Update News
Xbox One Update in March
(Feb. 25, in
the year of our Lord 2014) — Family Friendly Gaming,
the industry leader in covering the family friendly video games
is sharing a message from Microsoft Game Studios:
"Since we first launched Xbox One, we have been thrilled to see
our fans spending millions of hours on Xbox Live. Your
enthusiasm reinforces our commitment to making Xbox One and Xbox
Live the best place for gamers and entertainment fans.
This week marks a big week for Xbox One as we will start to roll
out our first product update for Xbox One. As previously shared,
this update offers many new improvements – including lots of
behind-the-scenes updates for developers building apps and games
for Xbox One, several new features we believe Xbox fans will
love, stability and product updates to improve the customer
experience, and continuous improvements to the quality of Kinect
voice so commands become more fluid and responsive over time.
This is step one on our journey and commitment to deliver
continuous innovation to Xbox One customers. Xbox One is a
platform designed to offer the best games and entertainment
experience and we are committed to delivering more and more
features to our customers.
While we’re thrilled to launch the February update this week,
we’re already looking ahead to March. We’ve prided ourselves on
having the best multiplayer service for Xbox 360 and we’ve
listened to your feedback about the features you want to see on
Xbox One and Xbox Live. We’ve heard your feedback and the team
has been working overtime to deliver updates that will
significantly improve the multiplayer and party experience on
Xbox One.
Here are more details on what’s coming for parties and
multiplayer in March:
Get to your friends list faster. The friends list will be front
and center on the homepage of the Friends app. Click the Social
tile on Home, or say “Xbox, go to Friends” to see who’s online
and what they’re up to. From there you can quickly send messages
and get into a party.
Party chat will be turned on by default. When you party up, chat
audio will be turned on by default.
Chat with friends playing different games. Party chat will be
separated from people playing your game, so you can chat with
your friends who are online or you can chat with everyone
playing the game.
We’re adding an “Invite friends to game” option to your
multiplayer titles moving forward. Similar to Xbox 360 titles,
this will appear inside a games’ menu and offer a simple and
quicker way to set up your multiplayer battles. Selecting
“Invite friends” will let you invite friends to your game and
party.
We’re adding “Recent Players.” This is a simple list that shows
you Xbox Live members you’ve recently played with, making it
easier to stay in touch with people, or add new friends after
your multiplayer battles.
Our March Xbox One system update will start rolling out in early
March. We’re excited to get these multiplayer and party
improvements out in time for the March 11 launch of “{edited out
anti-family game},” the highly anticipated team-based online
multiplayer game.
The March update includes many more great features. The
improvements to multiplayer and parties are just a few of the
features that will be included, and we’ll continue to share more
details in the days and weeks ahead, including in-depth videos
so you’re all ready to take advantage of the new features in
March. We’re lucky to have a passionate community that shares
feedback. Thanks for helping us make Xbox One even better.
By Marc Whitten, Chief Product Officer"