
Xbox Store wishlisting has been a thing for a while - the feature allows users to compile a list of titles they want to keep track of to potentially purchase in the future. It's a neat feature, especially with how many games fill modern storefronts these days, but it's long suffered from an irritating issue that makes browsing wishlists more awkward than it should be. Well, thankfully, the issue has been fixed.
Prior to this latest change, if you accessed a game's store page via your wishlist and then backed out, your cursor would default right back to the first item on your wishlist. If you had lots of games on there, it could be a nightmare trying to look through it all when checking out store pages.
However, a new tweak means that the console heads back to the game you were checking out rather than the first on your list - making wishlist browsing a lot more intuitive. Here's a clip of the new fix in action:
If you only have a few select titles on your wishlist this whole thing could be seen as a bit of a non-issue, but if you're looking at having hundreds of games on there, it's a massive fix. It basically makes the feature worth using for those who want to keep track of lots of digital Xbox titles!
In other less fortunate news, Xbox has made more changes to the dashboard elsewhere - and some of them haven't gone down quite as well. Read all about one of the more controversial tweaks to the Home screen down below.
Do you put many games on your wishlist? Happy to see this small tweak? Let us know!
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Now they just need to show the price for gamepass games
I thought the most annoying problem was that they keep emailing you that games in your wishlist that you've already bought are on sale.
How about automatically removing an item from the wishlist once it has been purchased?
Be nice if they fix the dashboard....again.
And by dashboard, I mean the continous rows of nothing more than a giant ad for game pass.
Really miss being able to customize the dashboard, the way I want it to be. Put games in the rows and order I want.
What they need to do is whenever there's a sale on, it will only show you all of the games that's on sale from your Wishlist only.
One step forward.
Thirty steps back.
@LX_FENIX Now they just need to show the price for gamepass games"
THIS! The main reason I go into the page of the game that is on my wish list is precisely because they refuse to show the price if its on Game Pass!!!!
Anyone else have the issue where notifications would come through constantly for games on wish list being discounted? Instead of one notification saying "35 games from your wish list have been discounted" I get like 7 notifications over the course of 15-30 minutes saying "5 games from your wish list have been discounted." Kind of annoying.
I noticed that but now it doesn't show me which games are on sale...
I just want the games on sale to show up in the front, or the ability to sort by price.
I'm kidding of course, but given the recent changes I wouldn't be surprised if there was a press release stating
"You've asked and we've listened, Xbox gamers like to be able to customise their dashboard, so we've moved the wishlist to the home screen and added some management features so you can add and remove entries."
A welcome change, but I find price trackers like TrueAchievements to be better. So I usually just have things on the Wishlist that never go on sale and or I'll forget about otherwise.
What would also be really helpful would be if all the games that are currently on sale were front loaded on your list. So instead of sifting through the 100 games that you have wish-listed to find all those currently on sale, they all appear right at the front so that you don't have to look through the entire list...
They still haven't fixed the pre order wishlist item. If you wishlist a game coming out soon, when it launches, xbox doesn't change the wishlist item to the launched product. It stays on the pre order product which is then technically impossible to buy and you won't get alerts for sales on the game, see its price from the list, etc.
A fair detail but doesn't change the dashboard/settings designs let alone other details I've wanted to see happen but don't.
Still any wishlist benefits (or backing out of pages in general on Xbox One/Series consoles I always found awkward anyways even more than going back on a web browser).
@NEStalgia i thought the most annoying thing was spamming ad’s all over the Ui that i can’t delete. I mean if they took all the add’s off the bottom. It’s the best ui in gaming for me. I love everything else about it, other than pages of add’s. Things i wouldn’t buy if i was a billionaire.
@Fishticon I totally agree. This would make it easier for us as users to see what is on sale.
@HonestHick Are you sure you don't have enough Old Spice and Doritos? Stock up today!
Actually the funny thing is the ads I seem to get are mostly all gaming ads or movie ads, either games in the store or GP, 3rd party accessories like headsets and controllers, or some TV/movie stuff like TLoU series. I haven't seen much in the way of weird non-gaming non-Xbox ads.
I'd bet it may have something to do with connecting the ads to your Windows and Bing accounts for people that use that. I don't use online Windows accounts ever, and don't use bing, so they have basically no advertising data on my other than Xbox purchases. I also turn off the whole customized ad thing on everything, so maybe that's part of it.
I mean i suppose a few extra bags of Doritos wouldn’t hurt my feelings. HAHA
Yeah i don’t get any certain Ad’s based on algorithm searches as i use Mac and nothing Bing or windows related. But dang man, all they needed to do was cut back on the Ad’s and all those underneath sections of recommendations. That is just so ugly and has to be a system resource hog. If all that wasn’t there, we could have a clean HDR10 Ui no questions. I do like the Home Screen improvements. It’s fast and the guide button options is still miles ahead of Sony or Nintendo. Just cut out all the filler junk. I know they won’t, and i am sure by now all the negative reviews has made it back to them to see. But they don’t care or they wouldn’t still be in their development cycles. They knew we hated ad’s before this new dashboard update and we got even more. This is the stuff that makes me understand those that aren’t into Xbox. MS does just enough to ruin what would be hand’s down my favorite console with no regret in even saying or defending it. Sure the controller is my all time favorite, sure i am well invested into the ecosystem after 20 years, no i am not leaving Xbox because of the ad’s, but this is the little things that add up to make my Xbox experience less than it should be. Ready for this…….. i just don’t have that relationship with my Apple purchases. You knew i was going to say something like that. but i mean it’s the truth. That don’t mean they are perfect or when i buy them i don’t wish they had something slightly different to them. But MS is again shooting off their toes just cause i suppose they grow back for them to repeat the process over and over. Cool Ranch and Nacho cheese are the only flavors i buy. HAHA
So mega happy they finally fixed this!!
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