Towards the end of November the Fall update for the Xbox 360 will be released.
Traditionally this has contained a large number of bugfixes with the occasional new feature. Last year saw the support (finally) for xvid avi files and a number of other things.
Over the last few months it has become apparent to anyone using an Xbox 360, particulary for marketplace purchases that something isn’t quite right. Due to the way that the spoke and menu selection systems work, once you get a lot of content, it can be very hard to navigate through and find exactly what you want. Browsing XBLA (Xbox Live Arcade) titles can be very tedious.
Details on what exactly will be changing can be found here:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/nxe/
We’re getting avatars and allsorts :p
Towards the end of last week, Major Nelson – Microsoft’s Xbox Live Directory of Programming posted a tweet with a teaser to keep an eye on his blog because news of how people can get the NXE would be appearing shortly.
Sure enough on Friday night I checked majornelson.com and found the details and a link to the survey you had to fill out. I signed up and started to fill the survey out, then noticed I needed my console ID. I was in York and the 360 was back in Bradford. FAIL.
I gave it up as a bad job and by the morning signups were full anyway. Oh well, I can wait a few weeks it doesn’t matter.
When I got home today, I decided to have a look, just to see if the signups were still closed. I clicked the link and signed into Microsoft Connect to see the same error message as other people have been seeing. The only difference was I had a link in the side bar to “available surveys” – the NXE one was there, probably because I’d started it but not submitted.
Filled out the info and sent in – we’ll see if I make the cut when the emails get sent out at the end of the week.
It’d be nice to get to grips with the new features before everyone else. Will also give me a chance to write a half decent review, which would be fun.
