While many of you have been involved in the Xbox LIVE Preview Program and have been busy getting an early look at the next Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE features, I wanted to let you know that the official release for the update for all Xbox LIVE members will be Tuesday, December 6th. In this update, free to all console owners, you will see:
New personal and social features including Cloud Storage for Game Saves and LIVE Profile
Beacons and Facebook Sharing
Enhanced Family Settings
Integrated voice and gesture controls across the dashboard and in apps
Bing voice search (Available this year in the US, UK and CA)
In addition to all these great dashboard features, starting on December 6th and continuing on an ongoing basis through the holiday months, a wealth of new content will be coming to Xbox 360. New, customized applications for television, movies, internet videos, sports and music will begin rolling out from world-leading providers in more than 20 countries.
http://majornelson.com/2011/11/22/xbox-360-dashboard-update-coming-december-6th/
The 'cloud storage' sounds like a pretty nice idea. As long as it's free (hotmail / spaces storage is free so I suppose it probably will be). No more using up your hard disk / internal storage for save games. Actually I get a bit annoyed on the new xbox that there are two places to save, and I always forget where my games are. It's only two tries to get it right, but one storage location would be nice. Plus loading games on another console will be a benefit (only to a select few people, granted, but I am one of those).
Voice / gesture, blah blah, I don't have a kinect yet like (I think) most people, but I can't deny it looks a bit fun.
Unsurprisingly it looks a bit Windows 8-esque. Which I think works here (and absolutely not on a Windows desktop, but let's not get into that...)
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Be nice.