While the NXE did a lot of good for Xbox Live Marketplace navigation, it still struggles under the weight of the mad amount of content available. This is my best guess as to why the UI gurus over at Microsoft have decided to give Xbox Live Arcade's specific menus a bit of a social face-lift via Destination Arcade, a quicker, more "easy-to-use" browser "app" for the games on the network.

Earlier yesterday, Major Nelson gave the first tease of the new UI over at his blog, and also dished out some details. Destination Arcade is coming to the US on July 14, and will incorporate some of the most obvious upgrades the XBLA browser has needed for some time like, for example, the ability to sort by price and rating, see discounts and deals, and access to a feed that tells you what's going on and coming. It's sorta like Steam, but more colorful. Here's some pictures Nelson shared with his audience:     
 

Limbo on PSN please.

NXE needs a total overhaul anyway, it's way too cluttered.  This is just one step :/

Don't really see the point.

My only real issue is how long it takes for the hard drive to detect my library sometiems. I wonder if this will fix that.

Reminds me of the old gametap setup kinda

Is this just a UI overhaul or a Halo Waypoint for arcade games?

 
Will this be a separate application a la Waypoint, Bock Band Music Store, Zune, etc... that you have to download and launch? 

" Limbo on PSN please. "

I'm and left saying cool...I guess....why not?

" NXE needs a total overhaul anyway, it's way too cluttered.  This is just one step :/ "

" @HS21 said:

" Limbo on PSN please. "

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" @SPACETURTLE said:

" @HS21 said:

" Limbo on PSN please. "

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Get an Xbox. "

It will be like the Zune Marketplace thing, which means you have to boot it up and patch it. Lame... at least it's not out in Europe for a while,

Uh.

It will probably end up being an app like Zune Marketplace.

" @Vinchenzo said:

" @SPACETURTLE said:

" @HS21 said:

" Limbo on PSN please. "

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Get an Xbox. "

Sure, let me get a $300 dollar machine for a $15 dollar game.  "

They should make a new NXE instead of adding app's to it...

Thank fuck you're not forced to use the Zune app! And hopefully this will be optional as well?!

But then again I'm not American so I probably shouldn't care :p

Please, more menus where my avatar stands there looping through dumb animations!

The design looks a bit mish-mash and outdated. From those screens it still looks really cluttered, maybe they should wait till they come up with a proper solution.

What the fuck? This kind of update should be for all consoles across the world if it has anything to do with User Interface. 
 
Whatever, it looks the same as cluttered to me. I think they need a NXE overhaul.

The deeper Microsoft gets with this NXE stuff, the more I miss the blades. Simple, clean, easy.

" @HS21 said:

" @Vinchenzo said:

" @SPACETURTLE said:

" @HS21 said:

" Limbo on PSN please. "

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Get an Xbox. "

Sure, let me get a $300 dollar machine for a $15 dollar game.  "

Sounds perfectly reasonable. "

" @HS21 said:

" @Vinchenzo said:

" @SPACETURTLE said:

" @HS21 said:

" Limbo on PSN please. "

"

Get an Xbox. "

Sure, let me get a $300 dollar machine for a $15 dollar game.  "

Sounds perfectly reasonable. "

" @Afroman269 said:

" @HS21 said:

" @Vinchenzo said:

" @SPACETURTLE said:

" @HS21 said:

" Limbo on PSN please. "

"

Get an Xbox. "

Sure, let me get a $300 dollar machine for a $15 dollar game.  "

Sounds perfectly reasonable. "

I got a PS3 to play Uncharted 2. Fair's fair. You owe us an Xbox. "

" @ptc: I hope not. I don't use facebook or zune but the rock band store would be more useful to me if I didn't have to launch it as an application every time. It's clunky and the whole thing needs streamlining. "

" @Afroman269 said:

" @HS21 said:

" @Vinchenzo said:

" @SPACETURTLE said:

" @HS21 said:

" Limbo on PSN please. "

"

Get an Xbox. "

Sure, let me get a $300 dollar machine for a $15 dollar game.  "

Sounds perfectly reasonable. "

I got a PS3 to play Uncharted 2. Fair's fair. You owe us an Xbox. "

" @Alphazero said:

" @Afroman269 said:

" @HS21 said:

" @Vinchenzo said:

" @SPACETURTLE said:

" @HS21 said:

" Limbo on PSN please. "

"

Get an Xbox. "

Sure, let me get a $300 dollar machine for a $15 dollar game.  "

Sounds perfectly reasonable. "

I got a PS3 to play Uncharted 2. Fair's fair. You owe us an Xbox. "

Yeah and sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound like a fanboy comment. I mean I want a PS3 as soon as I get a job. It's just that it's nice to have all available options. Get an Xbox when you can, or hopefully Limbo will come to the PS3. I wouldn't hold out on it though, because MS loves to hold onto exclusive shit. "

"YAY" for easier navigation and sorting, but "VOMIT" for hideous user interface.

Why is no one reporting on the Blacklight: Tango Down debacle occurring right now?  Yes the dashboard update will make sorting titles easier sure but will moving to really popular download content titles crash the infrastructure like it is right now?
 
I can't imagine being Zombie or Ignition with such fail MS support on distribution.  If this is indicative of how the service will progress in the future MS needs to fix it's pipelines before they update the face of the store.

" @HS21: It will end up coming to PSN like in a year. "

I never really had a problem with the current setup, and this doesn't  look too different.
 
@Wandrecanada: What debacle is occurring right now?

" @Afroman269 said:

" @HS21: It will end up coming to PSN like in a year. "

I hope so, for now I'll just have to be content with kidnapping young boys and leaving them in dangerous forests. Not that I wouldn't have done that anyway. Everyone's got a hobby.  "

" I actually don't mind the current NXE interface. I always sort by New Arrivals and find everything I need. This only thing that really needs fixing is Rock Band and other music game releases cluttering up the Game-Add Ons sections, especially when sorting by newest content. "

" @HS21 said:

" @Afroman269 said:

" @HS21: It will end up coming to PSN like in a year. "

I hope so, for now I'll just have to be content with kidnapping young boys and leaving them in dangerous forests. Not that I wouldn't have done that anyway. Everyone's got a hobby.  "

Jump into the bear trap! No seriously jump into it, I want to see death animations! "

The NXE (or just XE at this point) needs scrapping and replacing with a NNXE.
 
Er whatever this might be cool, if nothing else than for sorting through the Indie Games market place. There are nearly 2000, I've bought quite a few but looking through the older ones is a fucking headache. I can see this being like the pop out Rock Band, Lips and GH store, if you don't want to use it then don't.

Not liking the look of it but at least you can navigate easier.

I wouldn't call them UI "gurus", but this looks nicer than before.

looks ok

I would have preferred this to be an outright replacement for the terrible XBLA interface. PSN's is an order of magnitude better.

Ugly and stupid. I don't like the triggers being integral to browsing and (someone said this on a Bombcast a while ago) there's a point where you're still scrolling through some huge alphabetical list of every game on the service. 
 
On the design itself, the transparent parts look whack and I don't really need a rainbow of color. Maybe it's nitpicking, but I like the original Xbox was just like "Green and Orange. Go."

Is there going to be text search?

" @HS21: I will trade you a PS3 Limbo for a 360 Little Big Planet 2 "

" I actually don't mind the current NXE interface. I always sort by New Arrivals and find everything I need. This only thing that really needs fixing is Rock Band and other music game releases cluttering up the Game-Add Ons sections, especially when sorting by newest content. "