We still don’t have a date on when the new dashboard is actually going to land but it looks like a senior Product Manager over at Microsoft, Andrew Jenkins, may have let the cat out of the bag.
In an interview with Current magazine he goes on to say
“On the date we release it, it will be a global message to update the console and if you don’t do it through our connected service, you will be able to do it on disc, so when you buy the latest Gears of War, or whatever game purchased after the release of the Dash it will have the new Dashboard in the disc and it will automatically update your Xboxâ€
The bolded statement being the kicker, since Gears is releasing on the 7th of November we can happily presume the NXE is going to be released before that or on that day.
I highly recommend that Microsoft don’t release it on the day as 2 million angry Gears fans is a bad idea in anyone’s books.
Source: Current.com.au
*still no confirmation on whether the NXE is going to have that web browser either…
Last Updated: October 2, 2008
Werner
October 2, 2008 at 07:22
I’m starting to worry about the size of this new dashboard. How much is it going to cost us here in sunny SA to download this?
Macethy
October 2, 2008 at 07:29
Makes me glad that they say it will be available on game discs along with the game . . .
LazySAGamer
October 2, 2008 at 08:14
It will be quite small, remember the Arcade boxes don’t have a HDD so it will have to sit on the internal RAM…
It really shouldn’t be an issue
ninex
October 2, 2008 at 08:23
It should be about 16MB – 32MB. Thats the amount of space the xbox has for the OS (if i remember correctly)
Milesh Bhana ZA
October 2, 2008 at 08:47
“I highly recommend that Microsoft don’t release it on the day as 2 million angry Gears fans is a bad idea in anyone’s books.”
I’d also resigned myself to the fact that XBL is going to crash the day that GoW2 comes out.
ewie
October 2, 2008 at 09:21
Sometime mid October then, as they will have enough time to make sure everything work by the time of the big release.
gazza
October 2, 2008 at 11:14
My guess is late October, maybe Fable 2 time. Infact im going to predict that fable 2 infact also has the XBE on disc and the BXE releases on live a couple of days before it.