Microsoft, despite being on the verge of rolling out a huge update to the Xbox 360 dashboard, at one point had to scale back roughly 50% of the features they originally wanted to include. Jerry Johnson, the boss of Xbox Live Europe says that there are many things that the company still wishes to add to the system.
Johnson also confirms that the Xbox Live Primetime feature will arrive in Spring of 2009.
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"There's still a lot of stuff we want to do. Half the things we wanted to do [in NXE] we cut out of the service.
"One of the nice things we did was this architectural change to make things more published and driven from the service. All of a sudden we opened up the platform to say 'I don't have to wait until once or twice a year to release something onto the dashboard'.
"There's a Photo Party app that will be part of the platform. The way it will be distributed is all of a sudden you'll see a slot on the dashboard and if you don't have it you click on it and it's going to download from the service onto your application part of the dashboard. Those are the type of things we're going to start doing."
"One of the nice things we did was this architectural change to make things more published and driven from the service. All of a sudden we opened up the platform to say 'I don't have to wait until once or twice a year to release something onto the dashboard'.
"There's a Photo Party app that will be part of the platform. The way it will be distributed is all of a sudden you'll see a slot on the dashboard and if you don't have it you click on it and it's going to download from the service onto your application part of the dashboard. Those are the type of things we're going to start doing."
Johnson also confirms that the Xbox Live Primetime feature will arrive in Spring of 2009.
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