Poll: What Do You Think Of The New Xbox Home Experience?

The bar or the line under the game icons should definitely get hidden. I do not want to see Xbox Game Store ads in my dashboard. Plus, it is causing unnecessary clutter.

Really like it. Looks great and I can actually see my background now! Unlike others, the ads don't bother me in the slightest and might actually help me find new games to enjoy.

"Adds an option to change your background to match the game you are highlighting in the recently played list."

been lookin for this option and still cant find it.

It's much better; cleaner, quicker to navigate settings and other options and it seems smoother to me.

I haven’t checked it out yet but I still get hit with nostalgia everytime I think of the 360 Blades 💚

It has more Ads so sorry it’s worse.

People have spent upto £500 on an X and sub £150 a year to GPU.

We shouldn’t be covered with Ads

It's the perfect style with smaller tiles and adding shortcuts that I usually use with the home button, but the last row of bigger tiles is more unnecessary than ever, just clutter. When are they going to get rid of it or make it optional? The additional stuff on the bottom doesn't bother because it's invisible unless you scroll down, but I noticed that my pins are below Recently added to Game Pass...

@Banjo- I noticed this. I'm not so bothered about what's on those screens below, but I'd like to be able to at least change the order and get pins or whatever else up at the top

I can still play my games, so it's good?

@Kezelpaso I completely agree. I would also like to be able to at least change the order. Our own pins should be above any information that Xbox wants us to check. At least, we got those handy shortcuts on top!

It's nice that the Game Pass icon is just white unlike Nintendo Online on Switch, that is a sparkling red icon on a grey user interface.

EDIT: My pins on the dashboard are actually my first group with the applications. Weird. I guess that they will tweak that part.

I didn't see my choice:

The UI charges are akin to a war crime - it should be hastily taken out back, unceremoniously shot and thrown in a ditch to rot.

It is a UI filled from top to bottom with ads I cannot opt of. It offers no additional convenience. Rather, Microsoft is using my bandwidth and hardware to increase their revenue and I can see a slightly larger half of a static picture with no additional function. Definition of anti-consumer trash.

@Kezelpaso My "pins" on the dashboard are actually my first Group with applications. I added a random game (Banjo-Kazooie) to the home screen and now it shows up below the first Group on the dashboard. It's like pins have disappeared, you can add games to Home like before and the first Group appears after Recently added to Game Pass and before games added to Home. Weird. I guess that they will tweak that.

@DrArshi Strangely I don't even bother with that to be honest. I just have whatever theme I want.

Been on this update for awhile, it's alright. 2 steps forward, 2 steps back.

When will these clowns make the dashboard HDR? Thats the real crime, clutter the dam thing up with even more ads and make me scroll even further for my pins if it means my TV doesnt turn off for 3 seconds going in and out of games, all because MS wont throw a damn HDR on option in the UI. It"s so annoying.

Honestly I don’t think I noticed a difference. I could have been In the new UI for a while.

I boot up my console. Play my most recent game. Turn off console. Sometimes I’ll look at the Game Pass or the Store but not much else.

It's plays the games I want to play, so it's fine. It's a dashboard, it's hardly ever used at all. All 3 consoles have dashboards that are fine

You need a 6th option: "It hasn't been pushed to my console yet".

@Cashews Bit of an extreme response there. As for your choice - you don't get one, it's Xbox's OS, they can change as they see fit.

Not siding with Xbox here as I'm kinda meh with the new dashboard, having had it longer than most due to being an Xbox Insider.

I do like that I can see more of my custom background now though.

I wonder how many people know that you can send Microsoft a bill for the advertising space on your TV screen. If they don't agree to your terms, they have to remove it. Send them a bill for some insane amount of money, like $1 million per day per square inch. If enough people did that, I'm sure those ads would disappear very quickly for everyone.

@Acurisur Unlike most of the people here, I don't willingly intend on being quiet while MS shovels their crap down my throat. Something sucks, like this, I'm going to speak up. It's all I got in this case.

You are right they can change it at will. And I can publicly rake them over the coals at every opportunity. It's a relationship after all. A two way street. Poor goodwill is my only weapon which can be effective at times.

I have a hard time understanding how anyone can be okay with having a UI whose central design is force feeding you their ads while you receive more of a picture. It's one thing if you get something out of the deal. That isn't the deal here.

