Live Marketplace hits web News

Tried it..Didn't work, must be the work PC settings.

Will give it a bash on home PC when the toils of work are finished for the day.

Looks ok for er, looking.

I like it. Now I am even more excited about getting an Xbox 360. Wahey!

(I like Wii and PS3, too, honest).

Given inside the bowels of Microsoft they have a small army of people who specialise in user interfaces and information presentation, it continues to shock me how crap the information is laid on the 360 dashboard. The last dash update improved things, marginally........

And still they don't give you a way of previwing themes or gamer pictures.

Why is this not on majornelson.com? And what´s this Halo 3 beginning stuff I never heard about?? Maybe they have demoted the major or something...

What they need to do is allow you to queue up your downloads from your PC at work. Then get home, fire up the old girl, whack on Geometry Wars, and watch all your downloads start in the background...

Doesn't work on Linux, probably needs flash 8 or newer. I hate flash, and Adobe.

Great site makes things an awful lot easier to find.

Now what would be really nice would be if it allowed you to queue up downloads for your 360.

Great idea, saves a tiny bit of hassle as it saves me having to switch the internet cable from my PC to the 360, which because they are incompletely different rooms, involves me threading the cable through my living room, through a fractionally open door (which is closed off as the PC is in front of it) in order to connect it to the modem. It can be a pain having to do that only to find out that bugger has been put up worth downloading.

One problem though. Even though a few people (including the article itself) have mentioned about it being easier to find stuff, I disagree. While it is much easier to find the total listing of everything put up for download overall, there seems to be no way to filter out the new and the old. So it looks like it might be slightly annoying when trying to find out what exactly has been updated that wasn't there last time you checked, as you have to scroll down all the way through all the old stuff as well. Only minor points though.

Not sure what's the problem with the 360 Marketplace menus though. The only problem I have with them is it kicks you back out of the seperate game DLC menus once you have selected something to download, which can be very annoying when you want to download multiple stuff from a single game (I'm looking at you DR and Prey......)

Wouldn't work for me either.

And what´s this Halo 3 beginning stuff I never heard about??

It's a big (350mb-ish) video in the Halo 3 section, got lots of interviews with Bungie dudes, behind the scenes footage, bits of the trailer from alternate angles, bits of discussion about the meaning of the trailer, how it relates to the game, where they're going with the game, stuff like that, it's pretty good, well worth downloading.

Edit: Grammar fix

Doesn't work.

I only get a blank canvas-like rectangle.

Thank you Microsoft, for testing your web services well!

(Firefox@Linux)

And still they don't give you a way of previwing themes or gamer pictures.

theme's
pic's

You may touch me now. ;p

Doesn't work for me either. Firefox 1.5.0.7 on Windows XP. Hope you are reading this MS.

"There is currently no way to list content by the date it was added, making it difficult to establish what's new"

Ahh nuts. Thats possibly one of the most important browsing features. Hope you are reading this too MS.

Got latest flash shockwave player and now (after a a relaunch bit of refresh button high jinks) it seems to work.

A bit cluncky, but I guess its new so it will get better.

Cool that you can see previews of the themes on the web, but surely the main problem with those themes are the godawful interface elements placed on top of those nice backgrounds?

Shame that the 360 dashboard couldn't be designed to look nice for a change, instead of the normal "Microsoft ugly". I love my 360, but I would have loved it so much more if they'd bothered to hire a designer.

Great, Now I can check for new content at work and decide whether I need to powerup the 360 when I get home!

+10 Ralph.

This is what I immediately hoped for when reading Tom's relatively coherant prose.

The demo list is out of date already. NFS: Carbon, FIFA 07 or Tiger 07 nowhere to be seen.

I really hope Microsoft don't employ the same people to keep this one up to date as they do for the main xbox.com website. The amount of mistakes and incorrect details on there are too many to even begin to list.


It's a great idea, but please don't waste this golden opportunity...

At least you can view themes and stuff before actually buying the sodding things now.

At least, for the themes :|