Games We Love but Wish We Could Love Playing
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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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Question, though: if we change our minds about using the new one after we decide to change it, we can change it back, right ?
I don't mind the new dashboard, it's the avatars that put me off.
Just to add to what Josh explained, you still have to download the update.
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.
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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