Xbox Live Team Working On Their 360 Dash Speed

By Mike Fahey

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According to Major Nelson's latest podcast, the Xbox Live Team is working towards making a harder, better, faster, and indeed stronger Xbox Live Dashboard for the next update later this year.

Some of you have taken issue with the slow speed of the New Xbox Experience, and Major Nelson and the rest of the Xbox Live team have taken notice. In his latest podcast, the Major promises that the next major dash update will see a much faster guide. Just don't call it a performance enhancement, whatever you do.

"The team has done some really good stuff around making performance enhancements. 'Performance enhancements' doesn't sound right because it sounds like we're going to give the guide a little blue pill, and we're not doing that. Whatever we call it (and it's not going to be called the NNXE), but whatever the next version of the dashboard is called, it's better with a lot of very cool new features. That update will be out later this year"

Thank goodness, because if the Xbox Live team had released a dashboard update that was worse in every way, they'd be Vista team, and they keep the two separate for a reason.

Show #323: E3 2009 and Iraq [Major Nelson via CVG]

I'm happy to hear this. NXE has been pretty slow lately.

It has been getting slower for me as of late. Sometimes I cannot even press the purchase button on stuff because content is taking its sweet as time to load. Hopefully they have resolved the issues. They said on the podcast that this update that they are doing in the fall is even bigger than the NXE one.

Good.  Its been really slow for me.  Freezes up all the time.

I think they need to speed up the booting speed, when you turn it on it takes a while to get on the DB

Finally! I am now a happy man and may finally agree that the NXE is better then the old slides.

Yay, hope they hurry!

Some guy counted 23 frames of latency or 3/4 of a second lag between inputs and response with the NXE. I think theres a LOT of room for improvement here.

NXE runs fine on mine however it can take a while to load content but i think this is my conection

@Wanda

Nah, it's not your conection. I have very fast connection and it take awhile to load content. I read this is because the way Live querie your account to see what you have purchased etc.

It's been faster for me since the last maintenace but the content is slower again since they fix the Marketplace.