Xbox One Update Planned to Fix Social Features
"The feedback we've gotten is pretty valid."
by Luke Karmali
January 9, 2014
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Microsoft has revealed a massive Xbox One update is planned to fix features "hidden or harder to use" than they were on Xbox 360.
Speaking to Engadget, chief product officer Marc Whitten revealed plans to consolidate features like Friends Lists, Parties, Avatars and Achievements all in one place, as the resounding feedback has been they're too spread out.
"The feedback we've gotten is pretty valid," he admitted. "Some of the social stuff is hidden or harder to use than it was on the Xbox 360. So you're gonna see us come out with an update where, well, we're going to fix those things.
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Some of the social stuff is hidden or harder to use.
"As a person who's been pretty involved in building Xbox Live for the last decade, I take it pretty seriously when people say it's harder to get into a party, and the defaults aren't right, and I don't like the model.
"So what I'm trying to do with the team is kind of theme some stuff up. Let's take an update and really go through a big list of what we're hearing from customers, what we know is broken with the architecture, areas that we want to improve or complete. I think that's a theme you'll really see us push on -- that Live experience."
Finally, Whitten commented on Xbox One's missing Twitch broadcast capabilities that we reported on earlier, intimating that he hoped it'd be available on the console before E3 in June. When asked about when we may see it he responded: "This is not 100 percent, but my general strategy at E3 is to talk about things that are gonna happen from that E3 to the next E3. So, we are not yet to the next E3."
Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/01/09/xbox-one-update-planned-to-fix-social-features