1. The little Xbox “Mii”‘s are pretty lame compared to the Nintendo ones.
2. What exactly is the point of the large dashboard? It appears to almost, but not quite, duplicate the mini-blade interface you get when you hit the big green button. So you think everything is there until you can’t find something and you remember go look at the mini-interface again.
3. Still nowhere to cancel my credit card renewal payment without calling Microsoft.
Here’s a good thing: the little mini-blades come up fast. And it’s only one button push to start the current game I’m playing.
Still, it makes you wonder, if this is the best Microsoft can do, where exactly is its “advantage” on the software side?
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Its software advantage is that the entire update took ten seconds for the biggest software change I’ve ever seen and required no action on my part.
For comparison, I wanted to browse the PSN store to see what’s new today, but it wouldn’t let me because my firmware’s out of date (despite another patch last week). This doesn’t start the update process, mind you, I have to navigate to another part of the interface, then go through several steps and EULAs to do that. It’s currently on its eighteenth minute of the download and only at 58%, and from past experience it’ll take another 5-10 minutes to install once downloaded. And require my action over several reboots. All because I wanted to potentially give Sony some money. And other than once this past summer, I have NEVER noticed any actual difference from one firmware patch to another.
Sorry for the rant, but sometimes I really hate my ps3.
And you missed the best thing about the new experience: installing games to the hard drive. Faster load times and silent running.
There is nothing silent about my Xbox 360. Even playing a video off of the hard drive the thing is so loud that I can’t hear the dialog in the video without turning it up higher than I would like.
Compare that to (say) the Apple TV, which really is completely silent.
Netflix streaming is great. If they’d added nothing else, that would have been a success in my book.
Yeah, Netflix streaming is pretty cool. My one complaint – I’ve noticed that if I start my XBox with a game in the drive it no longer automatically runs the game. Those new extra seconds spent clicking threw menus are seconds not spent shooting things.
Hank: There’s a new option in the menus now to control whether to autorun what’s in the drive.