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The blades also resembled the shape of a 360 case. Beautiful design, but I believe it wasn't scalable enough for the new content, therefore got replaced.
by sedatk 4y ago
The blades also resembled the shape of a 360 case. Beautiful design, but I believe it wasn't scalable enough for the new content, therefore got replaced.
- sylens 4y agoYes, before it got replaced entirely they added a fifth blade for "Marketplace" - hard to believe now but that was a major development in 2006 or 2007 when it happened. But when they opened up the floodgates for video streaming services and such, they just couldn't keep adding blades
- z3c0 4y ago> the new content Ah, yes, the advertisements, masked with the veneer of pointless avatars and a nearly-useless Facebook app. My first time having ads funneled natively through a device I had purchased. Now advertisements in the dashboard are the status quo for Xbox and Sony, so I guess they were ahead of the curve there.