TechRadar Review: Microsoft Xbox 360 with New Xbox Experience

zoydwheeler - 399 days 15 hours ago

I cannot actually believe some people have been griping and complaining about the shift to an avatar based UI... I don't CARE who 'invented' it or came up with the idea originally... it is just BETTER...

This is commonly known as HOW PROGRESS WORKS.

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green - 399 days 15 hours ago

bubbles for that comment.

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PirateThom - 399 days 15 hours ago

I have NXE and I'm looking for a way to revert to the blades. I hate the iTunes interface, which is what the NXE interface basically is.

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Montrealien - 399 days 15 hours ago

I have NXE and I never want to revert back to the blades. I Love the iTunes interface, which is what the NXE interface basically is.

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Montrealien - 399 days 15 hours ago

Don`t worry Socom, I`m sure some (bias) Sony site will have a perfect rewview score for home when it comes out, and someone will scream and cry that the site is (biased), just like you are doing..

And, the, wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, and the wheels on the bus go round and round, all the way, to.....town.

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ThanatosDMC - 399 days 12 hours ago

I agree, but like Home people will complain even though they dont own the console.

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power of Green - 399 days 11 hours ago

I'm not going to sleep untill I download it so I don't have to deal with the traffic later on durring the 19th.

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EVOLVED - 398 days 19 hours ago

stayed up and it was worth it. right now i'm uploading gears of war 2 to the hard drive. diffently made the whole xbox experience way better. have to say it was a good move by M$.

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zoydwheeler - 399 days 15 hours ago

Did not invent cartoon men, despite what Mr Iwata might believe in his funny little brain.

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Calcio - 399 days 15 hours ago

Not like Nintendo invented avatars...

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dem0n - 399 days 15 hours ago

I think RARE has proof that they came up with it first, anyway.

EDIT: Not really proof, but they did release a statement.

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed...

But really, avatars(not the 360 kind) have been around for a long time. What do you call the pictures beside our names? Avatars, Miis, and the HOME characters expand that direction.

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mchax - 399 days 15 hours ago

Whatever. Still smells like Wii to me

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Bleem360 - 399 days 15 hours ago

@ RIGMASTER

WTF? Seriously - WTF?

"With the 360 selling pretty much as poorly as the first Xbox worldwide"

Before you post comments like this, you really should do a little research otherwise you just look stoopid.

Xbox sold 20m units during it's 4 year lifespan.
Xbox 360 has sold 25m units in 3 years.

Please get facts right next time!

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Rigmaster - 399 days 15 hours ago

The Xbox sold 25 million units worldwide in 3.5 years from November 2001 until it went out of production in June 2005.

The Xbox 360 has sold around 21 million in 3 years from November 2005 until the present. With 22 million shipped according to Microsoft to the beginning of this month.

The 360 only shipped 2 million new 360s worldwide for the entire first half of 2008 according to Microsoft's own numbers.

The 360 might be able to eek out a tiny bit more consoles by the 3.5 year mark.

The numbers are the numbers and the 360 is selling at a virtually identical rate as the first Xbox.

I don't know where the hell you got 25 million 360s. Hell even the massively inflated vgchartz 360 sales numbers aren't close to that.

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Bleem360 - 399 days 15 hours ago

Like I said already Rigmaster - do your research before posting utter garbage.

http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

[EDIT] Even I don't trust VGChartz - wash your mouth out with soap

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Rigmaster - 399 days 14 hours ago

http://www.gamesindustry.bi...

2.2 million consoles for the quarter. Right there in Microsoft's own quarterly report. Add that on to the 20 million they had shipped according to the previous quarterly report and as of the end of September 2008 the 360 has SHIPPED:

22 million worldwide.

@Bleem360,

In the future to avoid making a fool of yourself avoid getting your sales numbers from a damn gaming site quoting what someone predicts they are going to sell.

22 million shipped
with most likely around 21 million sold

The 360 is selling to the same people who bought the first Xbox.

Edit:

LOL! At someone claiming posting Microsoft own damn shipment figures is someone 'bashing' the 360...

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kewlkat007 - 399 days 14 hours ago

The only ones that worry the most are haters of the console...not a surprise.

This NXE cannot come soon enough...

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Montrealien - 399 days 14 hours ago

Rigmaster did not just join, he just created another account...

I wonder who he could be...

*rolls eyes*

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Bleem360 - 399 days 13 hours ago

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I was thinking that earlier - problem being is that Nasim can't even put a sentence together, at least this fella can manage that.

;)

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Rigmaster - 399 days 13 hours ago

So...

A whole bunch of babble and the reality is the same.

The Xbox sold 25 million in 3.5 years - Nov. 2002 to June 2005 when it went out of production.

The Xbox 360 has shipped 22 million in 3 years. With the usual million or so sitting on shelves worldwide giving roughly 21 million sold in 3 years.

Xbox sales rate == Xbox 360 sales rate

The only way the 360 will outsell the Xbox is if Microsoft doesn't pull the plug on the system next year. It might be able to eek out 27-8 million worldwide by the end of next year.

