Microsoft Introduces a New Xbox Home Experience

Starting today, a new Home experience is rolling out to all Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One consoles. This update is designed from player feedback and makes it easier to discover new games, rediscover games you already love, connect with communities, and create a more personalized experience.

[Jin_Sakai]

More controllers and UIs than games at this point. This is basically just a shrunken version of the current UI with a few tweaks.

[LOGICWINS]

I was excited to try out this "new dashboard" and didn't notice the difference lol.

[MrBaskerville]

I think having the library and store in the top is a big improvement and it seems to run better, feels lesd janky. Not a fan of the endless amount of stuff displayed if you keep going down. Same on ps5, but that's atleast mostly stuff related to the highlighted game. On Xbox it's everything from library stuff to ESPN apps.

[StarkR3ality]

Yeah I actually really like the new dashboard, plus you get to see more of your chosen background as well. Not groundbreaking but the ease of use and visual changes are nice.

[OptimusDK]

@jin You just couldn’t resist right. Always no games story. But hey that is changing very fast. Spew it while you can.

[CBaoth]

How so? With 68 billion committed to acquire ABK and Bethesda - what new games do you get to play?

Oh that's right nothing. Not one new game! Every game that's coming out was ALREADY in development for Xbox. That's how dumb xclowns are. Maybe they can buy Larian and force'em to port BG3 to the series G.

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

The irony is that my Xbot friends are always claiming I must be miserable with the UI of the PS5 (which has always been perfectly navigable)…. Meanwhile, Xbox is the one that feels the need to “improve” their UI every six months…

I guess it’s easier to tinker with a UI than make a decent AAA game.

[Profchaos]

Sony nailed the PS3 UI the PS4 was good but tbh ps5 needs work but it's leagues better than the xbox one / series

Or maybe I just miss the xmb of the ps3/p

[ModsDoBetter]

Yep PS5 UI is pretty poor compared to the XMB or PS4 layout. No folders or themes is just baffling.

[shadowT]

More Xbox UI updates than PS5 "stable" fixes :D

[gold_drake]

this looks more cluttered than before haha.
just with new tabs with clutter

[Jin_Sakai]

Wish they’d design a UI and actually put some character into it instead being cluttered with boring squares all over the place.

[shinoff2183]

It feels like a cluttered website.

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

Everyone wants to provide the 'Netflix experience.'

[purple101]

does it still have forced adverts like a couple year back during covid>??

[shinoff2183]

Not to bad that I noticed , but for the moment I've really just set it up, and checked grounded out.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Xbox has had more dashboards than a Chevrolet car lot. Got damn. Pick one.

Are they trying to catch up to controller releases?

[Tacoboto]

The most noticable thing is that Xbox's UI keeps doubling down on the failed Windows 8-10 UI elements.

The top bar isn't consistent with Game Bar on Windows.
Windows UI typically aligns menu and app options to the left hand side (as does the Xbox Store on Xbox and the Xbox App on PC).

Smaller squares with slightly rounded edges, yay I guess? But dang Team Xbox needs to get it together for some visual consistency and move away from design patterns that Windows moved on from years ago at this point

[Profchaos]

Still to many ads.

At least they are gaming related remember booting the 360 around 2007 and seeing ads for Doritos and mountain dew

[crazyCoconuts]

They advertise other games on your home page?

[Profchaos]

Yeah like play this game in gamepass.

[crazyCoconuts]

Can you disable the ads?

[darthv72]

...those were also gaming related.

[Profchaos]

Mountain dew and Doritos? From memory I also saw some NASCAR ads to but I found them inappropriate considering they were advertising on my then expensive Xbox 360 it was primarily because I had a US account in Australia at the time when I flipped back to using a Australian account i got more ads for cars like Toyota and such as we have strict laws against advertising junk food here

[ModsDoBetter]

All we need is for Sony to bring back the XMB and/or themes with a proper folder system like PS4 had.

Xbox make too many changes to the dashboard.

[anast]

I have never seen an entertainment company refuse to create entertainment. This is a phenomenon.

[OneLove]

Yes I like the new ui as well. Some nice improvements.

[Reaper22_]

I like the new UI. You can see more of your background. Microsoft is on a roll lately. Keep those innovations coming.

[CDbiggen]

Still hideous and soulless when booting it up today, just like Xbox has always been. Only got the Series S for emulation.

