E3: First images of the new Xbox 360 Dashboard

Microsoft has just released quality shots from their "New Xbox Experience."

[Boldy]

Looking at these screenshots, I am actually very excited for this update, especially being that they've only announced some of the new features.

[kewlkat007]

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[ILikeButter]

Yea I can't wait until they announce more features.

[legendkilla]

im sorta pissed off because i didnt buy a Wii.... i bought a damn 360.. i wonder if this is manditory?

[ILikeButter]

I think the avatars are stupid.
But the dashboard seems more clean and organized.
It looks like you can find everything quickly.

[KillaManiac]

I would of been excited IF I did not have those Mii(s) on the front and everywhere.

I wish there was a deactivate Mii option.

[xhairs9]

If you're so excited go buy a Mac Book, that's where the dashboard came from... hence why they say, "If you want to see the next version of Windows OS, look at the Mac now.".

[Jrome]

All apple does is copy what microsoft is going to do, give it a new name and implement it faster.
Just like they take touchscreen and make it look like it's their gift to the world.
Just like they take the iPod and make it look like it is the ultimate mp3 player, yet players with lower/similar price points are so much better.
Sigh. Just like they released the iphone 3G and made it look like they made it cheaper, when in fact they over charged for the iphone in the first place ROFL. Sigh. Blind fanboys.

Anyway, nice images $$.

[Kaneda]

Don't tell my the movies scrolling and games scrolling like itunes covers scrolling.. :)

[xhairs]

I'm sorry, but if that were true, #1 if Apple implemented it faster then there would be an immense amount of flaws with the product so obviously that's not true. But yet, when windows comes out, there's so many problems with it, you can see them posted EVERYWHERE. Not to mention, how can Apple copy what Microsoft is GOING to do if it hasn't been done yet? Wow, the blind fanboy comment seems to be directed at the wrong person here.

Apple's iPod paved the way for MP3 players, sure there are some now that are cheaper and just as good (considering I have a philips and not an iPod I agree, it's cheaper). However, it paved the way, it started the MP3 player craze. It's still a great MP3 player so stop wishing it wasn't, why else would there be a Zune if the iPod wasn't so great?

Touch-screen? When did Apple even claim that touch-screen was their gift to the world? The touch screen was an AWESOME addition so I don't get what you're complaining about. No they didn't create it, nor did they claim to create it, but they put it to use in an excellent way.

Why even bring up the price of these things? It's obvious that prices are way over dramatic on almost everything now days. About the only thing I find that has a reasonable price are LCD tv's.

[CaptainHowdy]

-Apple Cover Flow/XMB

-Home Avatars and Mii's produce in-bred retards

[Superfragilistic]

I like it, takes the best of Miis, iTunes & Home and fills it with a range of bonus features! :)

[Tomdc]

layout looks like a blocky xmb and the avatars are such a blatent copies of wii avatars! they even have that little meeting place like the wii does... sure they have taken it further with the groupin up with friends thing but its still shoddy. i prefer old layout.

[Common Sense]

Don't you mean Mii 2.

[dantesparda]

How i feel about this update. Right now I feel that the avatars make the whole thing look to kiddish. And i think it looks like they bit Apple to much again, and even the XMB. I'll reserve final judgement for when i see it for myself or see more of it. But right now, i dont know, but im leaning towards, "nah".

[ThanatosDMC]

Is it me or does the dashboard feel like the XMB now?

[MNicholas]

It's sad that Microsoft is screwing it's own userbase by going with cutsie Mii type "avatars". Microsoft's made a series of strategic mistakes and this could alienate the one market segment that identifies with the Xbox brand, the hard-core gamer.

[Egzekutor]

I prefer the current dashboard... its looks cool.

The new dashboard looks sh1t and looks like a fuking copy of PS XMB but with added colours.........

[outlawlife]

the current dashboard is still going to be there, its being integrated into the guide

[RonDeMuerte]

Why don't you just get it over with and buy Nintendo.........I'm sure this is all just gonna sit very well with their supposedly mature and hardcore audience....

[C_SoL]

......

[xhairs9]

More like Mii + Lego Indiana Jones/Bob the Builder/Dora the Explorer/Rollie-polie-olie.

