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The New Xbox Series Experience "UI"

1 - anything is better than what they have now
2 - if it's snappy and fast as it looks that's great
3 - hope to hell they fixed the memory leaks so I don't have to unplug it from the wall every week
4 - the basic interface looks like xmb with an extra layer lol
 
Looks pretty slick, if you ask me. Judging from the video, we'll get a revamped Xbox mobile app too.
 
Jose92 said:
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It's better but it's not a buy from me good for MS
 
Looks like a nicer version of what we have now. What I really care about is the speed. It's very clear these current consoles weren't designed around the idea of
A) Having a game with hundreds of DLC files installed (ex: Rock Band 4)
or
B) Having several hundred games installed at once

I hope they are planning ahead a little better this go around, because it's a little ridiculous to watch My Games & Apps stall out and crash to dashboard just by going to the Manage Add-Ons section of a music game. It's been getting better every update but I'm hoping with a new pricey box to see a substantial jump in performance.
 
Eh...looks fine I guess. I still think it's ridiculous that the ads are still there. They don't even go away if you have gold. At least give users the option to boot right into the game library as opposed to the home screen. That's part of the reason I prefer the PS4 UI. Every so often they put an icon for PS Now or a sale and that's it.

Also given recent events, probably a bad idea to show Halo Infinite gameplay. :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 
sinnergy said:
Most interesting to me: reduction of the memory footprint by 40%

anyone know the footprint of Xbox One and One X?

means more usable memory for games .
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One thing to consider, though, is that the current UI is 1080p. A full 4k dashboard will have a considerably bigger memory footprint (more tiles, images, etc).
 
MiguelItUp said:
Looks better than the XB1's interface for the most part. So that's a step in the right direction IMO.

I still don't understand why they haven't bothered bringing the blades back. People loved them, as did I, and for good reason. That aesthetic could be brought back and touched up to feel both familiar and new.
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The blades UI fell apart as soon as you had even a moderate amount of content to sort through, be it your own or the store. Rose coloured glasses.

Also not sure if there's a topic for it or anything but they confirmed a November release for series X in the blog post about this new UI update.

We'll begin to roll them out in the coming weeks, and come November we'll celebrate a milestone in our user experience journey alongside the launch of Xbox Series X.
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Hmm the mention a reduced footprint for the OS and then mention it will be coming to the Xbox One. So does that mean more RAM available for developers on Xbox One 7 years into the gen?? 😳
 
that is the current UI design for the Xbox insiders, it is easy to use and understand but is not fast enough, sometimes it takes too much time to load the store contents or your game library

I'm enrolled to the program and I have the preview
 
MrFunSocks said:
The blades UI fell apart as soon as you had even a moderate amount of content to sort through, be it your own or the store. Rose coloured glasses.

Also not sure if there's a topic for it or anything but they confirmed a November release for series X in the blog post about this new UI update.
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Yeah, that nostalgia for the blades does not correlate with reality. As soon as you have a couple of dozen of games, its unusable.
IMO current Xbox UI is excellent: fast, easy to navigate, and most of the actions are super close (couple of clicks to have your game library and lists, friends, messages, settings, store, gamepass, etc.
 
LittleBusters said:
How is the PS4 UI any less confusing?
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They're both quite equal in terms of not being the most user friendly UI's.

However I find Sony's take on the storefront a lot easier to navigate and find stuff. It's more of a separate app, and the tabs and search is a lot more friendly.

The Xbox store is almost baked into the whole UI with tabs everywhere. Not as good imo. Any improvement for the Xbox is a good improvement.

Edit; also going back to the Xbox store, it bugs the hell out of me it doesn't have a 'add to cart' and 'return to store' feature so you can add multiple stuff then pay all at once. Hope this is addressed.
 
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DanDirtCheap said:
They're both quite equal in terms of not being the most user friendly UI's.

However I find Sony's take on the storefront a lot easier to navigate and find stuff. It's more of a separate app, and the tabs and search is a lot more friendly.

The Xbox store is almost baked into the whole UI with tabs everywhere. Not as good imo. Any improvement for the Xbox is a good improvement.

Edit; also going back to the Xbox store, it bugs the hell out of me it doesn't have a 'add to cart' and 'return to store' feature so you can add multiple stuff then pay all at once. Hope this is addressed.
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Let's not pretend the store UI is why XBox failed this generation.
 
LOL first time I skimmed every time the frame was on someone talking, not the UI.

Just show us a demo of someone using the system and STFU..

MS and their marketing are such a waste of overblown puff pieces.
 
jaysius said:
"We've put 3 ADS on your homepage because MS won't let us stop fucking up our basic UI's with ADs because paying $300+ plus monthly fees isn't enough to get an AD FREE experience"

Is what they really should say, imagine if they could make a homescreen with 0 space given to shitty ads. MS UI designers wouldn't even know what to do if they were allowed to get rid of the ad spaces, they're so used to sticking them in there.

Fucking MS, and people defend the ADs too.

