Beginning at present, a brand new Residence expertise is rolling out to all Xbox Collection X|S and Xbox One consoles. This replace is designed from participant suggestions and makes it simpler to find new video games, rediscover video games you already love, join with communities, and create a extra customized expertise.
We’re excited to share extra concerning the journey that led us right here, and what you may anticipate with this new replace.
Your new Xbox Residence
1: Makes it simple to go to your Library, the Microsoft Retailer, Xbox Sport Cross, Search, and Settings on the very high of your Residence by introducing a fast entry menu.
2: Creates more room to your customized background by simplifying the format and placing the video games you lately performed and different content material and apps in the direction of the underside of the display screen.
3: Provides an choice to vary your background to match the sport you might be highlighting within the not too long ago performed checklist.
4: Improves recreation discovery by introducing lists of video games curated and customized for you.
5: Permits you to customise your expertise by pinning your favourite video games, curated teams, and system teams like Fast Resume to Residence.
6: Helps you discover what’s occurring in your group by way of the up to date Mates & Group Updates row.
7: Exhibits you what media apps and content material can be found to you through a Watch & Hear highlight and checklist of leisure apps
The journey to replace Residence
Enhancing the Residence Expertise has been really a Workforce Xbox effort —from engineers to designers to researchers and lots of extra. We began by investing in infrastructure that will permit us to attempt totally different layouts of the web page with totally different content material for various conditions and prospects. We then evaluated many alternative parts of the design course of together with what folks work together with within the expertise, how simple it’s for folks to finish the motion they need to take, and the way glad they’re with the general expertise. As soon as we had a model that was able to share, we began to roll it out to our Xbox Insiders.
After we first confirmed Xbox Insiders what we had been engaged on we heard your suggestions clearly – you needed extra room to point out off customized backgrounds or recreation artwork, faster navigation choices, and extra personalization. During the last 8 months since preliminary launch, we’ve carried out modifications to satisfy these requests and have a brand new Residence that feels recent, places the main focus in your video games and apps, and creates house for lovely backgrounds.
Tips on how to attempt the brand new Residence UI in your Xbox
We’re at the moment rolling the brand new Residence expertise out to a subset of all Xbox consoles. Which means some prospects might want to wait a number of weeks to get their arms on it. Relaxation assured over the following few weeks, it’s coming to a console close to you! For those who’re seeing the brand new Residence in your console and also you need to customise it to your liking, our information has you lined.
Thanks for all of your suggestions, and your endurance as we constructed your new Xbox Residence. We look ahead to listening to what you suppose!
