What do you want to see in the Spring Update?

[+Mystic MVC]

I want something done about the DVD drive noise! I really don't want to consistently hear that blow dryer and I supposedly have the "quieter" BenQ drive; quiet relative to what I wonder. Also, the disc doesn't have to spin when just idling on the dashboard.

Sadly, I don't think anything can be done. They could require the drives to only spin at 8x for instance, but that would increase loading times, screw up things in the game (streaming wise), etc. So either way you will have people complaining.

By the way, how close do you sit to your Xbox?

[kawasabi]

16:10 support!

[Code.Red]

16:10 support!

(Y)

Don't have high hopes that it's coming, though. :(

[kawasabi]

yeah, people are asking for it for ages now and it still isn't there.

must be very hard to do.

[Neo003]

The thing is ps3 streches 1900x1080 to 16:10 and it looks really good, I really don't see why it could be a harder to generate.

[Vandalsquad]

.mkv support! Thats all I want :(

[Kushan]

The 360 has a dedicated chip for upscaling images, separate from the GPU. It's extremely likely that this chip simply can't do 16:10 resolutions fast enough (And no, a software update wont fix that).

I reckon they were able to add 1080p support because it's the same ratio as 720p.

I want to see full MP4 support (currently it only outputs 2CH audio) and MKV support. Anything else would be a bonus.

[MillionVoltss]

1680x1050 Support.

Unrestricted group private chat.

Ability to add own harddisk and let the 360 format it.

Say the 360 formatted the new drive and you simply buy the data transfer kit to copy stuff to new drive. Microsoft could have a hardisk update pack with screwdriver and data trabsfre kit.

Buy to keep HD films. I see no point spending 2/3 hours dling a movie only for it to expire 24 hours after you watched it.

Basic web support evern if this could only view MSN and XBOX.com this could enable people without PC's ( there are people ) to view news and gamer stuff on there Xbox.

MSN hotmail support.

[Guest]

They really need to add a web browser.

[Kushan]

1680x1050 Support.

Unrestricted group private chat.

Ability to add own harddisk and let the 360 format it.

Say the 360 formatted the new drive and you simply buy the data transfer kit to copy stuff to new drive. Microsoft could have a hardisk update pack with screwdriver and data trabsfre kit.

Buy to keep HD films. I see no point spending 2/3 hours dling a movie only for it to expire 24 hours after you watched it.

Basic web support evern if this could only view MSN and XBOX.com this could enable people without PC's ( there are people ) to view news and gamer stuff on there Xbox.

MSN hotmail support.

The hard drive thing wont happen, you'd still need to buy a drive enclosure and hook it all up. It's nothing that can be changed via software alone.

Buying/keeping films wont be part of the update, they could do that right now if they wanted since it's literally just a flag they set at their end (kinda like how when you buy a game, even if you delete it, it's yours).

I believe they've had a web browser for a while now, but just decided not to deploy it since it's a nearly useless addition (face it, the 360 is all about Live so chances are you're connected as it is).

Plus I dread to think of all the possible security implications of it (the iPhone was hackable because of the browser it ran).

Hotmail support would require a web-based rendering engine of sorts (unless it only displayed plain text - almost useless, in other words), so it wouldn't be done without a web browser. And if you've got a web browser, you can just go to hotmail.com...

Personally, I'd like to see better integration of the chatpad. GTA4 is the ONLY game I've played that actually makes it worth having.

[.KICK]

-Subtitles support for your own media, much like Vista Media Centre does it, reads the subtitle file in the same folder and plays it

-NTFS support for external hard drives (Come on this is so needed)

Can't think of anything else for the moment really

[Kushan]

NTFS support is a good one! Subtitles would be nice, too.

[+InsaneNutter MVC]

Ability to add own harddisk and let the 360 format it.

You can do that, however it?s not quite as easy as that: http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EE...AVVpHxXqpYb.php

I?m thinking about buying this hard drive and giving it a :)y :): http://www.ebuyer.com/product/110273/show_product_reviews

[Nick Sheldon]

They really need to add a web browser.

I'd rather they didn't.

I don't want another security hole.

[Kushan]

What's it to you if the 360 has a security hole? Got any sensitive data on it?

[kylejn]

The main thing I want is greater flexibility in creating custom themes. After the great theming options on the PS3 (plus, they're all free!), it feels like such a scam to be paying for significantly crappier themes on the Xbox 360.