A few improvements, but I'll never understand why some people are OK with the Ads.
There are only two other consoles in contention right now and neither of them shove adverts at me on my home screen. With MS pushing ever further into the mobile gaming space and soon owning more studios who regularly focus on MTX and other such shenanigans (looking at you Blizzard), users should be drawing a line in the sand and saying no more, not bending over and saying ' it hurts at first, but you get used to it'.

Its hardly an over-riding issue that's gonna make me dump my series X, but it does demonstrate that I cant trust MS - and I never have.

Yeah, it feels like I'm constantly on the store app and I'm not a fan. Sure it looks a bit better than the ui before, but now I have to scroll past the "most played games" bar before I can actually get to my stuff. Terrible, but then what do you expect from a company that makes you pay extra for rechargeable batteries in their controllers in 2023. Nintendo and Sony definitely aren't perfect, but Microsoft is so jerky with some of the things they do.

Bring back the blades.

I still don't have it. I'm part of the early program and still haven received this for my series X. It's been really annoying.

I like the homepage. It’s fairly close to being just right. But i do not like what’s underneath, it’s a sea of ad’s or apps i never use or even care to know the system has. If i could remove that stuff and use what i want in that space this would be a really nice update. But MS what the heck guy’s, why so many ad’s and pushing things in people’s faces? It’s just an eyesore under the home screen at the moment.

It's all right l, I really never had a problem with the previous nor I thought it was particularly bad. I guess I was kinda used to it and could get where I needed to fast so wasn't bad, same on this one. Just wanna play my games really

Oh right, I don't spend enough time on the UI, I'm too busy choosing a game to play.

I've been using it for a while now and my only real complaint has been how I can't customize the first bar below the main home screen. If I could make that my custom selection of apps that would be a lot better.

It's "coming soon" for me.

Everything above your recent games is great.cna actually we our backgrounds now. Even though a lot is still hidden like on the pentameten background.

Below though is a dumpster fire
I don't care about the most played games. Just looks like ads for the games that make the most money.

Customization took a back seat to this as well.

It still blows my mind that despite paying premium for these consoles, and for the online services, made by the company with the most funding behind it, orders more than Nintendo or Sony, they still provide a less usable, and more ad riddled, experience.

Looks like the complaints are largely similar on reddit and X as well.

At this point I'm thinking of selling my Series X and getting a PS5 with Xbox style controller. Atleast there I won't be bombarded by ads and have a proper controller with gyro instead of being in the stone ages on Xbox.

It's absolutely terrible. From 10 groups to 2 and a bunch of ads I don't care about. Requested refund for my game pass ultimate that just renewed because I don't want to see ***** Fortnite ads.

Still not got it yet, probably best to wait until everyone has it to do the poll or add a "I don't have it yet" option

@K1LLEGAL what's worse is countless, recent, fan concepts have made blades a more usable dashboard than anything we've had in the last decade.

Suggestions of games to play that I don't currently own are ads by definition.
Now it's 99% ads. And people seem chill with it, so I guess it is the right direction. Can't wait till ads are in the games too eh?

@Titntin of course they will be fine with Ads, some can’t criticise MS/accept criticism.

Before long MS will try putting an Ad before you play a GP title (ie YouTube) and it will still be lapped up.

So where is the option for: 'Terrible, I want microsoft to stop treating me like a cash cow'

(I know I'm using the term cash cow incorrectly, but I'm sure you get my point regardless)

I just realised that you can add groups to Home. Select the group and press the menu button. There should be options to arrange the order of all the stuff when you scroll down. Most importantly, the home screen would be more beautiful without the bigger tiles row at the bottom.

It's definitely moving in the right direction, but I'd like to be able to customize the tab order.

Also, am I the only one who would like to get more dynamic wallpapers?

@InterceptorAlpha I wonder if Microsoft knows why they are continually in last place- the biggest loser behind Nintendo and Sony - always.

Capcom had this problem circa 2010. They were trying to figure out in the new age of DLC how they could maximize revenue. So they started piecing out all of their costumes from the game. Then they were so bold, as was the case with Asura's Wrath, to actually take out important storylines and try to sell THAT.

Crapcom is what everyone called them for years. They were abandoned by so many including me. I think they saw this, retooled and came back as simply a developer who made great games first - then would try to sell you stuff later-but not game breaking items. Now they are referred to as Capgod.

