Comments on: New interface + avatars = Totally reinvented Xbox 360?

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:04:29 +0000

It’s not a cover flow ripoff. It’s a passive feature in Windows Vista made active on the XBox 360. The author sounds like another “M$” hater that is just spouting the same stuff he’s heard before. You go, bro! Fight the man!

By: AlexNC

AlexNC — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:37:27 +0000

They are not ripping anyone off. They are just evolving the 2 year old Zune user interface. I think it will be a great, needed change for the Xbox 360. It’s nice to see Microsoft unifing this GUI throughout all their products. I think they call it the “Twist”. It works very well for the Zune, so I expect it to transition well over to the 360 too.

Though, the true revolutionary new feature is 8-player party system throughout all games (even old ones). This is going to revolutionize the way friends play games together. No more jumping around from server to server, sending invites each time, hoping to get on the same team, and hoping you don’t have some want-to-be hip hop star singing in their mics.

By: tgrass21

tgrass21 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:46:41 +0000

The avatars were hardly invented by Nintendo and even though it is kinda of lame for the 360’s hardcore fan base, the avatars really widen the appeal to casual gamers. The more people that buy 360’s the better, then MS has tons of capital to put into more exlusives and evolving Xbox Live even more.

The game show channel is actually very inovative as well as the Netflix deal. Renting and streaming movies over Xbox Live with your friends online is a pretty nice stride for social networking. Playing game shows with thousands of real people for real money and prizes is huge.

Paying 70% of profits to closet game designers that used XNA to create an Xbox Live arcade game…that’s pretty sweet too !