So what's everyone think about the "new" Xbox experience? Kind of neat, but I'm still not sold on it, yet. Have to do some more navigating. Cool to see everyone's avatar.
Tried out the netflix thing. I am not impressed. Picture quality is severely lacking and the show I sampled was not shown in 16:9. Great idea, but not for me - yet.
It's MEH to me. The avatars really weren't necessary.
I was told repeatedly by other LIVE friends that the NXE was a lot like Microsoft Vista. It certainly looks like that to me.
It's really just meh. Some things are hard to find which is a little frustrating now, but we'll get used to that.
I do like the party chat and the ability to switch back and forth between game chat and party chat in just a couple of clicks. However the problem with party chat is when you leave a game with friends you may have been playing/chatting with, you now need to not just leave the game to be disconnected from them, but leave the party chat as well.
Oh and don't forget to set your party chat to INVITE. I can't tell you how many times I was saying "Who the hell is that" when a friend of one of my friends would just jump into our party chat.
So this so far is just a marginal improvement.
One thing I DO hope for is the ability to aquire new bits for our avatars.
One way could be through gamerscore. Higher the score the more stuff you can unlock, or have "credit" to purchase avatar stuff.
Another way would be for games themselves to include avatar bits that are unlocked as you get achievements (my preference).
And of course just straight buying them from the marketplace.
I'd like to put a Jedi Robe on my av and a lightsaber in his hand.