14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is really stressing the importance of its fall update to the Xbox 360, especially the long awaited New Xbox Experience. Essentially a revamp of the old blade system which is currently employed in the Xbox 360 navigation menu, this promises to bring a much more user friendly experience and to take personalization to new extremes. In order to promote the system, Microsoft has just relaunched the Xbox.com website where you can experiment the new user interface and see movies of the finished version in action.
The content tabs are now fully displayed, the categories being Welcome, Inside Xbox, Game Marketplace, Friends, Video Marketplace and, last but not least, My Xbox. All of them promise to bring users a more pleasant experience while playing or browsing for content for their favorite console. Accessibility is the word best describing this user interface because it will offer a much less complex navigation for the users who aren't all that used to the console.
Also, the much awaited Avatars are showed, only in movies unfortunately, but promise to be a pretty interesting feature for the working version of the experience. Several other improvements and features in this update are the ability to save games to your hard drive and a new, more accessible in-game guide that helps gamers in those difficult situations.
Praises have already begun showering Microsoft because its users feel that this new experience is something that might give it the edge over the PlayStation 3. Although the two systems resemble quite a bit, Microsoft has stressed that this new interface is the hard work of quite a lot of people. Nonetheless, in my opinion, it looks very good and is sure to attract even more people to the Xbox, especially the casual gamers who see something much more friendly in this new interface than the old blade system.