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Added by Ryan on Sept. 23, 2008 44 comments

You'll have to take a break from your sleepless search for Ice-T in Call of Duty 4 this coming Monday, as Microsoft announced this morning that in preparation for the divisive New Xbox Experience, Xbox Live will be offline for a full 24 hours on September 29. While this certainly suggests that the roll-out of the new dashboard business is imminent, there is no confirmation from Microsoft that this signifies the actual launch. I'm not totally sold on on all the avatar stuff, but I've seem the new dashboard in motion for myself, and it's pretty slick. I'm also very interested to see how well the play-from-hard-drive stuff works. The foolish optimist in me hopes we'll all find out come 12:00AM on September 30!

[UPDATE from Jeff]: Microsoft's Larry "Major" Hryb "Nelson" has gone ahead and pooped on Ryan's parade of foolish optimism and confirmed that this is prep work for the new 360 front-end, and that it isn't actually rolling out immediately after the service comes back online.

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44 Comments

selfdestroyer
on Sept. 23, 2008

I wonder how they are going to handle all the traffic from everyone downloading the updates if it is coming on the 30th. I sure it will bring the XBL network to it knees for a day or so.. hmmm

Endogene
on Sept. 23, 2008

wonder how long it will take before the first xbox mii that appears to have a penis as a face will show

Player1
on Sept. 23, 2008

Awesome news. I can't wait for this dashboard update.

Ironphist
on Sept. 23, 2008

Can't wait for this update.. hopefully I'll have my xbox back from red-ring fixing when the patch comes out

albedos_shadow is online
on Sept. 23, 2008

A whole day? I don't know if I can go a whole day without playing on Live...

Valdarez
on Sept. 23, 2008

I don't get the whole Wii wanna-be approach that M$ is now embarking on. Hardare failures aside, the XBox 360 experience has been hands down the best of the 3 consoles. Why mess with it?

killawogg
on Sept. 23, 2008

damn 24 hrs? there goes my live streak :(

DukeTogo
on Sept. 23, 2008

What they should do is background download while you're on before it goes live. Just a small bit that won't hurt your ping too much, then when it does go live you download the last few megs to complete it. That way the servers aren't bogged down by everyone on the launch day.

Much like how Blizzard handles it's patches.

Xelloss
on Sept. 23, 2008

@selfdestroyer

The update is usually less then a few mb. What brings Xbox Live down is when people make changes to there account or make new account like during Christmas. All those processes take up server resources, while bandwidth is usually distributed off site. So when the inhouse servers choke it messes everything else up.

Osiris
on Sept. 23, 2008

How come Microsoft always uses the word "Innovation" when they use things that have been done and seen before. Not saying this is anything bad, I'm very glad for the Xbox360 owners because it looks okay.. But it's far from innovative... Really.

mrsmiley
on Sept. 23, 2008

LOL poor Ryan. Well I'm still exited for the new update either way. :)

Gryphon
on Sept. 23, 2008

Erm, they announced quite some time ago that it would be out in November.

MrKlorox
on Sept. 23, 2008

@Gryphon: No they didn't. If they had, you could supply a source. What was said is that Fall ends in November, and therefore the update must be out by then.

@Osiris: Are you one of those people that stop paying attention once they see "avatar" and assumes that is the extent of the update? Tell me another console that lets you load the entire disc onto the hard drive... Really.

Lukeweizer
on Sept. 23, 2008

It's not coming out on the 30th, they're prepping for it. You people need to calm down.

LordAndrew is online
on Sept. 23, 2008

Ryan totally got pooped on. :)

RHCPfan24
on Sept. 23, 2008

What if I am trying to get the BIA: HH's achievement where I have to connect to live and play the game for 100 days straight?! Huh?

Actually, I am not getting the game for awhile but I am sure there are some people worrying about that right now.

JamesF
on Sept. 23, 2008

Another free game FTW!

Crono
on Sept. 23, 2008

I can't wait to import my Miis into my 360!

MasterSplinter
on Sept. 23, 2008

That is bullshit. I want the new dash already Larry!

John
on Sept. 23, 2008

No one can poop on Ryan's optimism and live to tell the tale. Watch out Larry!

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