Dec 18 2008
Xbox 360 gets a makeover and avatars
Will “Halo 3” players want to make cute little avatars on their Xbox 360s?
Well, guess what? They’ll have to. It’s the first thing you’re prompted to do in the New Xbox Experience, the shiny makeover to the Xbox interface that rolled out on Wednesday.
The NXE, as it’s called, is an update to the front-end of the Xbox Live online system, which is, without question, the industry standard.
Since its inception three years ago, the Xbox Live Marketplace — the storefront for the system — has grown far beyond Microsoft’s expectations. And the Xbox Live interface, called the “blade” system, became ill-equipped to handle the deluge of downloadable games, demos, trailers and movies that came to populate it.
Marc Whitten, general manager for Xbox Live, says they anticipated maybe 200 items in their online store when it launched. “But where we ended up, we have over 20,000, and we’ve had over 500 million downloads inside of our marketplace since we launched the 360,” he says. And from watching that growth, he says it became clear how to change it……………-you can find the rest at-
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27811886/
