Xbox 360 System Update Now Updating

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Microsoft's Xbox 360 summer system update has gone live for all Xbox LIVE members. It's a mandatory update.

The update is being rolled out worldwide over the next few hours. Company spokesperson Major Nelson also points these three points out:

• While you can browse and purchase Avatar items and full Xbox 360 games in the console with this update, the ability to add these items your Xbox 360 download queue from Xbox.com will be available this Thursday.
• Xbox LIVE integration with Twitter, Facebook and Last.FM will be available later this year.
• Zune Video Marketplace will also ship later this fall when it will replace the current Video Marketplace.

While Twitter, Facebook and Last.FM are forthcoming, this update brings Games on Demand, the Avatar Marketplace, new Netflix features. Read more about the update here.

Update Now Available [Major Nelson]

nice...wish they would get on with the myspace app though.

My system performed an update yesterday but I never checked it through to excited that I managed to get my dodgy hard drive working. Funny thing is the Arcade upstairs did not update.

Ha £19.99 for every game is a joke.

Most Wanted and Carbon for 19.99? I could of got Undercover for £12 a few months ago.

Every single game on games on demand I can find down at my local gamesshop for under half the price.

This is what happens when you try to balance the needs of Bricks and mortar sales with internet/on demand sales like this.

I hope as time rolls on they improve the pricing.

They need to add more crap for me to download for my avatar. Everyone having the same crap makes me want to not have it (halo warthog).

I was hoping that the Games on Demand would follow the $15 price of the Xbox Originals.

I will be devastated when I see another Locust Cyclops Jedi.

MS will not compete with retail pricing. Retribution from retail outlets at this stage in the game could be disastrous for MS. The best way to combat the prices you see, would be not to buy anything. That way they either change their ways, or they stop offering the games.

Holy shit... Mass Effect is 6000 Microsoft point's in Australia and new Zealand! (£51/Us$81)