re: [Rumor]: Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update leaked??

MazzingerZ — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:11:53 GMT

It makes sense and expect some of this stuff for the fall, not all of it, though, it is just too much, but for example

< New Xbox Live Arcade blade - where you can download, play and learn about Xbox Live Arcade

< Brand new “web based adver-games” flash games which aren’t downloaded, but are playable bite sized games, accessed via new Xbox Live Arcade Blade

These last 2 are part of the support for the "new console" (CORE) that will be called "just play" or something like that, which will be sold as a console to mainly play arcade games, a 2XX Mb memmory card will follow, in this way they keep selling th CORE without committing fraud as in the near future won't be able to play all 360 games due to several will demand a HardDisk...I will even dare to say that even some special games (for kids) will be developed for that console...it looks like MSFT's Wii

<Filter friends list, will be able to filter friends via games

Great! Finally, when I heard about the PS3 having FL per game besides the main FL from dashboard I thought it was pretty cleaver, most of the people thought it was stupid, I do not know why...well, here you have the same principle...of course in the 360 you won't need to add twice the same friend I assume and everything is more integrated...but at the end is what I always wanted to have, I just hope you can edit the friends per game (or your friend can remove him-her/self from the list) and the list is not created based in the info stored in "Your games" taking into account that most of the people rents games and they do not keep them forever, if that is not editable, then is not that useful, the information won't be accurate anyway...

< New clan support - will be able to launch clan games direct from dashboard, can “fold” friends into new clan category in friends list

Pretty similar to the above FL per game, but this one will only be available for certain games, only those that supports Clans so you will belong to several Clans (1 per game that supports it)...this give me the answer why Bungie did not include Clan support right now for Halo 3, COD4 is confirmed it will support clans because for the time it comes out the update will be there, it makes sense!

re: [Rumor]: Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update leaked??

KingHackenslash — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:29:39 GMT

A web browser would be nice considering the chat pad is due out in a couple of weeks.

re: [Rumor]: Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update leaked??

jigsawhc — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:40:16 GMT

I don't believe this to be true. They is no way they are going to add xvid support. Also, I thought Microsoft had already said they were not building Clan support directly into the 260 and that it would be game specific. Could be wrong on that one though. It would be nice to have one Giant AGE Clan that spanned every game. Would make game nights easier too.