Xbox Store Wishlists Will Soon Appear On Your Console Home Screen

I think it's a cool idea. But I'm still waiting for my old wishlist that MS erased...

Great, more clutter that can’t be removed from the Home Screen…

Personally I'm into this, as long as it replaces a bit of clutter Microsoft imposes on the dashboard. I'd like to be able to add more than just two lists of games and 10 individual games to my dashboard. The old dashboard allowed more than the current one

I think it's a useful improvement, I usually check my wish list every few days, for which I have to open the store and scroll down the sidebar.

This is why Nintendo and Apple rule the industries they are in SIMPLE CLEAN UI. I don’t want to read a book’s worth of text on a Ui. Adding more to what it already has is just lame. Microsoft Windows same thing clutter. even the PS5 Ui is to much clutter with cards that i don’t even want or use. This is a pass for me, make a clean simple 4K HDR Ui that is quick, fun and easy.

@IOI you beat me to it. I just did a rant on it haha

While they do this can they also remove emailing me every time a "game on my wishlist is on sale" 2 years after I already purchased it?

Nice feature. Of course, the dashboard should be customizable. But in the context of what we're currently stuck with, I like this.

I can't believe this many years into this consoles life, there's still no option to make the dashboard HDR, and our TVs have to have a seizure very time we go in and out of a game.

Personally, I want less stuff rather than more. I really hate that huge store tile that replaced the games and apps tile. Sure, the Microsoft Store is an essential system function on Xbox, but in the context of the tile’s location on the dashboard, we’re basically forced to have a full-width row of ads visible at all times.

Guess it's better than some McDonald's advertisement.

@NEStalgia Think that's cause they want you to go buy the PS5 version as well. Since every Xbox game is getting on there by end of month it seems.

@GuyinPA75 Phil did talk about multiple storefronts. Maybe that's next. Make purchases on PSN Store directly from your Xbox!

@Jenkinss Could be worse. The Win11 is hitting win+G every time you go into an HDR/non-HDR game and need to toggle HDR. Even if you're using controller.....

Let us reorder the wishlist to our own custom order! Steam has this feature and it’s very useful.

Right next to my Taco Bell and KFC ads! Hope my wishlist comes to PS5 too

@AccessibleDaydream agree, I'd love to have my library front and center here. Maybe displaying DLC or in-game currency to games I play most would actually be better than whatever MS is trying to display at the time. It's way too crowded as it stands.

@Kilamanjaro The recent Talking Point article about the Series X/S dynamic backgrounds got me thinking about how it would be so much better to just remove the row of advertisements at the bottom of the screen, leaving just recently played games.

Yes, it’s very similar to the PS5 at that point, but I’m of the opinion that the PS5 Home Screen is not that bad at all, especially with the full-screen key art and the music that certain games have when in their tile creating a splash screen of sorts, in a way that’s only really ever been seen with Nintendo’s software on the Wii and Wii U.

I understand there’s most likely very lucrative advertising deals for Xbox in those spots along the bottom of the dashboard, but as a concession, and with all the talk about an ad-supported Game Pass tier, why not make it a benefit of Ultimate that there will be no ads on the dashboard. It’s an extremely small move, but seeing as Ultimate is the same price as ad-free Max (formerly HBO Max), it’s not an unreasonable expectation.

@AccessibleDaydream I totally agree, I'd prefer 0 ads since we pay for GPU. I'd actually like no ads regardless of tier. Nintendo Switch just has games and the News icon pings when they want to show you something & you can subscribe to specific channels you're interested in. If they show ads at all on Xbox I wish they would be more relevant or again, not so in your face in your dashboard, maybe not there or buried in a notification to the MS Store.

@Kilamanjaro Since you mentioned the Switch, remember the backlash when they added the NSO icon to the HOME Menu? For all Nintendo’s faults, their restraint in embracing modern technology has proven beneficial in more ways than one.

The wishlist system needs sorting. When you go to deals and then to see what games on your wishlist have deals, it doesn't show all the deals for games on your wishlist. So I end having to look through the whole wishlist to see whats on sale.

Also I wished there was an option if say I wishlisted a game. E.g Xbox Racer, It would tell if there was a deal on any of the version e.g xbox racer, xbox racer gold and xbox racer special edition. Having wishlist each edition is frustrating.

P.s I made up Xbox Racer

Stopped using the Wishlist ever since I found out about price trackers like DekuDeals or TrueAchievements. Way more convenient to just check an email when things reach a certain price than scroll through the Wishlist every sale to see the same prices you've seen for years.

@IOI Agreed.

One of the reason so many people loved blades, myself included, is how compartmentalized everything was.

Store related things were only only seen on the store page.

All social things were on their own page, etc.

I have this atm it shows tiles for games dlc etc but some i already have paid for so i am still having to do removal of myself from wish list this must be looked at for it to have any merit imo.

They need to show what friends have wish list a game or pre ordered same way they show who played a game in the store . Would be cool to know I’m not the only guy buying it