This is it folks, the complete and official reveal of the new features contained in Tuesday's Fall Dashboard Update. All the things we've discussed before are in there obviously, but there are a few new and scrumptious nuggets to digest as well. Here's everything in a nutshell.
- Xbox Originals: download original Xbox titles directly to your Xbox 360. The first games available will be Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, Halo, Fable, Fuzion Frenzy, and Psychonauts for 1200 points each.
- Xbox Live Arcade Greatest Hits: best selling Arcade titles will be available for permanently reduced prices. The first games available are Bankshot Billiards and Lumines Live for 800 points, and Marble Blast Ultra, Small Arms, and Zuma Deluxe for 400 points.
- Inside Xbox: a direct feed of news directly from Xbox.com to your 360
- Enhanced online profile: share info with Live members using a new bio feature which can be made available to everyone or locked to friends only. Also, you can include your real name in your profile
- Friends of Friends: browse the friends lists of your friends and other Live members
- New Family Timer that lets parents (or wives) limit game time
- New navigation system for the Dashboard with the Game Store and Video Store buttons
- New codec support including DivX and Xvid (yes, you read that correctly)
Head over to Joystiq for some more details.
Mini-update: find a comprehensive list of updates at the Xbox Team Blog.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
11-30-2007 @ 12:36PM
Ithilis said...
Well, hot-diggity-damn, that's a nice looking update.
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11-30-2007 @ 12:36PM
J. sykes said...
no wai....
like xvid hd? or just sd res...
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11-30-2007 @ 12:41PM
FordGTGuy said...
DivX works up to 1080p go check the new gamesvideo video on the update.
11-30-2007 @ 12:37PM
jas0nuk said...
Woot XVID and DIVX confirmed :) Excellent update.
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11-30-2007 @ 12:41PM
EasyTarget said...
DIVX!!! Yes!!!
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11-30-2007 @ 12:42PM
monkeymonkeymonkey said...
Is it better to still use Tversity to stream Divx/Xvid or should I start using Windows Media Player 11 ?
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11-30-2007 @ 2:35PM
Michael Paul said...
I think TVersity pushes WMV through better than WMP11, but neither does a perfect job at displaying 8x FF so that when you hit Play again after say 5 minutes the scene being displayed is what plays. Reverse stinks for both due, I guess, to buffering first then playing.
What with 16x FF in this update, I hope somebody looks at performance issues...
11-30-2007 @ 3:55PM
Michael Paul said...
I did notice this in the Update details, which if it works will make life easier:
Removed potential 9 second delay when rewinding WMV video files
11-30-2007 @ 12:42PM
IncredibleBulk92 said...
Man your article is much more informative than the crappy gamerscore blog post. You might want to imbed that movie they have on their post btw, its nice too see things in action :)
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11-30-2007 @ 12:43PM
RudyHuxtable said...
It's kinda like dating a cute chick who lets herself go a bit but decides to go and work out, get a makeover and new porcelain veneers... and comes home to you. Yum.
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11-30-2007 @ 1:39PM
WeedBag said...
You can also make a silver account and get them to credit all your spent MS Points to that account to then re buy the arcade games. Since the games are console locked and account shared everyone on the console including your main account will be able to use the games now.
11-30-2007 @ 12:44PM
ccc said...
That is a nice update but, I still want to be able to play the arcade games I bought before my 360 crashed offline. Redownloading them dosn't work I've tried it. MS told me there was no way to fix it but that they where working on an answer with the fall update.
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11-30-2007 @ 12:56PM
lysernix said...
Checkout the wishlist & feedback forum on the xbox.com forums... there you'll find a 3,000+ reply thread detailing this issue. There *IS* a fix for this... it just requires them to manually swap serial numbers for you on their end.
It also (according to the many many stories on the thread) requires you to bug and bug and bug them relentlessly until finally they cave and help you out.
Not that this is a best solution or anything... but the answer isn't quite as simple as "can't happen".
11-30-2007 @ 12:45PM
Eddie said...
Nice update. Still no sleep timer or four way chat.
I'd rather have those than divX personally, but I'm glad MS is giving us the option.
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11-30-2007 @ 2:17PM
Phocas said...
That is what I want the most is 4-way Chat!! I heard that the original Xbox had it. Is that true?
11-30-2007 @ 2:52PM
Ethan Rom said...
Couldn't you use the parent timer thing as a sleep timer??
11-30-2007 @ 12:48PM
CharleyTony said...
this is a great update,, mostly tweaks of things that were already there but stil,...
the only thing I didnt get from Xbox this christmas will be CLAN support. :(
If they wont make it in the dashboard, can you tell me why games are shipping without it ?
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11-30-2007 @ 12:49PM
Godfa7h3r said...
I don't know what I'm more excited about, XviD/Divx support or that I'm finally becoming a Xbox Live adult.
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11-30-2007 @ 12:49PM
xenocidic said...
This is great, we no longer have to hear people whining about 1) divx and 2) persisting child accounts
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11-30-2007 @ 12:50PM
dunnypop said...
I totally forgot about 4 way chat.
considering Halo 3 limits you to chatting with more than 4 players during game play, I'm assuming this is probably the same reason they haven't done the 4 way yet.... just incase your playing online and talking with 3 other people?
and maybe to prevent collussion?
as for Divx... is this done through streaming from Windows? or can we put in a DVD filled with divx goodness?
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