[Rice]

Dude that was an awesome statement!!! bubbles

[Surfman]

Wow its even more gay. And it looks like the Wii. Good copy MS, youre good for that.

[ILikeButter]

"And it looks like the Wii"

How can a Dashboard look like a console? ;)

[GiantEnemyCrab]

This looks great as a first step. MS haven't revealed all the features and functions and how this will merge with the current dashboard.

The full video is on XBL if anyone wants to check it out.

Disgree?? WTF? Major Nelson on his blog states more feature announcements are coming in the following months. And you can view the video these screenshots were taken from on Xbox Live called "New Xbox Experience". What is there to disagree with?

[xhairs]

How can this be a great first step, but yet firmware 2.41 wasn't a great first step towards XBL? Interesting how when it's for YOUR console of choice it's a "great first step".

[Herbert tholdpervert]

you make me sad

[Solid_Snake666]

big time and it looks rushed wish ms took more time on it

[DevonTheDude535]

Mii channel, oh excuse me, 360 dashboard. Album flip from Itunes, whoops 360 dashboard again. Where does MS come up with all these great ideas?, oh yea they steal them from other companies, except online play, wait that was on the dreamcast!

[DevonTheDude535]

I like how people disagree with my comment, I am a 360 and PS3 owner and if you can't see that this is a rip off you might as well go back to your sippy cup, close your eyes, put your fingers in your ears and say la la la I cant hear you la la la. Reminds me of the Family Guy episode where they say that some people are stubborn like a mule, he ha he ha, even though the facts are clear. Mii avatars excuse me delete delete MS avatars, hope we don't get sued for ripping off another company.

[Dill-Schil]

seriously if you want a wii and u had a 360 well you got one! ha microsoft cant be a leader either and they want to win the console war well a little news for you crappy graphics or not wii already won the day it came out.

[uxo22]

It's the dashboard, which is only about 20 percent of what the console is. The wii can't play gears, and all the other games available for the 360. For those who thinks it's like a wii and don't own a 360 or a wii, then go ahead and get a wii. I'm sure you continue to feel the same way when gears 2 and all the other big titles come out.

I think it's kind cool, and from what I hear it's suppose to be optional. And I hope it is optional, because that would give some of you one less silly thing to whine about.

[f789790]

I think the problem is seeing this dashboard then flying into gears 2. It just wont feel right.

[FantasyStar]

I can't see the advertisements!! *heh*

[chrisnick]

i too prefer the older dashboard actually...alot more "normal" looking as opposed to this gamey looking, reversed xmb.

[qwertyuiopasdfghjkl]

One more reason not to buy a 360. Every announcement during their E3 is just another money garnishing scheme... NetFlix integration?! You have to be dumb paying for downloaded movies.

http://www.demonoid.com/

[Bombomb]

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Thugbot187]

not 100% sure but i read somewhere that Netflix customers would still be able to download for free, but it all depends on the subscription you have with netflix.

[Superfragilistic]

"NetFlix integration?! You have to be dumb paying for downloaded movies."

You have to be dumb to not realise it's a free addition for all Live Gold members?!

[tojfs7931]

for stealing movies.

[omodis420]

Your dumb for not downloading movies.
I see I want I get. Trust me there are enough mass heards of sheep to keep the entertainment industries a float. So I say go ahead and make that tiny dent in their pocket lining.

[PJF_Josh]

i like that it appears as though we'll be losing all the ads that take up a third of each blade.

i like the cleaner look to the whole thing.

i hate those friggin' avatars. man they look dumb.

and what happens to the gamer pics that were sold... and are still being sold... i don't see them anywhere on those screens. money down the drain? that actually kind of annoys me because i bought one gamer pic pack (xevious) so i could use the same pic on the ps3 and 360 (the solvalu from xevious) now that's gonna disappear on the 360??

[Bombomb]

don't have 360's or xbl....

jokers...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[HerBieScrogg]

AND TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL!!! Microsoft never sleeps!!!!

[GiantEnemyCrab]

I hope you own a Nintendo because Sony has absolutely no room to talk with their FW 2.4 basically feature for feature rip-off of Xbox Live.

How are those trophies and custom soundtracks or in-game XMB? Or how is that eerily familiar to Second Life HOME doing?

