The XBOX 360 dashboard update has been released on XBOX Live and there are already people griping about some of it’s features. The full feature list is listed in my previous post here.
Turns out that the IM feature that everyone was looking forward to is unavailable for any account that is deemed a Child account, i.e., younger than 18 years old. The ironic part is that the people who would most probably use this feature are the younger than 18 crowd rather than the older crowd.
With the little time that I have for gaming, if I were to get onto the 360, I’d rather spend my time playing a game than sitting there IM’ing people.
This is indeed a very curious course of action for Microsoft.
Cheers
well, it’s tied into live messenger, right? that does voice and video, last I checked. so I’d assume you could get a voice conversation going with someone on their xbox from, say, your office. not a bad thing to be able to do, and it helps them sell the live for windows side of it.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s hooked into the live service it does show a level of integration between the XBOX and PC offerings. Especially now that some games will provide cross-platform gaming.
I did the update and more than the Live messenger integration, it’s cool to have the Marketplace blade all on it’s own.