Xbox 360's new Zune, Last.fm, Facebook and Twitter features detailed on video
By Paul Miller 
posted Oct 7th 2009 2:19PM
posted Oct 7th 2009 2:19PM
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HOW DO I GET THIS DELICIOUSNESS IN MY MOUTH?!
Buy a gun.
lol
That's what she said!
Whoah!
You can't do anything else while listening to Last.fm?
Yikes.
Otherwise, I'm as excited about these new features as I was when they were first announced, but that one....man, that sucks.
Still, it's a step forward. I'm loving the new Netflix expansion.
Pretty big deal that you can now purchase HD movies on Xbox 360, in my opinion. Also you can finally use their video store with all Xbox 360's since it doesn't require hard drive space anymore. People with Core/Arcade/20GB systems couldn't really use the video store previously. Now that they've moved to streaming video it opens up the service to everyone.
Great news! Congratulations to all.
When I saw her gamertag I read it as filthybatteries.
When I saw her gamertag, I saw fiftybatteries and thought well there's somebody using the controller and a warthog for an unintended purpose. Be a bit more environmentally friendly, get a 'Play and Charge' kit.
It would be kinda nice if they let you listen to the radio while playing on Live.
They said "not currently" so it could be in the works.
Why would you need a radio just get a 4GB flash drive throw on a crap load of singles and press play easy fix.
why bother when the crazy noise of the machine drowns out anything except the sound of (in-game) explosions.
@zioncat
Half the reason services like Pandora and Last.FM are so popular is because it's like listening to radio but everything you want to listen to. So you'll hear new artists and songs but it'll be things that you want to hear. A 4gig drive with music you listened to before can't do that.
@ScooterDe
That's why there's a volume control...
I think MS is starting to get that anti-multitasking bug from Apple. I bet we won't see 3rd party apps either....
why bother with a 4gb thumb drive when you could just pull up your entire music library off your network... ????
Don't understand why they chose to support Last.FM users, but not Zune music. Weird.
Zune 4.0 software has pretty much identical functionality to Last.FM. This move sort of rips out the rug from under the Zune team. Last.FM has a similar artist screensaver and music preferences system to Zune. Xbox 360 functionality could have sold a lot of music and Zune Passes.
Two words: portable radio. Or do the network thing, but I couldn't get it to stream on 64-bit Windows 7, even with all kinds of different media servers.
Cool8man: Amazing point, you'd think Microsoft would be into integration or something, right?
Wow. I cannot wait for this. When is it coming?
On one of the promotional things for the 360 Elite Rebate which pimped the update as benefits, November was listed as the release month in the fine print.
Kotaku says before Christmas this year.
But when will it arrive! We have had most of this info for over a year. I want Zune Marketplace! You lucky people in the US have Netflix, but here in Europe they havnt released that!
Please MS, give us a release date!
lmao at the trolling on uncharted 2
It was a pretty relevant point. As soon as I heard someone say, "That's cool," I was hoping someone would speak up for how lame it actually is to have twitter flooded with gaming posts. The only thing that would make sense is to tweet that you're starting a multiplayer game so friends can join you.
Any particular reason they didn't show you the live TV streaming service that is coming later this month?
I think that is only in the UK with SkyTV.
And that means they don't demo it because...
(It is also in France with Canal+)
I WOULD LOVE A FEATURE WHERE I CAN TWEET EVERY BUTTON I PRESS, SIMULTANEOUSLY LISTENING TO LAST.FM AND GENERATING A NEW STRIPPER NAME ON FACEBOOK WHILE I DECIMATE CRITTERS ON VIVA PINATA.
say it dont spray it
This please.
Or, better yet, don't say it at all.
I had a feeling you can't stream music while playing games since sometimes it stops downloading your items when connecting online...
how about make a web browser like the one in ps3?
So we can have yet another device with a browser? I have one on my computer, cellphone and mp3 player, do I really need another one on my game console?
Because you might use it to go to http://www.apple.com
@Mark
Yes
@Mark I'm not fan of facebook nor twitter and i'm not familiar of last.fm, i like going to other websites like youtube, engadget in my consoles and i'm currently using my ps3 to comment on this website right now
"Mad Men is a show about people in their early sixties?"
"Um, no, it’s set in the early Sixties."
"Oh, it’s not people in their sixties."
"No, no, no. That’s a different show."
"Yeah, but my, this uh, says about people in their early sixties."
"That just says 'do you like websites?'"
"Do you like websites?"
"Sure. Yeah."
"Yeah, I heard that you like websites."
"Where did you hear that?"
"On a website."
you people just don't want to stfu about browsers on consoles. You are already on a computer. microsoft has already stated ages ago that there will not be a browser. Just imagine the unnecessary stuff like java plugs, cookies, pix, flash ads perhaps even bait sites to hack ur xbox and grab your informations. Theres no way I'm going to risk myself just for a browser that is an open door to a hacker.
Honestly, have you ever actually surfed the web on your PS3? Get a netbook and keep it on the coffee table.
i'm currently in the ps3 surfing the web
"i'm currently in the ps3 surfing the web"
No wonder the damn thing is running hot today!
Microsoft already has a web browser that is as awful as the PS3 browser so I guess it wouldn't be too hard to implement it into the Xbox 360. Now, if they wanted to integrate a GOOD browser that would be much harder. Ironically, they could simply look at how Nintendo did it (Opera). So much about multimedia capabilities, eh?
@ Mark:
You are the biggest MS fanboy I have every seen. You are about as bad as the Apple fanboys. All they ever do is ramble on about how something an Apple product doesn't have is actually a good thing (like flash on the iPhone). That is exactly what you are doing now.
I think most people on this site know that having a browser on the 360 would be a good thing especially considering what could be done with it. For instance, the PS3 has had YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter support for a while now simply because it has a browser. It even had Hulu before it got stopped. Yet you still consider having a browser a bad thing? Oh, wait. You don't. You just can't even think about saying something bad about MS.
PS
Don't call me a fanboy. I own products by Apple, MS, and Sony and I love them all.
boing!!!
Well I guess I need to buy me a chatpad.
...or a USB keyboard, they work just fine as well.
Convenience factor....also, I can get the messenger gold pack and get it with a 13 month card for marginally more than the card on its own
i have a mini usb keyboard with the usb plugged in the back all the time, its pretty great.
I got one about two months ago in anticipation of FB, Twitter, etc being added. It is pretty nifty.
Amazon (did? I haven't checked before posting this) has that bundle with PGR4 (lol) a headset, chatpad, and 12 month card for like 60 bucks.
Great deal if you need any of those things + can use the 12 months.