So I just got the "New Xbox One Experience", and holy crap the in-game guide is so good. I was getting worried about the new dashboard after hearing bad things on the bombcast and elsewhere, but using it for core functionality has improved so drastically.
When you’re in a game, you double tap the Xbox button, and everything you could possibly want is right there, with no loading between menus, no snapping. It does take like 1 full second for the guide to pop up, but once it does, accounts on the xbox are right there to login/logout, the friends list is there and you can invite people to a party without even having to start a party first, the party list is there to manage, a list of apps is there if you want to snap something for some reason, and you can even go straight to settings from there. And switching between those screens is nearly instantaneous.
It’s so good. I’m so happy with it. That thing completely eliminates the need to go to the dashboard while you’re playing a game. The dashboard itself is pretty meh and seems better in some ways and worse in others, but that in-game menu is amazing. It’s even better than the 360 used to be in terms of how easy it is to get people into your game or join others. I do wish you didn't have to double-tap to use it... it seems like it should just be a single tap, because I think it'll have far more use than returning to the dashboard.
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