Xbox Experience coming 11/19 - requires 128mb of space

[Altimus]

Well it was confirmed earlier this week for the 19th of November. It was also confirmed today that it requires at least 128mb.

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Microsoft has released an official statement stating that the New Xbox Experience will require 128MB of free space (a hard drive is recommended to "take advantage of some new features"). The company also said that "a small percentage of Xbox 360 owners do not have enough memory to accommodate the update" and will be "offering storage solutions to the Xbox LIVE community."

Are you guys excited about this update? Or just eh, another update.

[ExtremeGamer]

Very excited, the new dash just looks awesome.

[Cyros]

Storage solutions better mean cheaper HDD.

[boomhauertjs]

I'm curious to see how well the Netflix streaming works.

[mgoblue]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cyros

Storage solutions better mean cheaper HDD.

Hopefully, but either way they've got to do something free for non-HD people because otherwise they lose Xbox Live for those users unable to upgrade. MS is in another horrible situation because of an even more dumb design decision (check out 5W-G for more info, Shawn's been screaming this for years 5W-G Told you so article

[Altimus]

Quote: Originally Posted by mgoblue

Hopefully, but either way they've got to do something free for non-HD people because otherwise they lose Xbox Live for those users unable to upgrade. MS is in another horrible situation because of an even more dumb design decision (check out 5W-G for more info, Shawn's been screaming this for years 5W-G Told you so article

Interesting read and I agree. They must have known the specs for this software way before it was even announced at E3. I doubt they went to the IT team and asked when will it be done and got a reply of: 11/19, oh and by the way, it requires 128mb of memory.

It will be interesting to see. Saying go buy a HDD will ignite a media fire storm; giving away free 256MB will cost a lot of money and as you stated, won't really be 256MB.

They might have to strip down some features and just leave the necessary ones and find a way to store it on the OS reserved memory and have two updates. We'll see, either way it will be interesting to see how MS tackles this.

[CaptainZombie]

Quote: Originally Posted by XLR3

Well it was confirmed earlier this week for the 19th of November. It was also confirmed today that it requires at least 128mb. Are you guys excited about this update? Or just eh, another update.

I am excited, my system won't sound like a jet engine anymore with this update.

[BrianFifaFan]

Quote: Originally Posted by GeonosisX

I am excited, my system won't sound like a jet engine anymore with this update.

That's my biggest excitement. I'm gonna put both Fifa09 and NBA2k9 om my HDD!