Fantasy sales numbers always lose out to Reality.

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ezlife - 399 days 12 hours ago

it not about hardware, its about software. does anybody know what $59.00x15,000,000 user is , because thats what ms makes a year. not even counting DLC. sony and nintendo combined can't come close.

VIVA LA LIVE

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DJ - 399 days 9 hours ago

At E3 2005 during their respective conferences, and both had the guide/home button in the center.

If anything, they copied DirecTV. =P

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Traveler - 399 days ago

Ringmaster, you are full of crap.

The 360 is set to surpass the 25 million mark by the end of this month.

Joystiq:
http://www.joystiq.com/2008...
"Following October's sales boost, Xbox 360 is now poised to do in three years what its predecessor, Xbox, failed to do in its four short years in production. "By the end of this month, we expect our global installed base to reach 25 million units, surpassing that of the first Xbox," declared Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division CFO Mindy Mount at yesterday's BMO Capital Market conference in New York. Mount was confident that this milestone was "only the start," though, since historically, more than 75 percent of a console's total sales come after its price has dropped to $199 or below."

You are also completely wrong as to when the original Xbox was released. It was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Europe and Australia. Not November 2002 as you stupidly claimed.

All of your talk was complete nonsense.

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Dread - 399 days 15 hours ago

have u ever heard of a metaphor?

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dem0n - 399 days 15 hours ago

It's not dead. :P

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P4KY B - 399 days 15 hours ago

Have you not seen Tron?

Every frag you get is another innocent electronic life form dying

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Calcio - 399 days 15 hours ago

We'd have to change it from RROD to Red Ring of Fail if we can't say it's alive...

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falviousuk - 399 days 15 hours ago

yup its called xbox live !

I expect you meant can we use it to browse web pages which is just one part of the net.
No there is no browser and thank goodness for that. I use my games machine to , you know play games.
I use my computer to browse the web. And both of them live happily together in synergy <--- new buzz word for next year

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Diamondwolf - 399 days 14 hours ago

So you won't be using your "games machine" to stream netflix, look at pictures, watch movies, download trailers, watch and record tv programming?

Sorry guys, but the Xbox is more than a games machine now, kinda like another system I know about.

Xbox does gaming better, granted, but you guys calling it a "games machine" while Microsoft is working hard to turn it into a media hub is very schizophrenic on your part

On topic: Good job MS, can't wait to check out and make up my own mind on the NXE. Pictures and reviews don't do it for me, need hands on time :)

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falviousuk - 399 days 14 hours ago

@5.2 nope i wont
There is a big world outside of the good ol US of A where we dont get such things as netflix. Dont assume everyone on here is American

I dont watch movies on it either as again the service here (UK) is piss poor and i assume the rest of Europe is the same, again big world outside of America.
I us my appleTV and itunes for all my movie/tv downloading. Far better service at the moment.
No i dont look at pictures with it, again i have my pc and if i want my apple tv to do that. so yes my 360 is just used as its main purpose, for gaming

yes i know the machine is capable of much much more, but that only applies to America. If the rest of the world got the same level of service you guys do then I probably would use it for the video service but until MS get their act together then its just a games machine to moe

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Diamondwolf - 399 days 12 hours ago

Yes, I know there is a big world outside of gaming but what is Microsoft pushing with this NXE? What is their marketing goals and what are they telling everyone about the features that you can do with NXE, that's what I was pointing out.

Now basically what I got out of what you said is since the only thing you can do is play games, it's a gaming machine. Once you have access to the other features that the Xbox offers then it's more than a gaming machine.

Not even you can make up your mind about what you want out of your system and you would rather have a bunch of peripherals that you have to switch to than have one machine that does it all? Why?

And no, this isn't a rant against Microsoft, it seems they are getting to the point where they can do it all but for a long time, people have been comparing Microsoft and Sony's box when they are essentially the same just people find little minute asinine reasons to bash one side and are completely hypocritical when it comes to yours. All of the people who said Microsofts box is a gaming machine are now loving the fact that they can do more when months ago, Sony "forced" all of those features to their userbase.

Same thing with Sony, people bashing achievements and whatnot until trophy's come along and it's gods gift to gaming, like Microsoft never had it.

360 does more than games. It's been doing more than games for a long time now. I admit I don't know how things work on the 360 in other countries but I know what Microsoft as a company is offering it's consumers here in USA and it's more than gaming but people still consider it a gaming only machine when it's not

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zoydwheeler - 399 days 15 hours ago

Yes of course I've heard of a fcuking metaphor you chimp. This just happens to be a very bad one.

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dem0n - 399 days 15 hours ago

Chimp? Is that a racist comment? Calm down, my friend. Our DNA may compare to apes, but we're human.

