kotaku.com - 1/30/2009
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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....
gridplane.com - 1/30/2009
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XBOX Experience Gridplane spent a few months working
with Microsoft’s XBOX 360 group developing concepts for the
latest graphical user interface for the XBOX 360 console. The time was spent exploring many ways that a new menu system could allow users ...
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associatedcontent.com - 1/31/2009
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Street Fighter IV for the Microsoft Xbox 360
has a total of 47 achievements worth a total
of 100 0 Gamerpoints. Street Fighter IV achievements are listed in the format of Achievement Name - Gamerpoints - Achievement Details: 10 Years Too Early - 20 - ...
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Street Fighter IV Achievement List for the Xbox 360
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The New Xbox Experience That Almost Was [Nxe]
Gizmodo —
... dubbed The New Xbox Experience). Here is their work. 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 Kotaku]
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This is what the Xbox 360’s NXE used to look like
CrunchGear —
... For one, yes, those damn avatars were there from the get-go; thanks, Nintendo.
This view looks a lot like a view found in the MediaStream skin that’s in Plex.
And this screen shows hints of the old Blades interface.
Also, the theme is really “light,” right?
As nonplussed as I am with the NXE, I’d say the final product looks better than this iteration. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
via Kotaku
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