[ModsDoBetter]

I love how the narrative from the usual suspects has shifted from Redfall- wait, ReDfAiL was rushed and Xbox has to buy studios rather than
make games (*cough* Insomniac, Firspite, Bluepoint, Bungi- you get the picture *cough*) to the exaggerated statement that XbOx HaS mOrE CoNtRoLlErS aNd uI uPdAtEs ThAn GaMeS heuheuheu.

The opportunity for any actual discussion has long since been lost when all that any Xbox related article is filled with is comments from the same tired people with the same tired narrative.

Do they actually play games?

[__SteakDeck__]

Insomniac, Firesprite, Bluepoint were studios that closely worked with Sony for many years. They were like honorary 1st party studios. They never took any major IP’s from anybody like MS did. Also all Bungie games will remain multi platform. Don’t be an idiot.

[ModsDoBetter]

"Don't be an idiot"

Let me ask you, does being an edgelord behind a keyboard help you feel better about yourself? No need for that.

Also stop moving goalposts for Sony with your dumb double standards. B-b-but Sony worked with them. Sunset Overdrive? then the crying you all done over Bethesda forgetting the relationship with xbox and console exclusives like Morrowind. DoNt Be An IdIoT hurhurbur

[ApocalypseShadow]

You can't have discussions with bricks.

You didn't listen about paying for online. You were okay with broken systems and a brown box, you were okay with the always online DRM of 2013, you're fine with services and subscriptions over good game creation, you're fine that an almost 3 trillion dollar company makes games less than Nintendo. And, you're fine with them buying up their parties because they suck internally and refuse to put in the work like Sony and Nintendo.

Of course the discussion on games is closed when there's a large group of individuals who blindly follow all the negative things that Microsoft had brought to the game industry and you don't care.

As for the dash, they are still throwing ads in your face and you love that too. If Kinect would have survived, you would probably be fine with the targeted ads they were going to throw at you.

[ModsDoBetter]

That's a lot of assumptions for someone who doesn't know me? I love ads? I'm okay with DRM?

You ponies are unreal.

[Chevalier]

"same tired people with the same tired narrative."

Uhh so excuse yourself for the stupid excuses being made for Xbox? Why does Xbox even need more studios when they can't even manage to release games 3 years in? Weren't you talking about moving goalpost?! So why does Xbox get the pass when BOTH their competitors in Playstation and Nintendo release FAR more games with LESS studios might I add?

Such BS when you got your own stupid narrative on display. You may mock it, but, the truth still stands. Xbox actually does have more updates and controllers than anything else. That's FACT.

[ModsDoBetter]

Excuse myself?

You clearly don't know me, I am not team Xbox nor team PS. There's no excuse for Xbox's missteps as my comment history will show. And I absolutely haven't given xbox a pass in the slightest. Just calling out the pony show going on here aith all of the exaggeration.

Hardly anyone here is actually a gamer, it seems and it's truly telling when most xbox articles are flooded with ponies instead. Yet when PS had that blunder of a showcase, certain cigar smoking individuals were trying to get articles declined due to "beating a dead horse".

That also not fact. You know it. Such BS? Narrative? Pot meet kettle anyone?

[Chevalier]

Hit up IGN and go see the ridiculous amount of Xbox comments from their Xbox fans. The point I was trying to get at was that Xbox already had more studios before their recent purchase, 20+ years and far more resources. They can afford a $70 billion purchase then they can easily afford to just make games.

They could honestly have a 100 studios, but, they need someone to manage their studios and resources properly.

As for assumptions about you? Well you want to call people ponies then expect people to respond to your idiocy in kind. Can't take push back then stop calling people stupid shit then.

[ModsDoBetter]

That's a generalisation and not a personal attack. You made it personal with wild assumptions about me which, in fact, uses your own logic against you. You're basing your comment on Xbox fans on IGN, I'm baisng my comment on the amount of Ponies on N4G comment sections, see how that works? Idiocy.

Petty argument aside: I agree. They need better management but the point I'm making is that no matter what Xbox does, theh will NEVER please a fanboy with the goalposts always moving, notably in the comments on this site. "Release a game" *hi-fi rush releases to acclaim* "oh that's only a AA game and had no hype, xbox has no games" like they cannot win.

[Chevalier]

Making it personal? Sorry if you want to call people ponies then expect push back. If I call you an idiot then push back would be expected no? Don't expect respect if you don't give it. Whine somewhere else.

"NEVER please a fanboy with the goalposts always moving, notably"

You're making imaginary goalpost and cherry picking. You mention Hi Fi Rush for example. How often do these type of games release on Xbox? Not often enough. Even you agree they're not well managed. They're not consistent at all.

