You may have heard that the Xbox 360 has recently had lots of Web 2.0 functionality added. My initial reaction to it all is that the dashboard is so cluttered now! My Community, separate Music and Video Marketplaces (why would anyone want to download music videos to their 360 when they can most likely watch them for free on Youtube?), I wish you could hide channels you don’t want and/or wouldn’t use.
My thoughts on the new features:
Sky Player. We don’t have Sky at the moment, but we will do when we move into The Big House. This would be excellent, if our connection could handle the streaming. Laying in bed watching Lost and loads of cool movies on my nice big telly? Oh yes. Now I just need to convince everyone else that Sky Multi-room is a good idea.
last.fm would be better if you could stream music whilst playing. As it is, there’s no reason I should use it on my 360 as we have a PC in our room which is fully capable of using last.fm while I play on my Xbox 360 videogame console. I’ll stick to the PC version.
Facebook is alright for status updates I guess, but you can’t watch Youtube videos, play those little Facebook games or basically do anything more technical than looking at photos on it. I’ll stick to PC version.
I was quite interested in Twitter, just to subscribe to some videogame related stuff and see if I get any exclusive news or anything, but I don’t use it anyway so I don’t really feel I’m missing out on anything massive. I’ll stick to ignoring the PC version.
I’ve mentioned Halo: Waypoint before, but for completions sake I’ll mention it again now. It’s good for general Halo goodness such as articles on the “Making Of” of various Halo related things, I believe they are going to be showing Red vs Blue, from the beginning, which should raise a smile or two, and there are episodes of the Halo Legends series being shown for 24 hours only every Saturday. I’ve missed every single one so far. It is glaringly missing one thing though: I was fully expecting to go in there and be able to see an Xbox-ed version of my Bungie.net Halo stats – That would’ve been awesome. I’ll stick to Youtube and Bungie.net (PC versions).
It looks to me as if the Zune Marketplace has simply replaced the existing Video Marketplace. I never dowloaded any films before, and I’m unlikely to now. Can you still download films the old fashioned way instead of streaming them with the Zune thing? My connection isn’t good enough to stream films, FFS.
All in all, I’ll stick to the PC versions.
Now, an icanhazcheesburger dashboard app, that’d be awesome. LOLcats delivered to your 360, daily. OM NOM NOM.
