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xbox.joystiq.com - 1/30/2009

Gridplane shows off what the NXE could have been

— xbox.joystiq.com — Design and animation studio Gridplane has revealed one of the many mock-ups it developed for Microsoft as... a potential user-interface update, which later became the NXE . Tasked with creating new ways for users to interact with multimedia, this ... (more) Gridplane shows off what the NXE could have been

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This Is The New Xbox Experience That Could Have Been [Xbox 360]

— kotaku.com — Design firm Grid/plane worked with Microsoft on early design ideas for the New Xbox Experience. While the... NXE we ended up with is a different beast, it's interesting looking at what could have been.... (more) This Is The New Xbox Experience That Could Have Been ...

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Microsoft Responds To December NPD Sales, Seems Pleased [Corporate Gloating]

— kotaku.com — Microsoft is pretty positive about the Xbox 360s showing in December, calling it "the biggest month for... Xbox 360 in history." The company boasts outselling its Sony competition two-to-one for the... (more) Microsoft Responds To December NPD Sales, Seems Pleased ...

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Gridplane shows off what the NXE could have been
Joystiq [Xbox] — ... Design and animation studio Gridplane has revealed one of the many mock-ups it developed for Microsoft as a potential user-interface update, which later became the NXE. Tasked with creating new ways for users to interact with multimedia, this ...

This Is The New Xbox Experience That Could Have Been [Xbox 360]
Kotaku — ... a different beast, it's interesting looking at what could have been. While Grid/plane's ideas obviously centred around a new menu system, they also "dreamt up an immersive 3D environment for users to explore the latest games, events and online activity within the XBOX Live community". Sounds familiar... [image] Anyway, if you're interested in checking out an alternate history, one where the "new" Xbox experience looks a lot like the "old" one, only with avatars, hit the link below. Grid/plane Xbox [Grid/plane, via ...

The New Xbox Experience That Almost Was [Nxe]
Gizmodo — ... Many screens look like little more than an enlarged, green-filtered version of the original 360 dashboard, but the company developed an "immersive 3D environment" (probably seen in that first shot) to navigate much of the system. My favorite screen is actually the simplest—where all of your games span your television. Screw the folks with tiny displays who'd have to squint. I have a big TV. [Gridplane via ...

This is what the Xbox 360’s NXE used to look like
CrunchGear — ... before Microsoft said, “There, that’s it!” Grid/plane, a design studio that helped Microsoft develop the NXE, has released a few screenshots of an early version of the NXE, some of which I’ve put here. ...

Gridplane releases hazy NXE mockup that never was
Engadget — ... Design / animation studio Gridplane's recently unloaded photos of a mockup it contributed to the Microsoft Xbox team in charge of revamping the Xbox user interface, which eventually became the New Xbox Experience, AKA NXE. There are a few things here we ...

The New XBOX Experience - Gridplane
D' Technology Weblog — ... latest graphical user interface for the XBOX 360 console. The time was spent exploring many ways that a new menu system could allow users to browse and navigate game libraries, music, movies and TV shows. Oh, and play games too. In addition to the menu systems, we dreamt up an immersive 3D environment for users to explore the latest games, events and online activity within the XBOX Live community.   More info: Gridplane ...