If you're still rocking a classic Xbox 360 gamerpic you might have noticed it's got increasingly smaller whenever a new generation arrives. There's normally a grey background on it as well.
Fortunately, Xbox will soon be updating how these pictures look after Twitter user @noukon earlier this week noted how their Pac-Man Ghost gamerpic kept getting smaller and smaller. Xbox's engineering lead, Eden Marie, made it her personal mission to investigate what was going on, and has now revealed an update is on the way.
Apart from the above user, this should come as welcome news for anyone else who is still using the icons from this particular Xbox generation. The same Xbox employee has also gone into much greater detail about how these changes were implemented in a series of tweets if you do want to learn more. It only took her a few days to fix!
So, there you have it - expect an update for this in the future which will make these classic pics larger and transparent. Is this the update you've been waiting for? Tell us down below.
[source twitter.com]
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Sweet, I'm still rocking my 360 gamerpic of Gum from Jet Set Radio. It's about the size of a postage-stamp!
Yeah, I've been following this situation, great work by her. I already followed her on Twitter, I'd highly recommend any Xbox fan do the same.
I'm glad that they are fixing the 360 Gamerpics, but it will only affect those who are already using one, or if you go back to a 360 console and select one on your profile, as far as I know you can't select a 360 Gamerpic on your Xbox One/Series console.
Shame, that would be a nice feature update, for nostalgia at least.
@Shigurui 🤣 Those 72x72 pixels.
@JetmanUK Hah yeah, it's a tiny picture surrounded by a huge circle but I'll never change it. Hopefully it still looks ok when they blow it up.
Will they change how i have like, five different gamerpics, depending on what i log into?
But you can only use these icons on 360 games and dashboard, in backwards compatibility mode, right? It's a shame that there aren't any Xbox One/Xbox Series Banjo-Kazooie icons... or games.
Noooooooo, I like my tiny monkey 😂
I like to think it makes me look out of touch with modern technology.
Which I may or may not be....
@BlueOcean There is one, not amazing but it's the one I use. It's from a Rare collection
I really hope MS gets its Series X/s stock sorted out soon. I really want one and scalpers can go to Hell.
@PcTV I'll take a look.
Cool. Now if Microsoft could just fix me having two gamertags at once I'll be set.
It's things like this that really make MS stand out these days.
Not only are they updating our favourite old games, now they're updating our old Gamer tags??
It seems small but it's the mindset that makes it so impressive and makes us as Xbox gamers feel appreciated ☺️
Nice!!! Great work, Microsoft is awesome even for small details like this!
@LocalPenguin Absolutely, giving respect to their history and knowing that nostalgia is a powerful thing. I personally love this.
I know it would take a ton of work but it would be cool if they could upscale the achievment graphics for back compat games.
Dangit and I recently changed mine.
@TheIronChimp I had been thinking about this too, but I actually don't think it would be a ton of work, a similar solution to the 360 Gamerpic one discussed here should work.
This was cool to read. Always nice to know Xbox is still keeping legacy support in mind, even if it’s things like this.
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