New Xbox Dashboard is Optional

Deathsythe | July 22, 2008 | News | XBOX 360 Company Misc

The new Xbox 360 Dashboard update is (fortunately) optional and doesn't automatically take hold of your console. For those of you who prefer the traditional dashboard, rest assured that you can keep it.

We here at the ’Focus have openly embraced the "New Xbox Experience". I personally love the idea of a more modern Dashboard, but some of you non adopters loathe the change (some of you hate change period).

For you dissenting folk, there is no need to keep those feathers riled as Major Nelson affirms in his latest podcast that the same Dashboard we use today will in effect be there after the update. All the features seen today will be moved to the new guide level. A simple push of the same button on your controller will provide the only step to get there too. Quotes and more after the jump.

"I know that there are some people that aren't going to like the happy, happy, shiny New Xbox Experience. For whatever reason it's not flipping their bit. "Here's my message to you: you don't actually have to use it. You can never go there, just leave your game disc in and pretty much do everything that you could before but on the Guide level - one button press away in every single game.

"The Dashboard as you know it today, in other words the 'blades'; Games, Live, Media and System," The Major explained, "We've taken those blades and moved them to the Guide. Every single function that you can do today in the Dashboard you are going to be able to do in the New Xbox Experience in the Guide."

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TurMoiL911 | July 22, 2008

That's cool. A lot of people don't like the new look.

Question, though: if we change our minds about using the new one after we decide to change it, we can change it back, right ?
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joshthegreat | July 22, 2008

What he's saying is the current dashboard will replace the in-game guide button functions (i.e. the singular blade that pops out when you press the guide button during a game). Outside of a game, however, you'll have to use the new dashboard.
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  Xenctuary | July 23, 2008
  
  Precisely, it's not optional. It's just that the current "bladed" Dashboard sits within the Xbox Guide with no loss in functionality. As always the Guide can be called up at any time, so you can ignore the new Dashboard to your hearts content.
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Fishlock | July 22, 2008

Does anyone know if I can get this update on a disc?
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  Seproth | July 22, 2008
  
  Yeah, I think they are all available on disc. Check www.xbox.com I think.
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BANDITO ATTACK | July 22, 2008

i, for one, can't wait to get this update, then grow tired of it after a few minutes!
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  Storm | July 22, 2008
  
  'Tis what happens with most new gadgets and such that we get.
  
  I don't mind the new dashboard, it's the avatars that put me off.
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Cdemon | July 22, 2008

Title is very misleading, IMO.

Just to add to what Josh explained, you still have to download the update.
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DragoniteBallZ | July 23, 2008

You download the update but changing to the new scheme is optional. Apparently you can swap dashboard schemes now.

I don't like it either. It looks too generic and has too much of the Windows Media Center feel.

I dunno, they add some cool and some useful new features every dashboard update but the latest dashboard is by far the worst. It is so disorganized. It's so complicated just finding a particular video I want to watch and a game on the HD I want to play. It's horrible.
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  Cdemon | July 23, 2008
  
  Where did they say you can switch schemes?
  
  He said you can basically not use the new dashboard because the blade style dashboard is replacing the Xbox Guide, so in essence, you won't see what's being updated if you leave a game disc in your console at all times.
  
  The download isn't optional and you will still have the new dashboard.
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Heretic | July 23, 2008

The new dashboard look freaking awesome. Gonna get it.