IF a mobile phone that you paid for had ADS on the mainscreen, ever present and dynamically changing, people would never buy that phone. They'd be scrutinized into oblivion, become the hottest long lasting meme, "Yo remember that phone with the ADS when you went to your homescreen, that you could never REMOVE, LULZ good try TELePhonia, better UI next TIME!!! ROFLS!!"

It's bullshit in 2020 to have to put up with this shit.

REMOVE ADS from the HOMESCREEN, or come up with something like Sony(who has the clunkiest and shittiest UI experience) has done, where the ADs can be Deleted from the homescreen, and then in the case of the initial landing icon when you turn the machine on, you simply scroll over to get rid of that shit.

If they didn't have to put those 3 ad blocks on the homescreen they could have made a far nicer homescreen experience. The fact that they're happy as pigs in their own shit about this, and it looks like the Series X UI too, is awful.

The FOCUS for a UI for a console that costs MONEY should be on GAMES not ADS, the 3 AD blocks are bigger than the icons above them that are the FOCUS of the MACHINE, we turn on the MACHINE to PLAY games not to VIEW ADs.

There's no defense for this, ADs are shitty, we should have a clean UI that shows US OUR OWN content.
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I've never understood this complaint about ads, I have never noticed them on my dash and if I have it's usually gold telling me there's new games to download in a tiny box in the corner of my screen.
 
IDappa said:
I've never understood this complaint about ads, I have never noticed them on my dash and if I have it's usually gold telling me there's new games to download in a tiny box in the corner of my screen.
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Keep it up MS loves your willingness to be advertised to and just take it. I don't get how people love to be advertised to on a machine that costs $300+ PLUS a MONTHLY SERVICE to play online.

They don't belong there. The UI would only IMPROVE from the removal of those ADs, it could be completely different and better too, if they didn't have the shitty mandate to put AD spaces in the UI. We'll never know because MS loves the money it gives them, and there are people like you that love them and push back against feedback for change, they would need a consistent message from all their fans of bloody murder to change this, but fanbois would still give the pushback... because MS can do NO WRONG.
 
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jaysius said:
Keep it up MS loves your willingness to be advertised to and just take it.

They don't belong there. The UI would only IMPROVE from the removal of those ADs, it could be completely different and better too, if they didn't have the shitty mandate to put AD spaces in the UI. We'll never know because MS loves the money it gives them, and there are people like you that love them and push back against feedback for change.
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Again as I said never noticed them and if I have it's related to their store (games sales, free games). Other than that I haven't seen anything else advertised to me. I live in Australia however so that might reduce the chances of getting advertised Doritos and MTN Dew.

I hate people who add conjecture into their arguments like it's facts, "people like you love it" get outta here with that school boy reply. I never said I loved it nor did I say it should be on the dash, I merely pointed out I have never noticed them.

You seem angry tbh.. chillout and then reply if you wanna discuss further.
 
IDappa said:
Again as I said never noticed them and if I have it's related to their store (games sales, free games). Other than that I haven't seen anything else advertised to me. I live in Australia however so that might reduce the chances of getting advertised Doritos and MTN Dew.

I hate people who add conjecture into their arguments like it's facts, "people like you love it" get outta here with that school boy reply. I never said I loved it nor did I say it should be on the dash, I merely pointed out I have never noticed them.

You seem angry tbh.. chillout and then reply if you wanna discuss further.
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Do you get my point that if they weren't constricted by AD SPACES that the UI would be completely different. MS has always kept shitty AD spaces in their UI. If you do get this, than you're just being contrary for no reason.

A UI's job is to make things ACCESSABLE and not to SERVE YOU ADs.

This is an entire video masturbating over how great and accessible their UI is, how they're the best at making a UI, when they're still integrating wasted space(ADs) and they see nothing wrong with it. If these machines were subsidized by some sort of program, and the ADs were there as an agreement, than YES that would be great. But they're pricing competitively with Sony and Sony's ADs on their homespace are much much less obnoxious, and NOT integrated into the UI.

If you fail to see the problem with what MS is doing here, than there's something wrong.

WE are not FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES to make more money, we've BOUGHT the machines already.
 
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Vawn said:
Xbox 360 early on had a near-perfect UI. Then they kept changing it, making it a little worse until it was just a complete mess mid-way through this gen.

Now, it's slowly getting better, but still nowhere as good as early Xbox 360 blades UI.
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Blades were so iconic but wouldn't be as functional imo with all the rediculous apps on consoles today
 
Vawn said:
Xbox 360 early on had a near-perfect UI. Then they kept changing it, making it a little worse until it was just a complete mess mid-way through this gen.

Now, it's slowly getting better, but still nowhere as good as early Xbox 360 blades UI.
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When was the last time you used blades? I played with it recently and it wasn't nearly as nice as I remember it. A lot of unused space. It was snappy but only because it didn't really feature much.
 
I still remember the god awful UI the X1 released with. It took five years to fix it. Hopefully this one continues the steps in the positive direction.
 
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