Trending News|February 11, 2014 02:16 EST
Xbox One Updates Improve Features, Kinect, and Stability
Xbox One will be receiving updates that will help improve some of the console's features.
According to IGN, the system will be getting two updates with the first to arrive this month and the next in March.
On February 11 the Xbox One will ask its users to connect to the Internet to update, and will fix general stability and tighten up Knect's voice commands. Another update will pertain to the controlling of the console's storage space.
IGN reported that controller battery power will also appear on the screen along with the new functionality of a USB keyboard.
The March update has little to no information released on it yet, but is understood to prepare the console for the launch of Titanfall.
Last month Microsoft announced a colossal Xbox One update is scheduled to repair online features that were more difficult to access than on Xbox 360, according to a report on Ign.
Are these two upcoming updates the first wave of the "colossal update?"
Microsoft's Chief Product Officer Marc Whitten told Engadget, there are strategies to combine features like Friends Lists, Parties, Avatars, and Achievements all in one spot, as the decisive reaction has been they are too distant.
"The feedback we've gotten is pretty valid," he said to Engadget. "Some of the social stuff is hidden or harder to use than it was on the Xbox 360. So you're gonna see us come out with an update where, well, we're going to fix those things."
"As a person who's been pretty involved in building Xbox Live for the last decade, I take it pretty seriously when people say it's harder to get into a party, and the defaults aren't right, and I don't like the model," said Whitten to Engadget.
The Chief Product Officer for Microsoft further expressed his thoughts.
"So what I'm trying to do with the team is kind of theme some stuff up. Let's take an update and really go through a big list of what we're hearing from customers, what we know is broken with the architecture, areas that we want to improve or complete. I think that's a theme you'll really see us push on -- that Live experience," said Whitten.
Lastly, Whitten remarked on Xbox One's lost Twitch broadcast proficiencies, suggesting that he expected it would be available on the gaming console prior to this year's E3 in June.
"This is not 100 percent, but my general strategy at E3 is to talk about things that are gonna happen from that E3 to the next E3. So, we are not yet to the next E3," concluded Whitten.