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Xbox 360 Getting a 3D Dashboard Make-Over?

Kotaku Writes:

"The rumored Xbox 360 Spring Update might not have hit yet, but we know something big is in the works for the console's dashboard.

How big? Well besides the gi-normous list of rumored updates we posted about back in May we're now hearing from a number of sources that the Live dashboard is going to be getting a second interface option, one that will use the yet-to-be announced motion controller to navigate."

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Published: 544 days 13 hours ago | Rumors | Xbox 360
 
 

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predator - 544 days 13 hours ago
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doh!!! now i will have to get the rumored motion controll as that sounds cool as hell
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green - 544 days 13 hours ago
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I know Microsoft has something up their sleeves concerning live especially since there was no spring update.Exactly what it is will be a mystery till E3.

What Kotaku is reporting sounds really interesting and if implemented properly with a good motion controller then i will be all up for it.
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meepmoopmeep - 544 days 13 hours ago
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did you get this feature Day 1 as well predator? It should have been on launch right?

lol, anyway, cool that platforms are evolving with new features.
more proof of a motion control i guess.
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General Pinky - 544 days 12 hours ago
1.3 - Well this is good news for me
something to look forward to in E3...yea..let the party begin...
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Jason 360 - 544 days 12 hours ago
1.4 - @1.2
Did you get XMB or Trophies on day 1, should have been at launch right?
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meepmoopmeep - 544 days 12 hours ago
1.5 - Jason360
lol, take it easy, i'm referencing a post he made in the past.
you wouldn't understand my comment unless you've read it.

i never said anything about Day 1 stuff on the PS3.
i think it's great that there are updates and features coming on all platforms.

BTW. XMB is the OS, that's a Day 1. the others, no.

EDIT: i'm not talking about In-Game XMB. But XMB is the OS.
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spandexxking - 544 days 12 hours ago
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i wonder how the 360 would handle it? its already laggy with the current dashboard let alone a 3d one!
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power of Green - 544 days 12 hours ago
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Now I will also be getting the motion controller(Is Motion tech the game changer MSFT was talking about?).

The next update will be so grand MSFT will have to make user guide video's and release them for download(why do you think Sony has been annoncing all these mondane features years old for *desperate attempt to steal MSFT's thunder*.

@1.2, If this is true MSFT will be the comapany pioneering the 3D interface on consoles, what you said doesn't make any sense MSFT did not wait for Sony or Nintendo to test the waters with this idea making sure it is successful before they implement it.
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Jim Crowslaw - 544 days 10 hours ago
1.8 - @meepmoop
get out while u still can....theyre goin to tear u up in here. but ima giv Jason, Crab, POG and a few others some bubbles. Eventhough i love Sony to death, the majority of Pro-MFST fans make great arguments and i will hate to see the voiced muted by bubbles deletion just cuz of some sony fanboy.
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JVIDICAN - 544 days 10 hours ago
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"3d interface on consoles"
....HOME? 0_o
edit: it sounds great but wouldnt having to use motion controls to navigate the dashboard and then have to switch to the 360 controller for games get annoying after a while?
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DontH8DPlayaH8DConsl - 544 days 10 hours ago
1.10 - the same thing was "RUMORED" on the ps3
like 4 months ago to be coming out this year using the pseye or the six axis controls. It was called playstation ice or something like that.

Kotaku Writes:

"The rumored Xbox 360 Spring Update might not have hit yet" Isn't it summer now? I thought microsoft said there would be no spring update. They're trying to devert attention from 2.4
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Silver360 - 544 days 10 hours ago
1.11 - quick question
What is with all the hate going on here. especially from those that don't have a 360 or a PS3? That is trifling. Anyway I am looking forward to both 2.40 and the 3d dashboard. Good times for those that own both systems.
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power of Green - 544 days 4 hours ago
1.12 - Supposedly
Here's the surprize follow up to this post.

http://n4g.com/xbox360/News...
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LJWooly - 543 days 23 hours ago
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PoG, while this is really cool and all, wouldn't Sony be the ones pioneering the 3D interface on consoles? Just throwing that in there...
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u got owned - 544 days 13 hours ago
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3d Dashboard sounds pretty cool, well see in a couple of weeks, cant wait. E3 is around the corner. I think this year is gonna be huge for MS. i mean it has to...
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Condoleezza Rice - 544 days 13 hours ago
3 - Interesting
Very interesting...
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NO_PUDding - 544 days 11 hours ago
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The fact Kotaku report it after all the 2.40 stuff?

Yes I find that interesting too, maybe they felt they needed to diffuse the whole, PSN is now almost equal to LIVE and free.

Anyway, even if it isn't, it's a weird thign to speculate about, why not speculate about great games coming, I think the dashboard update (or lack of it) is just something people will have to put up with.
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plenty a tool - 544 days 6 hours ago
3.2 - no pudding
i think your being more than generous with the almost as good as live. the psn is getting there, but it aint almost as good. the thing is, and something alot of sony fanboys dont realise, people with 360's dont go mad for updates because everything you lot are getting now, has been in the xbox since 03 and the 360 since launch.

all this "omg wow it's like totally amazing 2.40" is nothing to 360 owners, and just means your getting some features that hve been around since 03 as i've already said.
3.3 Bloodwar | 543 days 18 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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OOG - 544 days 13 hours ago
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AH well e3 is soon enough... so we will know everything then
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steck67 - 544 days 13 hours ago
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Still a rumor, hope it turns out true though, it sounds awesome.
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Ghoul - 544 days 13 hours ago
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a new chance to "unclutter" that thing of a interface, the dashboard isnt particular bad but definatly faar from good. lets see if its true and how they make it couse vistas "3d" interface is fancy but useless
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PS360WiiRocks - 544 days 7 hours ago
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Are you mentally challenged? The dashboard is one of the easiest things to navigate their is, it's not hard or "far from good"
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Ghoul - 544 days 2 hours ago
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no im not the xbox dashboard is easy to use but not good designed,

btw thanks for your immature insulting reply to my opinion, reported...
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miganda - 544 days ago
6.3 - oh. ok.
and your saying this compared to what? ps3's dash? they both get the job done. but people always have to add that little jab about the other consoles good news. why can't it just be what it is, 360 dashboard news. why does the ps3 have to be better. or the 360 dash is cluttered, or this and that. when i turn on my ps3 or 360 the last thing i think about is, gee this is really not that good for navigating. petty ass people on this site. it's making me sic.
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Ghoul - 543 days 23 hours ago
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wtf miganda,
did i mention the ps3 or sony in any sentence ?

