New Xbox One Features and Dashboard Detailed, Coming November

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Today Microsoft detailed the new features and user interface coming this November for the Xbox One. Grab a cup of coffee and sit down in your couch, because there’s a lot to take in.

Play your Xbox 360 games on Xbox One. At launch you’ll be able to play over 100 Xbox 360 games on Xbox One with hundreds more in the months to come. This includes the added benefit of Xbox One features including screenshots, streaming, and game DVR – for your favorite Xbox 360 games. You can even play multiplayer with friends still using their Xbox 360.

A new Guide lets you quickly access essentials with just one button press to save time spent weaving in and out of apps. You can access the Guide from Home by pressing left or double tap the Xbox button on your controller to instantly overlay the Guide. You can access Friends, quickly start a Party, get to Settings, see System Notifications, view your Messages, and more from Home or without leaving your game. These are the top tasks Xbox fans do most often, so we focused on making them faster and easier to get to without disrupting your game.

We’re redesigning Home to make it faster and easier to get to the things you love. We’re introducing a faster and easier interface to provide access to games and apps you’ve recently used. At launch you’ll be able to more easily share your achievements and game clips with the Xbox Live community, see whether your friends are playing the same games and get one-click access to Game Hubs to get news and updates directly from the developers and community themselves.

We’re introducing a new Community section to make Xbox One more social.Based on your feedback, this section is optimized to help you tap into what other gamers are doing on Xbox Live and directly contribute to the conversation happening within the Xbox Live community. Check out what your friends are up to or keep track of the games you follow in the redesigned Activity Feed. Explore the new Trending section to view the most popular posts from players on Xbox Live.

The revamped OneGuide will be your single destination for TV, movies and video apps. From OneGuide, you can see a list of current trending live TV shows with the most viewers at that moment on Xbox. TV listings will now come up instantly and in full-screen, and we’ve added a picture-in-picture mode for TV so you can browse for other things to watch without missing what’s happening in your show. We’ll highlight a selection of the most exciting new movies, TV shows and deals from across the apps on Xbox One and the new App Channels area will show you the latest movies, TV shows and videos highlighted by the apps you care about.

We’re optimizing Store to help you quickly find the content you want. To the right of OneGuide, you’ll find the new and improved Store with features including four easy to explore areas – Games, Movies & TV, Apps, and Music – and a new vertical gallery view to bring more listings at a glance. Browse through intuitive categories like Staff Picks, New Releases, Top played, Top rated, Coming Soon and Recommendations to discover new games, apps, and entertainment for your Xbox One.


Additionally, the new UI will allow you to access “popular gaming features” up to 50% faster, which is always a good thing.

The new update will roll out to select preview members over the next couple of weeks. Invites will be sent out via Xbox Live messages, allowing those invited to opt in (or not, if they prefer not to test this rather large update).

Those who opt in will receive new builds over a period of several weeks, as the development team hammers out glitches and fixes bugs, until the new Xbox One experience is ready to roll out to the public in November.

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Source: http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/09/10/new-xbox-one-features-and-dashboard-detailed-coming-this-november/

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SkittlePosted:

The only feature I would love is for the Xbox 360 Indie Games to come to Xbox One.

PinkRibbonPosted:

This looks really good, Glad to see some new features to the Xbox One.

KexPosted:

Looks great
Can't wait for this to be released

JRMHPosted:

As long as the UI is faster fam...

JastyPosted:

Pumped for the new UI, almost as exciting as when the 360 changed from the first one.

TiffxnyPosted:

man im stilll getting used to the current dashboard and when i do it will change hah

JM-Posted:

I finally think xbox one > PS4 after this update. The backwards compatibility is amazing.

ehPosted:

So happy they are redoing the entire dashboard, thats my main issue with the xbox one the dashboard is garbage

OfficiallyPosted:

really can't wait for this update :D

-SpyroPosted:

XxJordan123xX
OXT I hope that skate 3 and gta 4 will be playable with this update.


tbh i like gta 4 over gta 5


But 4 gets so boring, and the cars handle like boats :(