[xhairs]

So how's your "in the movies"? Quite like Eye Create eh? How are your Mii's? I bet Bob the builder is pretty pissed right about now. Don't even start with the copying bull sh!t.

[DevonTheDude535]

Um you obviously didn't know that Nintendo stole the motion controller idea from Microsoft and made it better. Ever heard of a PC control from 97' called the Sidewinder Freestyle pro. It was the FIRST motion sensitive controller on the video game market. You know why they excluded it from the 360 launch and I quote from Microsoft "it is an unproven technology", sounds like what they said about HDMI (it was pointless in their opinion).

[beavis4play]

does ms ever have an ORIGINAL idea?

[Bucky Sligo]

Achievements, which Sony copied btw...

[Common Sense]

of achievement system on the PS2?

Honest question.
Honest answers.

[25]

do we have to get this or can i stick with my old display?

[TheExecutive]

its like a ninetendo XMB.

[GUNS N SWORDS]

seems like a really nice change, i also think you get to keep your old dash board, this seems more like an extension of the original (I hope so anyway)

[Close_Second]

...The New 360 Dashboard = Itunes + PS3 Interface. Mind you, they have switched the axis for the new interface so you scroll left to right for the games and not up/down like you do on the PS3.

This is a much needed overhaul from the garish interface that the 360 currently sports. However, I'm not a fan of the new (Wii) avatars as they are aimed solely at kids or guys who are too in touch with their feminine side.

[Lord Vader]

wrong post

[DevonTheDude535]

@xhairs

Mac OS, whoops, Windows!
Dreamcast button names and colors and triggers, whoops, original xbox.
Dreamcast Online play, whoops, xbox live

Where do all these great ideas come from?

I'll give MS one, they came out with motion controls back in 97' (sidewinder freestyle pro on pc)

[n00bzRtehgey]

this looks awesome. but i don't want it to be like Play House where they nickel and dime you to death for stupid clothing and useless sh1t like that which Sony is trying to do (if that vaporware ever comes out. at this rate, it will come out AFTER M$'s update LOL, sad.). it's all about money. whatever, I guess.

[Xlll]

Says the guy that pays to get online with his console. Then pays again to download content with it. Oh lets not for get all the add-ons and the MS only over priced HDD that is the only HDD 360 can use.

[n00bzRtehgey]

u must be talking to someone else, cuz I bought my 360 on launch date and have only paid for the amazing Live service, and some DLC like shivering isles for oblivion or awesome arcade games which you still don't have LOL. you get one new arcade game once every month or so and it's crap LOL.

awww, butthurt droids

[Common Sense]

Sony and Nintendo does something, You bash it.
Microsoft does it, it's the best thing is sliced bread.

[Bill Gates]

AHAHAHAHAHHAH......This shiet is such a JOKE.....AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA

bobble headed avatars....AAHHAHHAAHHAH
This is like the poor mans version of Home, but without the HOME..........AAHHAHHHAHAHHA

[blazing01]

xbox is really trying to take out nintendo wii first the darwin (see video) n now this. i like both system thought but does xbox have to do that

[InMyOpinion]

The Darwin isn't made by Microsoft. It's a third party peripheral coming to bothe the 360 as well as the PS3.

[TrenchaunT]

I was incredibly depressed when they announced the avatars and the new dashboard. The avatars, besides being a blatant rip of miis, look terrible, stupid, and silly. And their animations are worse than their looks. The gamerpics were good enough, and you could choose cool kick-@ss characters from games. I don't want to make an avatar that looks like nerdy ol' me, and with such cartoony designs I can't imagine making an avatar that looks any less nerdy than myself.

Plus, the blades interface was perfect imho. It was simple, straight-forward, and my fiancee (who is not very willing to work hard to figure out a new computer program) figured it out easily.

On the bright side, I already have a Netflix subscription and my fiancee loves streaming TV episodes using it (because it's so slow to get TV shows one disc at a time by mail). We'll both get good use out of that new feature.

[InMyOpinion]

The blade interface will still be in there, by pressng the guide button. I don't think the new interface will be any harder to figure out.

[Solbadguy]

is what happens when copying from others goes wrong.

[n00bzRtehgey]

u mean like sh1tasses?

[Citizen Cook]

Do we each get our own home to decorate?