NO

i haven't in fact its you bringing it in. wow you guys are getting better and better at insulting and fanboing without someone giving you a reason.
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Testo - 543 days 21 hours ago
6.5 - @Ghoul
I don't know why these 2 are attacking you.

I also reported PS360WiiRocks, sorry man. Most of the time your comments are spot on but that one is offensive.

@ miganda,

He never mentioned the PS3 in his post, WTH are YOU on?
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PS360WiiRocks - 543 days 20 hours ago
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here let me rephrase. Your opinion is a obviously one sided comment with no knowledge of the 360's interface. THAT is why i said what I said, anyone who thinks the 360 is "cluttered" doesn't know what their talking about. It's 5 labeled blades for gods sake.
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Ghoul - 543 days 19 hours ago
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i have a 360 (for 2 years now) and i do know what im talking about, as i said before and maybe THIS time you listen to me

the 360 dashboard is EASY to use but bad designed, and with ms changing the buttons positions on the go with the firware updates i find it very cluttered to many submenus to many colors and graphics around the typo.

interface is easy to use and bad on the eyes

GOT it this time ?
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ASSASSYN 36o - 544 days 13 hours ago
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Sounds pimp I am all for the new control style because if I don't like it the old style WILL work.
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XephyrNesion - 544 days 13 hours ago
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it would be pretty sweet.
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Kareem - 544 days 13 hours ago
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Sounds fricking awesome, I hope it turns out to be true.
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squallsan - 544 days 13 hours ago
10 - Sounds pretty
damn awesome but lose the damn gimmicky controller. Thats a messed up way to force people to get ure Xmote. Just lemme use my 360 comtroller.
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JokesOnYou - 544 days 13 hours ago
10.1 - well...
if this is true I'm sure the "new controls" will be OPTIONAL, thus those who are interested can buy them, those who think its "gimmicky" can continue using the standard 360 controller.

JOY
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power of Green - 544 days 12 hours ago
10.2 - ^^^
Despite MSFT's rumored motion controller gamers need to be excited about MSFT's motion technoligy in general.

I remember Bill Gates saying they were intrested *or* working on motion that was so advanced it can read body movement in detail and it could scan objects as gaming tools vs just the motion controller.

A real earily test as I call it was Totemball.
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ThanatosDMC - 544 days 10 hours ago
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Ummm... but the 360 doesnt have the PS3 Eye...
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P4KY B - 544 days 5 hours ago
10.4 - the rocky and bullwinkle xbla game used the camera
you could move the character by waving your arms.

But it was C**P
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GiantEnemyCrab - 544 days 12 hours ago
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Then it will be, just you wait for FW update 3.5 where Sony will just copy all the ideas and their army will claim it superior and that Sony was actually working on it since 2004 or something.

=)

I really hope this is true. The dashboard could use a facelift and some new innovations. Not getting my hopes up at the moment.
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Jason 360 - 544 days 12 hours ago
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LOL Crab, sooooo true. Sony's approach is always "lets wait and see what Microsoft is doing"
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thehitman - 544 days 12 hours ago
11.3 - jason
MS approach is lets beat out sony and hope we do better since we out first. Then Sony goes ok be first we just make better.
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Vito_corleone - 544 days 12 hours ago
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Thank you mister Jason 360. Your ignorance and stupidity made me crap my pants in laughter. I salute you.
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LJWooly - 543 days 23 hours ago
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Lol at Irony Day '08 over here.
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Sayai jin - 544 days 13 hours ago
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Yup, this should be a nice update. I have really enjoyed watching how XBL has grown and tweaked itself into what it is today. I am still undecided about the motion controller, but time will tell. Another thing that is neat, is that look how much companies are listening to what the gamers want. I am remember a few months after the 360 launched gamers wanted to be able to do other things while they downloadedmovies, demos, etc; along with a few more highly wanted tweaks. Walla, a few months later there was an update. And now to see the 2.4 update for the PSN, these companies are really listening to the consumer. Keep it up...
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spandexxking - 544 days 12 hours ago
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tweaked? dont you mean clogged? all of these new updates just seem to make my 360's dash very laggy.
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Sayai jin - 544 days 12 hours ago
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No, tweaked. I personally do not have laggy dashboard. When is the last time you have been on XBL or the last game you played on the 360.

Edit: Oh, I see I just read through your bio and I understand where you comment came from.
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spandexxking - 544 days 11 hours ago
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good for you. but personally mine (and others) is/are, but its ok i just put it down to crap hardware

EDIT: oh then you'd realize that i have a 360 so i think im in a good enough position to criticise it. although i will give it credit where it is due
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pumpkinpunker - 544 days 11 hours ago
12.4 - @spandexxking
you're the only person I've heard complain about the dashboard being laggy. maybe your internet service provider sucks?
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spandexxking - 544 days 11 hours ago
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why would my isp make a difference? their two completely unrelated things.
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