This isn't year 1 it's 20+. 3 years in and struggling to release games? Is that the fans fault? No. Xbox doesn't deserve respect because they simply don't do anything to deserve it. When they consistently release quality games like Playstation and Nintendo then your complaints would be warranted.

[ModsDoBetter]

Thanks for proving my points whilst exposing your blatant hypocrisy.

Me: uses a generalisation.
You: also uses a generalisation and then makes a personal attack claiming that it was in response to my comment. Really must've seen yourself in the pony comment, huh?

"Whine somewhere else" - I'm plenty entitled to my opinion. As are you, even though I disagree with some of your points and the way you make them, I do agree with some other points.

"You're making imaginary goalpost and cherry picking. You mention Hi Fi Rush for example. How often do these type of games release on Xbox? Not often enough"

Not at all.
MS has a poor showing: Ponies with pitchforks at the ready.
Sony makes a poor showing: Ponies working hard on damage control and to have articles taken down.

That's a goalpost movement and blatant hypocrisy. My fave example is NMS: had multiplayer printed on the retail packaging because Sean Murray lied so they covered it with a sticker. Redfall has a sticker advising about 60fps and this site goes into meltdown with article upon article. That's a hypocrisy, and when Ponies are called out they say "its years ago, it doesn't matter" yet you are more than happy to dig up the past when it suits your narrative. Case in point: "This isn't year 1 it's 20+." - that's a goalpost movement, nothing imaginary about it.

Furthermore, let's not exaggerate 20+ years. Sony lost the majority of the PS3 generation which, if I remember correctly ended when? 2013? Ah so 10 years ago? Yes? Xbox have dropped the ball with the Xbox One and since then have struggled to get people back but there's a lot of exaggeration here.

Also back to Hi-Fi Rush. People Whine, they don't release games. They release a critically acclaimed game and get shot down, just like yourself above "it's not enough". Nothing will ever be enough for any fanboys who only play or intend to play one platform. That's a fact. Pigs will fly the day that you, or a few of the other Blue Army on here actually can respect a critically acclaimed release without a "b-b-but".

[Chevalier]

"They release a critically acclaimed game and get shot down"

Again you're defending Xbox when it's their fault for not doing enough. Calling people Ponies doesn't change the fact that even Xbox fans are exasperated. I have owned every Xbox system up the to current gen. I have a huge 360 game collection. It's night and day what I have bought since then. That's Xbox dropping the ball. They have to give me and every person who owns an Xbox a reason to buy games.

As for this absolutely idiotic tirade your on. You make it sound like only Xbox gets unfair criticism. Please go read more comments here, IGN or wherever you want. You will see plenty of Xbox fans saying "Oh Playstation games are all 3rd person adventure games and that's all they do". It's an absolutely idiotic narrative.

Does Xbox get unfair criticism? Sure they do. What system doesn't? Every system gets unfair and fair criticism. Don't want any then too bad you can live in your fairy dreamland and pretend it doesn't happen then. You're narrow minded and live in lala land believing only Xbox gets unfairly treated.

Go ahead though name me a company with more money, more studios and more advantages all lined up. You can't. No studio even Embracer which owns like 200-300 studios don't have $70 billion at their disposal and spent over $80 billion in a decade.

Does Nintendo and Playstation have any of these advantages?! NOPE. Yet they both put out far more games and higher quality ones. Again Xbox has the odd ones here and there, but, no where near where they would be. Again both with fewer resources, fewer studios and the same amount of time available to them. So yeah cry your river somewhere else. Boohoo the company worth almost $3 trillion can't do what a company worth 1/10th can. Maybe come back to reality and the real world where if you don't do shit to earn your stripes then you shouldn't get them.

[badz149]

damn...they just straight up shove ads in your face like that ha?

[execution17]

Just wish I could turn off the ads for being a ultimate sub.

[Destiny1080]

what you see is what you get, four large boxes of ads

[TheTony316]

Looks more and more like the PS5 UI.

[Becuzisaid]

Same new dashboard hype every generation.

[Chocoburger]

(*eye roll*) Can't wait to see the new one they release next year. 🙄

[Doomster1971]

I miss folders, on the main screen, from the PS4. They were so simple & easy to set up. I named each folder by genre (rpg, racing, platform games etc). It was so quick and easy to use. On both my XSX & PS5, I have to scroll down a huge list to find what I want. It's a pain in the arse. Groups on Xbox & game list's on PS5 aren't nearly as good. To be honest, game list's on PS5 are useless. Mind you, we didn't get folders on PS4 until late on in the gen, so they may add it yet. At least that's my hope.