[FCOLitsjustagame]

Meh, I dont really need the gimicks but whatever, its not like a spend a ton of time in the dashboard anyway.

[KRUSSIDULL]

Where the are my Gamerpic and Theme OMG this suck lets hope this is optional i like it how it is now.

[Kirstenlottesovs]

I don't like it.. i don't like it at all!
Sometimes when looking at my ps3, i actually admired the design values of the old Dashboard. It looks so simple, it has nice colors, and its easy browsing through..
This just looks ugly.. Like some crappy web javascript chat.

[EaziG]

Firstly, it looks crap.
Second, its a copy of the Wii avatars.
Third, It looks crap.
Fourth, how is this rubbish supposed to stand up to the PS Home?
Fifth, What a waste of time, its crap

[MetalProxy]

/shakes hand

[MaximusPrime]

LMAO, first "lips" now this.

4 words "crap, crap ,crap, mega-crap."

Xbox 360 is in major ruin.

[foodbox]

ha! feelings hurt?

Did sony invent Karaoke now?

You people are just ridiculous. Go! Go! Sony Defense Force!1!

[jollygoodchap8]

I think I liked the dashboard better. Is this optional? Can we keep the dash if we wanted to?

The Miis is a pretty dumb idea...I thought it was dumb when they were introduced in the Wii and thought the home thing was dumb too.

It's kind of funny watching some of these hypocrites that used to say Home and Miis were dumb...only to turn around and say that they love the whole idea of Miis and stuff.

[N4G-IS-PS3-FANBOY]

XBOX 360 IS TAKING OVER, THATS ALL THERE IS TOO IT! AND I AM LAUGHING AT SONY FANBOYS SOOOO MUCH!

THYE HAVE NOT STOLE ANY DESIGN FEATURES FROM ANY COMPANY! XBOX ARE PIONEARS IN DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY! EVERYTHING PLAYSTATION AND NINTENDO HAS IS MADE BY MICROSOFT! WE WOULD STILL BE IN THE FU*KING DARK AGES IF IT WAS NOT FOR MICRSOFT! NOW GO SUCK ON THAT YOU STUPID PS3 FU*KS! BECAUSE YOU LOT ARE REALLY REALLY STUPID IN THE FU*KING HEAD!

THE OLD DASHBOARD IS INTERGRATED INTO THE NEW ONE. BASICALLY THIS ALLOWS MICROSOFT TO HAVE MANY MANY MANY MORE OPTIONS THEN THERE ALREADY HAD! WHICH WAS ENOUGH BUT THEY JUST KEEP IMPROVING ON THE SYSTEM! AND ITS A FU*KING BEAST! END OF!

PS3 IS IN THE FU*KING DUMPS! THATS IT......PS3 IS DEAD! ALWAYS HAS REALLY!

XBOX AND MICRSOFT HAS THIS E3 SHOW BY THE BALLS! THE XBOX IS DOMINATING THE SHOW GUYS, GET USED TO IT!

[Common Sense]

Avatars=Mii?
Interface from Apple?
Online from Dreamcast?
Lips=Singstar?
Xbox live camera=Eyetoy?

Microsoft is a copier and if they can't copy it they buy it.

[why do droids cry]

id rather have windows 1 than that peice of sh1t 2.43

[djroberts]

That's sad. A wantabee home/Mii enviroment. It may be a positive if it works better than the sliders but it's obviously a cheap knockoff of the other consoles.

[Adamalicious]

I never thought that the original dashboard was particularly well designed - particularly from a usability standpoint. They have been tinkering with it here and there and but none of the updates have been significant improvements. This new one, on the other hand, actually looks to be even less user friendly, but I'll reserve final judgement until I try it out.

[Rhythmattic]

Get over it....

Its still a great games console.

[pshizle]

reminds me of the vista switch between windows

[Morgue]

Not very original. Looks like a mix of Netflix, iTunes and the Wii. If you can't beat em' , join em'

[why do droids cry]

12 inches deep but ya know you droids take it both ends. 1 end your giving sony a BJ and the other you are getting a pouding from microsoft

[The Mikester]

My friend has a 360 and he's going to be really happy to hear about this.

[MetalProxy]

What is this lol? I never thought I would say this but I like the old look better. I sure hope this isnt mandatory :(.

