modeps
10-29-2008, 10:48 AM
Are you one of the folks that loves Xbox Live Arcade so much that you've got your 360 setup to always download the newest releases? It's a simple option to enable and disable, but it appears that it hasn't made it over to the NXE. MTV Multiplayer (http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/10/29/new-xbox-experience-missing-feature/) is reporting:
While messing around with the New Xbox Experience on my home 360 last week, I had trouble finding my second favorite feature from the old dashboard: Xbox Live Arcade auto-downloading.
That feature allowed me to set my 360 to download demos of every new XBLA game any time I entered my XBLA games library and there was new content available. I was a big fan of the feature, because it enabled new games to come to me rather than me having to know about them and seek them out. Auto-downloading is not in the NXE.
When I was given a demo of NXE last week, I mentioned that I liked auto-downloading almost as much as I liked spying on the gaming habits of my friends on my buddy list. Microsoft v.p. John Schappert turned to me and said, “You actually use that?” He would know better than me how popular it is.
Yesterday, a Microsoft rep confirmed to me that the feature “is disabled for the NXE launch,” but added that “it may come back in a future release.”
I used to have this enabled, but then there was just too much to wade through. I'm guessing they removed it to alleviate some of the bandwidth usage.
While messing around with the New Xbox Experience on my home 360 last week, I had trouble finding my second favorite feature from the old dashboard: Xbox Live Arcade auto-downloading.
That feature allowed me to set my 360 to download demos of every new XBLA game any time I entered my XBLA games library and there was new content available. I was a big fan of the feature, because it enabled new games to come to me rather than me having to know about them and seek them out. Auto-downloading is not in the NXE.
When I was given a demo of NXE last week, I mentioned that I liked auto-downloading almost as much as I liked spying on the gaming habits of my friends on my buddy list. Microsoft v.p. John Schappert turned to me and said, “You actually use that?” He would know better than me how popular it is.
Yesterday, a Microsoft rep confirmed to me that the feature “is disabled for the NXE launch,” but added that “it may come back in a future release.”
I used to have this enabled, but then there was just too much to wade through. I'm guessing they removed it to alleviate some of the bandwidth usage.