Xbox Adds Another New Dynamic Background For Series X|S Owners

I find these pointless with the current layout as the tiles cover up most of it.

I'll stick with boring motes unless they let you reduce the amount, size and layout of titles.

@Cyberpsycho i agree they have too much clutter on the home screen. I hope the new home UI page in 2023 reduces some of the clutter and gives us a cleaner look. I mean if they touch up all the pages over 2023 then this UI is perfect and don’t really need much else done to it. I would like to see the settings and achievements page after the Home Screen to get some love.

That’s cool you can’t see it with the new UI. But the hey you can’t navigate the store either with the new update. It all goes together

If you have OLED, it is better to have the high contrast pure black

Good, another background we won’t be able to see thanks to the atrocious dashboard (and the new one is even worse).

It's so pretty!

Now if only they allowed you to see it...

@mousieone What's actually different from the old UI though? It looks the same to me without a side by side.

@NEStalgia the tiles are larger. And you used to be able to customize the Home Screen. Now you get 1 group on there. And the rest of the rows are the old store charts that people didn’t look at like most played free to play. Every so often you have an ad bar that takes up the complete screen. There is literally no way to see your backgrounds and little customization. The old one ways great but this is one giant ad. Like I don’t play COD and it they literally had that plastered on my Home Screen for a week. And I know they know what I played because when I browse the store it shows me options. So why plastered that on my Home Screen?

Now the store moved stuff around and now if you want to see upcoming games Instead being in the games home you have to completely back out and being the Home Screen then scroll all the way to the bottom.

How any of that functional?

@mousieone Gross. I have somehow not noticed any of this, I just look at the first 4 tiles which is always the latest things I've played, and use the search bar to find games in the store (or really in my own list because it's so big), so I guess I never use the interface outside the Guide menu, really The store is a mess, though. It's hard to find what I'm trying to buy either on console or on the app. That's definitely become worse since the X1X era even. Even on the website I can't just get to the product page. I looked for elden and it brought me to a preorder page....

@NEStalgia they are trying to make everything from the guide app and use the Home Screen as a giant ad. That’s really not how most would want.

@mousieone I must be weird. When I first got the X1 I couldn't quite get on with the Win8-like interface. But once I realized the Guide was basically the whole interface I ended up liking it the best of all the console UIs. I just.... Honestly I don't even know why the home screen exists at all, the only thing I use it for is putting Quick Resume games back on the home screen before disconnecting remote play in hopes that it won't crash the QR session but usually still does anyway....

That's probably the problem, they keep trying to find a use for the home screen, and because there really isn't one the only thing they've come up with is using it for ads that you only see when you reboot, anyway.

@NEStalgia well the issues is that you use the system like they want with the guide being your main interface. I think good chunk prefer the Home Screen as it with the other consoles as the main interface.

The guide is fine but extra screens like folders for Nintendo.

@mousieone Yeah, I do keep hearing people trying to use the home screen and thinking "why? That's not how its used!" I'd say habit, but nobody's more prone to habit than me, and I adapted fast when I first got it There's just no use for the home screen at all. Guide is the hovering home screen. The "home" screen is just a bulletin board.

Maybe it's Mac users? I mean Xbox works like Windows. When's the last time you used the desktop for anything but storing cat pictures? The taskbar is omnipresent for a reason, like the Guide.

@NEStalgia um the entire office uses the Home Screen. Many of them don’t even use folders and just save everything to that…. Don’t get me started. That said I use my Home Screen for important icons and that’s it. It’s way faster for getting into programs that have short cuts there.

@NEStalgia also didn’t use a Home Screen with my MAC.

@mousieone I do not understand humanity.

I thought Windows 3.1 ended in 1996?

(Also why use the home screen for anything when you an just pin it to taskbar? And why did you have a mac? )

@NEStalgia I had a Mac because back in the day it has the best photo/video software when I was in college.

@mousieone Ahh, yeah, I remember the days when Photoshop was a "Mac exclusive." I had the early Windows edition, it came on something like 30+ floppy discs. IT was hilarious. Took hours to install!

@NEStalgia Apple IPad still has the best exclusive software.

@mousieone It at least has Sakaguchi RPGs...

I used to buy iPod Touches, and I still have some devices that run on them so I've bought old used iPhones to replace them as the batteries swell and pull the screen off, but that's about as deep into the iOS ecosystem as I ever got. I actually tried, but it, at the time (pre iOS11) was so incompatible with anything PC or network storage based without clunky workarounds I'd moved to Android and never really looked back. I considered an iPad once, but went with a Surface Pro...though I really use it as a laptop more than a tablet.

I don't like game specific dynamic backgrounds, just give me more generics