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Calcio - 399 days 14 hours ago

I'd say that in context 'chimp' as an insult is referring to brain matter rather than race. Bit like Lisa describing Homer as a 'baboon'

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zoydwheeler - 399 days 14 hours ago

It is a fairly common British put down. I have never considered it to be racist in any way, shape or form. If it comes across as such, then I apologise.

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Drekken - 399 days 15 hours ago

I am talking about the 360 eating my friends GeoW2 by someone bumping the stand the machine was sitting on. Messed it up so bad it is unplayable. But hey nothing to see here, it is all just slander, right?

They are reviewing the whole box, not just nxe.

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falviousuk - 399 days 15 hours ago

The new interface incorporates parry chat for up to 8 people. You can stay with the party no matter what games each one of them is playing.
This does not include video chat though, only for voice.

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ionize - 399 days 15 hours ago

I like the name...Very appropriate if you play Jimi Hendrix's "Are you Experienced" then at the end of the song, the XBOX ignites itself...Right now the 360 usually sets itself ablaze with no musical score what so ever!

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EVOLVED - 398 days 19 hours ago

I just hate you. you suck and so does your face. I always see you posting some dumn non intelligent sh-t. I think you shoved your sony so far up your a-- you can't even play games anymore. Yea I'm sure the bathroom is the place you spend alot of your time. If I was a ps3 fan I would be trying to shut u up or change ur pic. Something to show that atleast you have something going for you .

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ionize - 399 days 15 hours ago

Just come out of the closet already....we all know you smoke tubed steak cigar, smothered in underwear...nobody cares.

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Montrealien - 399 days 14 hours ago

you two should get a room, no really.

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RaxeK - 399 days 12 hours ago

If PS3 had a d!ck it'd be in your mouth that's for sure. It's embarassing to be a gamer, fanbois like you make gamers look like fvcking retards. You gain nothing for cradling the b@lls of a gaming system.

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Kleptic - 399 days 5 hours ago

don't compare a direct rip off of Nintendo's little kid thing with Killzone 2...yeah, the game has taken a while...but I have been playing the multiplayer non stop for the past few weeks...and I guarantee you'll feel stupid for judging it come february...

and Home, who knows...yeah its taken forever too...but its something never even tried in a gaming community...the NXE isn't...its just douchey looking mii like things and a new vista like slide presentation of the blades...wow...color me impressed...actually, I am pretty surprised it took 4 months...

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Traveler - 399 days ago

If Killzone 2 ends up being amazing, good, I'll buy it and be happy. But that doesn't mean it suddenly demolishes everything on the 360. Not everybody even likes shooters. Gears 2 can stand next to any shooter--even teh shooter of the forever...Killzone 2...

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gamfreak - 398 days 23 hours ago

HAHAHAHAHA, jump in and drown with PRODS.

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Traveler - 399 days ago

Of course, they are programmed by the SDF central command to keep fighting to kill the enemy console no matter what. Logic does not compute with droids...they are programed with only one emotion: "hate". And only one directive: "destroy the Xbox 360 at any cost".

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Kleptic - 399 days 5 hours ago

please explain to me what type of argument you are trying to make...

it has taken sony, 1.5 (how exactly is an announcement at GC 2007 3 years ago?...douche) years to get to open beta since being announced...the beta will release with content sharing, customizable spaces, game launch rooms for 1st and 3rd party titles, game spaces for 1st and 3rd party titles, as well as all kinds of DLC for upcoming games...whether its videos, clothes, furniture, etc...most of which will be free...its supports clubs, which I guess are like clans, but a little creepier...and has big areas to like walk around in and stuff...

now I am not defending Home, as I know nothing of how good or bad it will be...for all I know it could be a monster pile of crap...but don't act like its not trying a bunch of new things...

the NXE is vista slides with mii's...that is literally it...you can't argue against that...that is all it is...and yeah, it still took 4 months...which is even more embarrassing...chances are the whole interface was done a few days after they started it, but wouldn't launch it until the normal fall update schedule for the 360...

so whatever...the NXE may be great compared to the blades...some already say they like the dashboard better...whatever...but admit that some things are a bit more ambitious than others...this NXE is an attempt to bring kids into the 360, something that it has struggled with so far...which is the exact reason it resembles nintendo's douchey mii's so much...you have no clue how funny it is to see you 'hardcore' gamers in here defending those...

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devilhunterx - 399 days 4 hours ago

Xbots arent known for their intelligence you know.

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Traveler - 399 days ago

Play Behind

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captainjy - 399 days 9 hours ago

Yeah, it's in the league called vaporware. The only thing you are developing in your bathroom is high use of lotion.

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devilhunterx - 399 days 4 hours ago

looks like someone didnt read the home 1.0 leak memo

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morganfell - 399 days 2 hours ago

They did develop it in the bathroom. One good push was all it took.

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Traveler - 399 days ago

"Home is on a hole"? Yuck! What kind of hole?

But I think you meant "Home is in a whole different league"...

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robotnik - 398 days 23 hours ago

The same could be said about you kid. Those arguments always make me laugh, like you were superior or something, piece of shyte.

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