[Lord Vader]

Meh, looks like Vista with 3-D Mii's to me. I hope they make some evil avatars, those guys are too cute & cuddilly for me. Sorry, Lord Vader cannot spell "cuddilly".

[Herbert tholdpervert]

looks like sh!t

[KeenanTheSavage]

Well at least the dashboard is a little neater and cleaner.

[FFXI101]

It's the idea combine Wii/Mii & PS3/Home

[Tmac]

Slogan: "This is what we do, we steal idea's, ONLY ON XBOX 360©"

[JokerSGS]

I never knew why people liked the dashboard before but this update is actually cool.

[LinuxGuru]

Wow, what a blatant rip-off of Nintendo Miis....screw Microsoft, lol.

[Solid_Snake666]

my bad just a rip off then again what does M$ have that isnt a rip off bought product can you name a game that comes from M$ Studios??? please do

[PimpHandHappy]

so cute

[zonetrooper5]

Just for you guys to know, you don't have to have an avatar you can still use your gamerpic and themes still work btw. Second, you when you press the guide button you will still have the blade dashboard there so you get the best of both worlds in a way.

[Kingshadowhigh]

I can't stop laughing.

[whoknew]

i LOVE Microsoft sooooo much I love u BILL!

Droids ...... sigh it never ends..

[Product]

man..how bout sony copying the analog thumbstick from nintendo.No body mentions the old.Everyone is a copier.Or the sixaxis?or home?Hell even Nintendo filed for a motion controls patent back when the n64 was around and even then they prolly werent the first to think of it.

[Fux4Bux]

I like the new features they're adding but that just looks absoulutely horrible.

[PSWe60]

Very original Bots,

XMB + Mii = M$ EPIC FAILURE

And you PUTO Bots accuse Sony of stealing ideas?

First M$ copies the PS2 console, then pays off developers and claim that they came at their own will, then copied Sing Star for the PS3 and now they copy to create this.

What's next? Copy Blu-Ray and call it Aqua-Ray Disc?

3rd60 fails and you fools STILL GET OUT SOLD!!

And X-Box 3rd60 couldn't even get FFXIII in the one territory where it would make a difference, Japan.

[ROCCOZILLA]

ill take HOME anyday over those gay little wii avatars.what a crappy trade off FFVIII for wii avatars,LMAO........PLAY B3YOND waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ay B3YOND!!

[The Milkman]

As far as I have seen this will not beat Homes features. But there's more to see from this dashboard before I can make any comment like that. This will definitely give the dashboard a boost and the Netflix streaming sound pretty cool so far too. I still believe Home will help the ps3 online fun. But these delays and problems with it are hurting it some.

Microsoft is doing a great job at keeping their fans faith "Such as me ^^". Each E3 has been great this is one of the best compilations of announcements I have seen so far.

[TheTimeDoctor]

why did microsoft lower itself to the wii. we just need to ride out this very long fad and everything will return to normal.

[miles-prower]

hahahaaaa freaken stolen ideas
i will bet on that the xbox360 miis will kill a dozens
of consoles just in the release
day

[nintendojunkie28]

What ???....run that by me again

[wangdiddy82]

which isnt bad but it looks way childish.. I dont know about this new dashboard for gamers.. This is more for little kids who play the wii..

Home is where its at on the ps3.. Home will blow all of this out of the water..

[nintendojunkie28]

Maybe...if it ever comes out.

[Infernus]

In the Autumn, that release date has already been announced a few weeks ago. Many expect an October release.

[Infernus]

It looks like the guys over at the MS 360 department sat round a table and one suddenly said "Hmmm, what about using the XMB and turning it sideways to make it less obvious that we've copied it, then add in avatars just like those on the Wii? Sound good?"

That's basically what this is, an XMB-Mii intergration by MS, the menu is just like the XMB slider-menu just turned 90 degrees with Mii's included. Of course imitation is the greatest form of flattery so MS has basically just said Sony and Ninty have better interfaces than theirs.

[ScyPhi]

I agree that the Avatars are a bad idea, but I have yet to understand the constant comparison to Sony's XMB. It looks to me like the dashboard layout is a version of Vista's Window Switcher. I'm sure a Mac user could also confirm that OSX has a similar feature for changing windows.

[djtek184]

gay.