The Eurogamer TV Show: New Xbox Experience - A Guide

What is this emo shit?!

That just one big giant advert :p

Ffs! Get some decent taste in music!

We get it ok EG. You love the new 360 experience.

Great, bring it on!

The remote download stuff is pretty damn cool. If you can tell your 360 to turn off after stuff has downloaded, even better (any knowledge of that EG?).

What Sony need now is a web based version of remote play to compliment the PSP functionality.

>Ffs! Get some decent taste in music!

Yea some emo death metal always does the trick.

Copied Nintendo for the avatars and OS X 10.5 for the sliding interface. Good but utterly derivative and utterly shameless. In other words- utterly Microsoft.

Now that's an entertaining ad.

8/10 lol

Music is pretty horrible, I agree with the others.

EG's coverage of NXE has been...extensive.

If you look at the shadow on Jerry Johnson's shirt of his face it's from an extreme top-down view so you can see his nose pointing out, obviously this is important.

whats with netflix in Europe ?

That song was fucking awful.

The Dashboard looks alright, a nice change from the one at the moment at least.

Ugly... Blades are nice and simple. PS3 UI is shite so are MS trying to compete for the shitist UI? I like the install on HDD and some of the extra features (streaming videos) but I am using a console not a PC, i don't want a millions menus!!!

This reminds me of how excited I was when Windows Vista came out. I need to lie down.

3:19 - Danger run from pedestrian in the background

Splumph!

"PS3 UI is shite.."

???? I do not get that at all. Personally I find it very slick and the best of the bunch, even after this casual facelift for the old 360 :)

I was a big fan even when they first introduced the XMB with PSP.

It looks great . . . except for the f**king avatars!! Still, My other half will no doubt love them.

xmb works on psp, generally 'cause they aren't so many options. But on the ps3 I always feel its a chore going through them. My fav bit (though it can be annoying when its idle) is the preview bit of a game. Wii channels are good (actually probably the best thing about the wii). I just think I am playing a console so everything should be a simple as possible. Are the Avatars mandatory? If so that is balls.

"How do you get a group of friends and introduce content" the answer? Home, lol, which i might say hasent been released yet, lol.

I havent been this excited since the 1918 flu pandemic.

@ Zander

Yeah I see what you mean. I may be bias as I use my PS3 for all my media, except HD DVD of course, so for me the XMB is pretty sweet as it's all there with easy access (especially if you throw in TVersity).

And yes the avatar are mandatory. If you want to avoid the cute little buggers you have to use that small guide in the centre of the screen all the time.

A simple hide avatars option would have been a better solution if you ask me....

I cannot be f*cked with having to setup up some shitty Avatar!!! I wanna play games and chainsaw people in the face for god sake.

xmb - does it have a good cataloging system for you files? I don't have many on mine so don't know. One thing that gripes is that by default it list my games by install date and not alphabetical, who does that!?

Does installing games mean you can bulk up your collection via blockbuster rentals?

My XMB is grouped by folder by system type (PS3, PSP, PS1), and then within that it is ordered by last played (which is pretty handy). Music - albums are pretty much all tagged, so they are in album folder order. Actually not checked to see if the PS3 does gapless playback with mp3s, was way impressed when I discovered the PSP did.

looking forward to the update but that EGTV was just a glorified advert.

'we invented it all... i've got paper that proves it' - that made me and a few work colleagues laugh.

'we didn't want to do anything too simple or anything too realistic' - translates to Nintendo did something cool - Sony are making something cool so we'll make something meh that sits somewhere in between... no risk there.

@Zander and bad09.

It's a good point really. There's a lot of options on the PS3 (perhaps too many) and the Xbox could be going the same way. At the moment the blades are pretty simple.

"That just one big giant advert :p "

That's gaming press for you.

I dont think we have a choice

"the answer? Home, lol, which i might say hasent been released yet, lol. "

Yeah because launching a separate program, wandering around in a 3d world to find your friends and then trying to enter a game is not cumbersome when you do it for the 100th time.

Dunno. It might work well. You see enough "Organise online games here" threads on EG, you gather in Home and launch the game you want... the way its been spun is you can select the game type you all want to play in advance and then launch straight into it. Still, just hypothetical, waiting to see proof in the pudding.

That actually looks a lot more cluttered than I was expecting.

Sausage? Why did he mention sausage? Is microsoft in the sausage business now? Oh well....with mash and gravy for me, please.

Looks pretty nice to me, especially the marketplace restructure - marketplace is absolutely awful to trawl through unless you're only interested in new releases because there's so damn much in it.

Personally, I like the avatars because it means I can actually make a unique gamertag pic, instead of being limited to the ones that are in the box or downloadable (and others are using). Interface looks slick to me - a mixture of the compact (and arguably new user-unfriendly) existing interface and the swish looking but rather laborious when full of content XMB.

But then, people always bitch when things change. Move with the times lads ;)

OMG I have to upgrade my HDD, this gonna be great!!! Can't wait...

where's Home? ihihihihi... perhaps in 2010 or perhaps never....sony just lied to you wake up fools...

Wow truly a breathtaking operating system, nothing comes close!

Looks great and remember MS did not have to do this. The 360 needed it, dont get me wrong but MS could have just left it as it is and waited for the 720...

Good job MS..!

migasUK, you are just a box of awesome. well done.

Looking good.

The dash has become unweildy, too much content.
The avatars are a rip off, but a wise move and the Idea of Primetime game is epic. possibility of real prizes too.

my only fear is how unwieldy will the friends "list" thing be with a lot of friends on?

Terrible music, but it's not "emo".

And for some constructive stuff: feels a bit like an ad, but if you're looking forward to this it's still very interesting.

New dashboard looks very childish, especially the avatars.

Isnt the Xmb just a "big massive copy"(typical of Sony) off MS' Windows Media Centre UI? ;)

This new dashboard interface looks great, more modern, flashier AND faster by design(navigation) and performance(faster loading)? Yes please.

"Isnt the Xmb just a "big massive copy"(typical of Sony) off MS' Windows Media Centre UI? ;) "

Everything is a copy of everything. The only reason why some can get away with it is because they bought themselves a nice image.

why doesn't he use his full mouth?

My God. You journalistic, for sale, wide assed Eurogamer wh*r#s!

Many Eurogamer posters are negative, snarky, whiners, but this collection of posts takes the cake.

Makes me want to be a PC gamer. Or not a gamer at all. Is there anyone posting here older than 14 or is this just a UK thing?

you use this word, nooks and crannies?