This is Microsoft. They are losers in this console battle. But instead of thinking "what can we do to enhance our customer's experience?" they sit around and "How can we fool these mindless dopes and show them more ads?"

This is the result. And it will get them nowhere. All just desserts. Ultimately, Microsoft is garbage - they have always been about seeing you as their personal ATM machine first and foremost. Eventually - it may take a decade or longer- they are going to sell this division at a mind-boggling loss and unless they can develop with the end-user in mind first - frankly good riddance.

I really hate it! Really hate it. I had 5 lines before now I have 20 90% of which are un-skippable un-removable ads..

I didn’t see an option for ‘I hate all the endless endless mandatory ads on it’

@Fishticon If they had ads for every loading screen (elevator ride) in game people would lap it up and praise it!

It’s an ad infested dumpster fire.

So, I don't like the "most played games" stuff. Can I remove it?

@Lup Nope, you cannot remove ANY of it, only your groups you set up. Everything else nadda, and that’s the HUGE problem with it. It’s fast yes, I can see my desktop, well the top half anyway. But scroll down two clicks and it’s ad infested city and no way out.

I hate that I can't get rid of certain categories!
I don't use streaming applications and will NEVER put them on my game console.
I don't want ads for youtube or hbo or netflix!

@ThatMusicFan you nailed it. Thats what i have been saying. Let me customize the bottom rows that don’t pertain to me, which honestly is like all of it and please MS give the Ui HDR. Been asking for that since the PS5 launched and had it. I like the home screen. Seems plenty good for what it’s intended to do. But the sea of add’s underneath is a huge no for me.

It looks better from the images shown, but I can’t say for sure since my Xbox hasn’t updated yet and I haven’t experienced the new ui myself to say that it is better.

theres alot of people that must never scroll down on their UI because if they did you would realise how disgusting it truly is

why do i need two links to the store on the main page isnt one enough ?

@Banjo-you always could add groups to home but now theyve limited it to 2 groups when you used to be able to add loads of groups and you used to be able to edit them from the home screen as well. not any more

I found out you can put 10 games on the home screen, so then you can see people's lame content, and have to press on the game twice instead of once.

It sucks now big time I used to be able to have all my games on my home as far as my groups went and now it only let's you have 2 of them on the home screen at a time pure rubbish.

One step forward (aesthetics). One step back (user customisation).

I like the first page, that’s an improvement in design. The problem starts when you scroll down. The Recently Added to Game Pass group is the big annoyance. Always having scroll past it to get to my pinned Quick Resume group is bothersome. I’d be fine with it if only I could move my pins above it!

Terrible, just terrible

I have my games carefully organised into 10 groups. The home screen is now useless beyond the recent row at the top, and so I’m having to get into the habit of navigating to groups within my games and apps now. The customisable home screen was the best thing about Xbox compared to the other platforms, but not any more 🤮

I still haven't gotten the update and tried joining the insider yesterday...still nothing

@itsgood2slide the Switch > goto the end of the menu for games > LB for groups > make 1000 folders into any groupings you want.

No ads. It was a better, more elegant UI than the X before and certainly is now. This is worst UI I have ever seen. I can't think of a worse one. PS1 was better.

I can only have two custom groups on my dashboard and I can't order each section of the dashboard? I don't like it, it's less useful and more advertising. Microsoft ought to focus on providing users with a pleasant experience with the dashboard, not just upselling to customers.

@Cashews Switch is slightly better than Xbox now in terms of number of inputs required to get to groups, but I preferred just scrolling down to my groups on the previous Xbox home screen. Xbox also lets me customise the guide, choose the colour scheme (beyond just black or white) and have a wallpaper background.

Can you keep the old one?

I had 7 groups on my dash. Now the limit is 2.

And there's FOURTEEN rows of advertising. FOURTEEN. FOUR AND TEN!

This is absolute TRASH!

@itsgood2slide I never got why Nintendo didn't allow for the same functionality on the Switch that they had on the 3DS. The black or white background is boring. Maybe on the next one.

Still, now I appreciate the cleanliness of the whole page more than the pictures.

Hate the new dashboard, let me pin all my groups back & remove the rows of Ads..

Still an unreal number of ads. The consoles are expensive and game pass isn't cheap either. There's no justification for the number of ads. Make an ad-free dash a perk of GPU.

it might be the single worst thing micosoft has done its terrible. I cant get to the games I want i dont need a bunch of hot garbage forced down my throat.