Other than that, I'm pretty happy with the state of the Xbox 360. I've got some dream things I'd want to see, like the ability to rip games to the HD and play them from there, but that'll never happen.

[Sethos]

Additional media support, like .VOB & .MKV.

Subtitle Support

Video Marketplace in Denmark

I'd love to see additional slots added to the chat, but this could add to cheating/ghosting in certain games and give some players

an unfair advantage.

[gaurav]

I would really like subtitle support for DivX/XviD, etc.

And probably a better marketplace for India (which seems hopeless).

[Huleboeren]

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Personally, I'd like to see better integration of the chatpad. GTA4 is the ONLY game I've played that actually makes it worth having.

What can you use the chatpad for in GTA4?

[Kushan]

Typing out websites lol

[Berserk87]

They really need to add a web browser.

thats the opposite of good.

[magik]

• XBL Gold for the CONSOLE
  
• Improved Menu Speeds
  
• Improve How Feedback is Submited, and More Options
  
• Full Codec Support
  
• Adjustable Fonts/Sizes
  
• Easier Way to Check Friends Online
  

-I'm sure everyone will agree with me on this one, XBL Gold should be for the accounts on the console, not just one account, my brother wants to play rockband and that on live, but i dont want him playing on my account to do it, it would mess up my own feedback and my achievements.

Although that is a nice idea in theory, it fails in games such as Halo 3 and other ranked based games. Because all of a sudden, you'll have countless 'new accounts' playing on levels that they're not supposed to be at and it will ruin it for everyone. So I actually hope they don't do that, making it cheaper or even free I'm all for though. Trust me, I'm not being biased here, I have 4 active Gold accounts on my console right now (no, they're not all mine, but still).

-Right now clicking the guide button, and checking friends/messages, seems very slow.

Agreed. Sometimes I don't even bother messaging my friends because I don't feel like waiting for the dame blade to 'slide' in. Argh! So frustrating.

-I think the feedback options need to be changed as well...i play halo 3 with my brother all the time, and he all of a sudden decides to start betraying people. now my feedback is messed up, because they cant submit back feedback for "guest" accounts.

I'll agree with the fact that the feedback interface needs to be changed, but I'll disagree with your request to change the feedback itself. If someone is on your guest account doing things they shouldn't, then you should be all means be held accountable for their actions, there is no excuse why you can't control who does what on your guest accounts and you deserve the negative feedback in that case.

However, what I would like them to change is the feedback interface. It is so painfully slow and takes way too many steps to give negative feedback (I think it is something like 6 or 7 levels deep!) that it often times isn't even worth the effort.

-This ones obvious, i want to be able to play any video format i want.

Easier said than done, but I would love this as well.

-Some of the menus on the dashboard look horrible to me, and i would like to be able to change the font, and make it smaller, so it looks sharp/clean.

Agreed. Never was a fan of themes that I had to pay for anyways, so if I didn't like a theme I would just not use it. :p

-I want a way to check friends online without going through the "guide" so i dont have to die 3 or 4 times to see whos online.

True, but this would be alleviated if they could just speed up the damn interface. Although it is MUCH improved over since the last UI speed fix, it still needs work IMO, especially during games.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

NTFS support is a good one! Subtitles would be nice, too.

NTFS support for sure.

Doesn't MS own NTFS?

I understand the PS3 not supporting it because if I'm correct about the above they'd need to pay a licensing fee to MS right?

But if MS own NTFS, I dunno why they can't allow their own console to support it.

The guy(s) who said Gold activates a console, not accounts - Good idea, but what happens when you recover your gamertag on someones console who doesn't pay for gold? You don't get access to gold?

Right now you could go round your mates and he's on silver, but if you recover your tag you can be gold.

[Kushan]

Microsoft owns NTFS, yes. It's not something you can license, though, they've kept the file system's specification hidden from public. The clever linux boys have reverse engineered it quite well, but it's not perfect (in like 0.0001% of cases, it can corrupt the entire partition) so it's probably not worth Sony's time to support it. Plus it'd be under the GPL, so they wouldn't be able to use it, either.

Technically, you can get NTFS support by running linux on the PS3, but it's not quite the same.

It still boggles the mind as to why the 360 doesn't support it, though. Especially since it's OS is based off of Windows 2000...

[funkyjunky]

I'd like to see:

• Clan Chats- Where you can chat with up to 8 people at a time.
  Bigger Friends List- Self-explanatory
  Popups for new updates that come out for your games.