Gamekyo : [Xbox360] NXE (Nouveau Dashboard) Review : It's Pure Improvement !

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[Xbox360] NXE (Nouveau Dashboard) Review : It's Pure Improvement !

"NXE (New Xbox Experience) is faster, prettier and more functional than its predecessor (animations are very smooth as you flick through content, with little to no noticeable caching). It brings us avatars and Netflix, full game installs and more robust multiplayer. Truth be told, we could have been shown NXE as the operating system behind the Xbox 720, and life wouldn't have been so bad. Instead, we get it a few years early. And we consider ourselves lucky."

http://gizmodo.com/5070189/new-xbox-experience-nxe-review-its-pure-improvement

posted the 10/30/2008 at 02:14 AM by kokoriko kokoriko

comments (17)

kokoriko posted the 10/30/2008 at 02:15 AM

Visual -----> "It’s a bigger jump than Windows XP to Windows Vista."

kokoriko posted the 10/30/2008 at 02:17 AM

Full Game Installs -----> "I began installing Fable II at 10:14pm and it finished by 10:25pm. I'm not sure that the game loaded any faster (maybe you could catch it with a stopwatch, but I couldn’t with casual observation).
But I did notice that Fable’s auto-guidance system reacted more quickly to my directional changes. Pop-ins may have been a little improved as well, though I was able to duplicate a few problems I experienced with the disc in. The biggest benefit was that the DVD didn’t spin nonstop. In fact, it didn’t spin at all."

kokoriko posted the 10/30/2008 at 02:19 AM

Avatars -----> "Yes, we get it, Microsoft totally stole their avatars from Nintendo. Whatever. Good consoles borrow. Great consoles steal. Moving on…"

kokoriko posted the 10/30/2008 at 02:22 AM

Netflix -----> "You download the Netflix app on your Xbox, which takes about a minute. Then you go online with a 5-digit activation code, which takes about another minute. Add movies to your queue on netflix.com, and they appear on your Xbox in 1 to 5 seconds presented in sharp and vivid box art. (Even though you build a playlist on a PC, you can still check out queued movie ratings and summaries on the 360.) That’s, what, three minutes of setup time? To begin streaming any film in your queue, it's just another 10 seconds."

kokoriko posted the 10/30/2008 at 02:24 AM

Multiplayer Parties -----> "One of the biggest updates in NXE was multiplayer matching (under-the-hood adjustments that allow groups of friends to travel together from game to game with extreme convenience). Sounds good, but we were unable to test the feature because none of our friends have the new firmware."

kokoriko posted the 10/30/2008 at 02:25 AM

Themes -----> "Yes, you can use your old themes on NXE. No, it’s not quite the same. One wallpaper is used for a majority of your navigation (pretty much the whole time that you’re within the main icon-based interface, which is why that Fable backdrop is in every photo of this review). Other wallpapers make their way into submenus, like the Games Library content, but those moments are few and far between."

goldorak posted the 10/30/2008 at 08:05 AM

je le savais, c'est FANTASTIQUE

... sinon en français ça donne quoi ? ...

kekell posted the 10/30/2008 at 10:05 AM

une news signer par kokoriko , puis 6 poste d'afillé signé kokoriko

gemini posted the 10/30/2008 at 12:04 PM

Microsoft a enfin appris à realiser une interface pratique... Il etait temps.

darkfoxx posted the 12/11/2008 at 03:50 PM

Je confirme, tout est plus rapide en matière de navigation maintenant. Pourtant l'interface est plus intéractive, et pourtant, ça va plus vite. Efficace.

karbon posted the 12/11/2008 at 03:50 PM

C'est surtout moche et inutile ! en plus tu commence à voir certains internaut qui mettent leur mii en avatar ! putain que c'est moche xD !

solar posted the 12/11/2008 at 03:51 PM

C'est du tres bon boulot cet interface.

hemlock2 posted the 12/11/2008 at 03:55 PM

L'interface est magnifique, rapide, intuitive, bref du très très bon boulot du côté de chez Microsoft et Rare.

solar posted the 12/11/2008 at 03:56 PM

karbon ) sans blague.

vermiiii posted the 12/11/2008 at 08:27 PM

l'interface est cool mais les avatars... sont aussi ridicules que les miis

munkyale posted the 12/11/2008 at 08:51 PM

Vermiii> c'est pas ridicule, c'est juste fun. Faudrait être un peu plus ouvert d'esprit et peter un coup des fois... c'est caricatural, comme peuvent l'être les guignols sur canal, les simpson, south park etc... y'a vraiment des coincé du cul quand même -_-

kokoriko posted the 12/11/2008 at 10:54 PM

Qui déterre les articles vieux de 2 mois ?