Xbox Live boss teases future features for Xbox dashboard Options

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Xbox Live boss teases future features for Xbox dashboard Posted by XanTium | July 21 19:40 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From oxm.co.uk: [QUOTE] General Manager of XBox Live has spoken of even more new features he expects to come to the Xbox Live dashboard - including the ability to control your console over the internet, and ultimately a hardware-free future. He also confirmed that hard drive installs will work with all current and future Xbox games. Speaking to OXM at E3, Marc Whitten said that the new update is "only the beginning" of the social networking features that Microsoft want to deploy. He also said that we can expect future updates to include the ability to switch on your Xbox from any PC and download content to it remotely - "at some point in the future you'll hear more from us about that." [/QUOTE] Full Story: oxm.co.uk

[majik655]

For the 360 to turn on remotely from a pc... I am assuming there will be a fuction of LAN LINE WAKEUP?



Would it respond back with RROD? hahaha (sorry I had to say it.)

[xmod4u]

"So we are slowly turning the console world into PC's"

Any latest new features from M$ is always a step closer to PC. Slowly changing the world of consoles into a mass network of bull crap! that they control, I might add.
This is not sitting with me well at all, I miss the good ol days of gaming my friends, its just not the same anymore.

thanks M$!

NOT

[BasicAir]

All old news except the turning on/off remotely, which was an assumed feature by myself and friends anyway when it was discussed last week about remote downloading.

So all in all, less intriguing article than I originally thought.

"So we are slowly turning the console world into PC's"

Any latest new features from M$ is always a step closer to PC. Slowly changing the world of consoles into a mass network of bull crap! that they control, I might add.
This is not sitting with me well at all, I miss the good ol days of gaming my friends, its just not the same anymore.

thanks M$!

NOT

Uhhhhhh, you okay there?

The 360 is still very much a gaming machine. These new features do nothing to take away from the gaming experience. For you to say you don't like these new and potential features is basically saying 'technology sucks' and to that I can only laugh.

Lighten up for Christ's sake.

[readmore]

"So we are slowly turning the console world into PC's"

Any latest new features from M$ is always a step closer to PC. Slowly changing the world of consoles into a mass network of bull crap! that they control, I might add.
This is not sitting with me well at all, I miss the good ol days of gaming my friends, its just not the same anymore.

thanks M$!

NOT

Wow... maybe you shouldn't have bought a 360 and stuck with your Genisis and SNES if you're so afraid of progress.

"I hate these fancy poli-gones. Don't want 'em, don't need 'em no sir."

[unistyle]

"So we are slowly turning the console world into PC's"

Any latest new features from M$ is always a step closer to PC. Slowly changing the world of consoles into a mass network of bull crap! that they control, I might add.
This is not sitting with me well at all, I miss the good ol days of gaming my friends, its just not the same anymore.

thanks M$!

NOT

um.. so you can't game with your friends anymore? seems to me you can do it still, you can even do it from across the world now. now that i'm getting older, having friends over to game is less possible since half my friends moved out of state. if it wasn't for the xbox and xboxlive, online gaming would probably be nonexistent. so yeah, sometimes ms adds shit that i don't care about to xbox and xboxlive.. but to say it ain't the same and that you miss the good ol days is pure bullshit.. we have it so much better now.. especially with live arcade and leaderboards putting some competition back in gaming. imo ms has done a lot for gaming.

[halcyonx12]

Those hard drive installs seem like a bad idea, it's almost guaranteed to get exploited and be used for piracy. Everyone wants their games to load faster and have bigger games, but the way to do that is hard drive installs, not hard drive imaging. Although if they can get it to work fine without ever being exploited (somehow) then it would be a nice option to have, like mandatory managed copy for video games or something.

[ssj4android]

Those hard drive installs seem like a bad idea, it's almost guaranteed to get exploited and be used for piracy. Everyone wants their games to load faster and have bigger games, but the way to do that is hard drive installs, not hard drive imaging. Although if they can get it to work fine without ever being exploited (somehow) then it would be a nice option to have, like mandatory managed copy for video games or something.

