The "New Xbox Experience" is a appealing affected name for a arrangement update, abnormally because it sounds like it will transform your animate into something absolutely new, which is misleading. Still, afterwards arena with the amend for added than a week, I'm impressed. Here are 5 important credibility to accede afore the chargeless amend goes reside on November 19.

It's absolutely just a card update

While Microsoft calls the new amend an "entirely new experience," it's absolutely just a automated card arrangement with a bigger online abundance and the accession of alive movies. Depending on what amateur you play, your "Xbox Experience," so to speak, will not change much. But the card is an improvement, and adept 360 owners can still admission the "Blade" card by acute the adviser button at any time, in-game even.

It will advice you ascertain new games

My admired affection of the amend is the revamped "Game Marketplace," which organizes all Xbox amateur -- including retail, Arcade titles, and Xbox Originals -- by box art and lets players array by alphabetical order, new arrivals, genre, and a new "most popular" category. That endure one is a abundant new way to see what others are playing, as able-bodied as acquisition new amateur you may accept missed. What's more, amateur accept their own committed "detail pages" now, which cover screenshots, descriptions, and all add-on agreeable in a individual location.

Streaming Netflix rentals are abreast perfect

The bigger amend to the new interface is calmly the accession of alive Netflix movies from computer to your Xbox. You'll accept to be a paying subscriber of both Xbox Reside Gold and Netflix to adore absolute streams, but man is it nice watching movies from PC or Mac to your console. The arrangement isn't perfect; sometimes it took the optimizer up to four times to adjudge what video superior to use with my broadband affiliation (a little annoying). But overall, I'm awash on the idea, and the affiliation amid Netflix and 360 is stunning.

Xbox Avatars attending bigger than Miis

I groaned if Microsoft absitively to borrow from Nintendo with the advertisement of Avatars in July. But afterwards creating my own, they've developed on me, and their use ads a bit of amore to what was aforetime a appealing algid experience. In a lot of ways, I anticipate Avatars are bigger than Miis. They attending cooler, there are added customization options to accept from, and the accomplishments music is delightful. I agnosticism they'll be as accepted as Miis, however, as you cannot email your Avatar creations to others. But there are a nice touch.

Live Party shows affiance for online multiplayer

The additional a lot of absorbing affection is the new "Live Party" system, which lets you articulation babble with up to eight Xbox Reside accompany while arena games, watching movies, or gawking at a photos. I was clumsy to examination this, unfortunately, and agnosticism how generally I'll wish to watch movies or appearance sideshows with a angle on. But it could end up getting a glossy new way to play assorted online amateur with your BFFs over the weekend, so delay for it.