360 system update released, not the Fall update

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360 system update released, not the Fall update

Posted Aug 6th 2008 9:30AM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News, Xbox Live

A few hours ago, a new Xbox 360 system update was released meaning that anyone signing into Xbox Live will be prompted to give it a download. But don't get too excited, because Major Nelson has informed us that this is NOT the feature rich Fall update we've all been waiting for. Instead, today's system update has code in it to "prepare for future growth of the service" with no new visible changes or features added. Which also means there are no Avatars ... yet.

[Thanks, to everyone who sent this in]

Tags: dashboard-update, update, xbox-360, xbox-live

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8-06-2008 @ 1:21PM

mike k. said...

future growth my bum. Its really the kill switch update that authorizes all 360's to break the 3 rules of robotics, and hold hostage their owners.

8-06-2008 @ 3:06PM

DjDATZ said...

LOL. WIN.

8-06-2008 @ 1:22PM

Darkharmony said...

I'm not sure but I thought I saw a small update in the font on all of the text and slightly faster load times on the blades. I could be wrong though.

8-08-2008 @ 2:44AM

Dano said...

FWIW, this update is apparently causing havoc to systems. The symptoms appear to be related to video with the screen freezing/tearing/"checkering" with some systems getting the RRoD or "E74" error (AV cable problem).

In almost all cases I have found, the system was working fine up until the update dropped, and even seemed to be fine for a short period (

8-08-2008 @ 2:51AM

Dano said...

[Grrr...submission cut off my comment]

FWIW, this update is apparently causing havoc to systems. The symptoms appear to be related to video with the screen freezing/tearing/"checkering" with some systems getting the RRoD or "E74" error (AV cable problem).

In almost all cases I have found, the system was working fine up until the update dropped, and even seemed to be fine for a short period (

8-10-2008 @ 4:34PM

Gavinjc said...

Seems to have caused a problem streaming my videos from Connect360 on the mac - which was no problem before - the videos start 'juttering' (for want of a better word). I tried a few, and it happened - might just have to wait for an update to Connect360 though.

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