Why is almost guaranteed to be exploited for piracy? The disc must be authenticated against in order for someone to play the game. Plus, Arcade and original Xbox titles played off of the hard drive can't be pirated, right? (Well, besides the DRM copy tool, and apparently devkits can download them for free? But those things are by design.) Worst thing it leads to is people using one disc for multiple consoles at once, and I don't think that's a huge concern for Microsoft.

Also, I'm not sure how much I like the Xbox being remotely turned on. I'm imagining it would be done Wii style rather than wake on LAN to allow download from anywhere (the 360 would periodically connect to check if it's supposed to download something). Well, it wouldn't be too bad if it doesn't take more power. I was assuming things would start download when you next turned your 360 on.

EDIT: Oh, the full interview makes it a bit more clear. What I said is how it will work, the remote wake thing is supposed to be in an update after that. Same as IPTV and clan support.

This post has been edited by ssj4android: Jul 22 2008, 04:19 AM

[xmod4u]

Guys! Funny stuff, but ya taking me the wrong way.

First off, if the online thing is the only card your giving M$, then they got squat! Ok, Xbox live is the bomb today, but its not like they came up with the idea. SO bravo for buying a great concept.

Right away, snes and genesis are brought up, wonder why.

Look, im ok with technology going forward dummies, but I don't need my 360 to make toast for me! its a game system, lets stick to it, maybe it will be better to concentrate on that only...

And what does "hardware free" mean ? no more faulty systems... but how... yeah, whatever.


and of course Im ok, why wouldn't I be ? this is a forum right ?


all in good fun.

[Chancer]

All this telling us what the console will have in future, is starting to sound like all the hype and dreams Sony usually spout. Attempt to drive some sales?

[batman91]

is it jus me, or is this feaure pretty useless to a large majority of people? i dont donload a hugegreat big deal of stuff from xblm, and when i dothe downlaods are so fast, that i hardly notice. i just set up the downlaods and let em run when im palying offline/eating/etc etc. can soemone give me an eample where this is a valuable feature?

edit:
the only one i can thik of is a timed exclusive (like free carcasonne/halo gamerpics etc)aand yo arent near yor pc (holidays or something)

This post has been edited by batman91: Jul 22 2008, 11:41 AM

[HaredX]

Those hard drive installs seem like a bad idea, it's almost guaranteed to get exploited and be used for piracy. Everyone wants their games to load faster and have bigger games, but the way to do that is hard drive installs, not hard drive imaging. Although if they can get it to work fine without ever being exploited (somehow) then it would be a nice option to have, like mandatory managed copy for video games or something.

Not really, the only way that this could be exploited is if signed software was developed allowing you to FTP games from your PC to your 360, I mean, if someone already has their console chipped so they can load the game directly to the hard drive from the disc, they're really not losing anything that they haven't already lost. And in order for such software to be developed the 360 would first have to be hacked, which would then mean MS would have a LOT more on their hands than worrying about people illegally copying games to the hard drive. The only concern with this feature I see is people renting games and then loading them onto the hard drive and having them still be playable even after the rental is returned, and I'm sure MS already has an idea to fix that.

[unistyle]

First off, if the online thing is the only card your giving M$, then they got squat! Ok, Xbox live is the bomb today, but its not like they came up with the idea. SO bravo for buying a great concept.

hm.. clearly they didn't come up with the idea, but if it wasn't them who pushed it to the next level with xboxlive, who would it have been? dreamcast? ps2? ps3? yeah right. we would still be so far behind where we are now. and even if that was the only 'card' ms had, that's a fuckin ace of spades if you ask me.

[chronno]

The ability to switch on your 360 from any PC. Like the PS3's remote play?

Want to make it more like a PC? Let me put in my own drive and install windows. The PS3 already douse that and Microsoft is stealing everything else from them.

Oh, and a little suggestion for Microsoft: Video from USB drive. The option is there but it never lights up even with a drive that it can play music from.

[mercury187]

so my 360 has always sat on top of my entertainment center on top of a stand sitting flat down (not vertical) for optimum airflow, never having moved the thing in at least 8 months I get 3 red light of death last night, now if only they can fix that in a update. Guess I won't have to buy 360 games anymore, ps3 all the way now...