And my friends wonder why i have switched from my 360 as my main to my PS3 as my new main. At least with PS plus you don't see adds on the XMB and in the PSN store it is very easy to find out whats on special.
*unless you want to play buy arcade/indie games. You can launch them from the guide menu while playing another game. Not the best solution, but you can still skip the dashboard.
*unless you buy them at xbox.com (which is easier to search and find stuff on).
Oh, I love some dashboard whining. How hard is it to hit "my games" and choose the game you want? "I can't find anything!!" How? You scroll to "games", then choose Indie, Arcade or On Demand- it's not rocket science. People will bitch about anything, I swear...
I think the main complaint has been that every update has made the whole system slower and more cumbersome, and the guiding principle behind every single redesign has clearly been "how can we cram more ads onto the front page of this paid service?" Every update has made the interface worse.
Yeah, there are bigger problems in the world. But this is a website about games. And because the Internet is for bitching, it follows that there will be bitching about video games on a site such as this one.
No, I don't want to beta test this - but I would be A-OK if MS would simply make everything faster. Yes, the UI still sucks and yes, having to move four pages over to get to my games is horrid. But as it stands it still works well enough when flipping through things, it's just that flipping through things takes way too long.
No, I don't want to beta test this - but I would be A-OK if MS would simply make everything faster. Yes, the UI still sucks and yes, having to move four pages over to get to my games is horrid. But as it stands it still works well enough when flipping through things, it's just that flipping through things takes way too long.
well you can tell the dashboard has had shit piled on since the console came out, and the decision for a non standard HDD can't help the situation much in 2012. Just stupid little UI things like loading images for my hundreds of XBLA games every time instead of caching them is a sign that it's time for a new console.
Oh, I love some dashboard whining. How hard is it to hit "my games" and choose the game you want? "I can't find anything!!" How? You scroll to "games", then choose Indie, Arcade or On Demand- it's not rocket science. People will bitch about anything, I swear...
I want in! But for whatever reason, I never get into these dashboard previews. Been a Xbox Live subscriber for 8 years. What else do they want? Sheesh! :P
I have done this in the past, and I would advise others to skip it. You basically get to live through the hassle everyone else does when they launch a new d-board, +n.
They should make a dashboard lite for those who just want the basics and want it to load fast. They keep making it slower and slower. It takes 20 seconds of spinning before I get to the dashboard when I start up my 360.
Eh, people whine about people whining about the dashboard, but what I find more frustrating is listening to the GB crew glowingly talk about a new dashboard before and immediately after it comes out, only to later talk about how utterly shit in nearly every capacity it is. Thanks for sharing the correct sentiment when it doesn't matter anymore, guys.
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I hate Microsoft's metro design, it only looks good on phones. Looks pretty horrible on Windows 8 and the 360 dash got worse when it started taking cues from it.
Awful dash overall, the last update added quite a few seconds to my 360 boot time too. Finding Spelunky was more effort than it should have been for a new release.
I pretty much hate the new design philosophy that inspired and is inspired by, the Metro (and similar) style(s), in all things. It's all about conveying less useful information and being less generally functional in favor of a pointless aesthetic choice. Modern web design in particular is pretty terrible. Lots of big block sections and pictures that tell me nothing or allow me to search for nothing that isn't immediately recent.
Eh, people whine about people whining about the dashboard
That's what you got out of this thread? Out of the 124 posts I counted 4 that were excited about the new dashboard. The rest of them would make Gamespot's console wars forums blush.
My Xbox has collected dust since the last update, MS can keep the Ad system, this one and the next. I've gone back to PC gaming and damn I forgot how much nicer it is.
Wait, do I understand this right, there are 5 squares, 4 of which are ads, the last for actually opening the menu that should've been the front page (probably filled with ads too) in the first place?
Wait, do I understand this right, there are 5 squares, 4 of which are ads, the last for actually opening the menu that should've been the front page (probably filled with ads too) in the first place?
The image shows your internet explorer start up page. These 5 squares are "pinned", something like a bookmark.
Anything will be better than the current dashboard, the ads & unresponsiveness (is that a word) have made me switch focus to ps3. Something I thought I would never do. The last game I bought on 360 was Minecraft!
I'm so glad I have a foreign dashboard. It's less cluttered, has far fewer ads, and less bull than the European, Canadian, and American ones that I've seen.
Also advertisement are just put everywhere and anywhere they can fit. There on my Xbox dashboard, my Steam store page, I think my Wii (although it's been a while since I've used it), my television shows, YouTube, every website on the planet (including this one) and even on things I buy in the store now. Everything is just ads everywhere, and honestly I'm getting sick of it. It doesn't make we want to buy the product and very rarely do I actually find out about a product through them.
So I got into this preview. Games load up WAY faster now. And the pinning feature is a nice addition. Would be nicer if it was one-button launch, though.
I'm weird. It doesn't bother me in the least (particularly since it's now zippy fast between panes). Turn on and hit A to play, or rock the stick or d-pad down once and hit A to play recent games, or click the right bumper three times and hit A to play anything.
Why does this not seem hard to me? Why is this hard for you?
People enjoy bitching. Dunno if you've noticed, but this is the internet.
Holy fuck - another one? When will Microsoft just settle for one solid design? The first two dashboards worked fine, but I honestly hate the newest one (other than the Quickplay feature). Hint: Make video gaming the main focus of the dashboard. If I want to watch a movie, listen to music, or go on facebook, I'll most likely use my computer. These are nice features, but making them more prominent than my game collection and the game marketplace is ridiculous.
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