New Xbox Experience Is Only Half The Picture
Jerry Johnson, Xbox LIVE boss for Europe, has told CVG that “half the things” that were supposed to be included in the New Xbox Experience were cut.
“There’s still a lot of stuff we want to do,” Johnson told CVG in an interview. “Half the things we wanted to do [in NXE] we cut out of the service.
“One of the nice things we did was this architectural change to make things more published and driven from the service. All of a sudden we opened up the platform to say ‘I don’t have to wait until once or twice a year to release something onto the dashboard’.
“There’s a Photo Party app that will be part of the platform,” the XBL man added. “The way it will be distributed is all of a sudden you’ll see a slot on the dashboard and if you don’t have it you click on it and it’s going to download from the service onto your application part of the dashboard. Those are the type of things we’re going to start doing.”
Johnson has stated that Xbox LIVE Primetime, a service that will allow Xbox LIVE users to partake in game show-styled online games, will launch in Spring 2009.
“I think we’re going to see more social, more content-type apps. I also think from a platform perspective we can continue to do a lot of new things,” he said.
November 19th is the date.