Xbox Dashboard Evolution 2001-2023 (Xbox Original, Xbox 360, One, Series X)

[@Exponaut_R-01]

The early 360 dashboard... What a blast from the past.

[@PinkiePie762]

I still have Xbox 360 with 2005 dashboard I’m pretty lucky I bought it from thrift shop

[@bob-g2h]

Best dashboard the 360 had was the og. Xbox one and onward sucks. However the built in og xbox back ground was dope on the series x however it needs an updat to make the dashboard like the og it would be far more streamlined and looks better. Its sada because even the ps3 has a better ui than ps4, xbox one and series line of consoles. Hell the switch has the best ui of last gen and current gen works the best most efficient and oh shit its the same dashboard that was on a ds

[@sleepforever8378]

​@NynnaOnYTon a ds lol

[@sleepforever8378]

​@@bob-g2hds lol

[@doogustrog]

@@bob-g2hdebatable, I’m running an RGH3 slim and NXE is still my favorite. NXE was the last good dashboard

[@unfathomable3434]

I would kill for a more creative dashboard like the original Xbox

[@sethnewton870]

I feel like media as a whole has moved to much more sterile, minimalistic designs instead of experimenting with really unique UI like in the early 2000s. It makes me sad, but I'm sure UI is viewed as a minute detail to most developers/designers. If anything, the new basic designs are effective and functional

[@unfathomable3434]

@@sethnewton870 I grew up with the streamlined sort of 360 but when I got my hands on an original xbox a few years ago to play the original Halo (before 343 fixed the porting problems) I was blown away by its UI and how it made navigating to play a game fun

[@geminitrash1]

For the Xbox 20th anniversary lots of fans remade the Xbox dash as a wallpaper that lined up with the Xbox One Series X/S! I edit one of 'em to be Pink and Cyan and used that! If only we could pick a sound track that'd loop on the dashboard though. Like how myspace that let us pick songs for our page

[@GrabTheSwitchMike]

@@sethnewton870 Nothing has any personality anymore. It's all soulless and corporate. Personal favorite from my childhood was the gamecube start-up screen/jingle. It was charmingly quirky, and always made me smile before my game started up. It was truly part of the experience, just as much as the games were.

[@sethnewton870]

@@GrabTheSwitchMike that generation as a whole is so iconic. Ps2, xbox, and GameCube all had incredibly iconic start up sounds and menus.

[@charlesmaclellan8124]

Halo 2... Those were the days. For me, they took place when I was in the 9th grade. I'll never forget my first game of Halo 2. After picking up the game the day it came out after school, 6 friends and I connected two Xboxs together, two different TVs, in rooms right beside each other. I'll never forget how shocked I was to see a player controlled Wraith coming at me on Waterworks, and being able to play as an Elite for the first time.

[@AFatOcelot]

Ah. I share the same nostalgia and memories :)

[@XxFarrinxXv2]

It's amazing how similar my first experience of halo 2 is to yours haha

[@wylie1474]

I don’t care

[@charlesmaclellan8124]

@@wylie1474 Yes you do.

[@acjr1230]

@@wylie1474 u cared to reply tho

[@BadBoy-sk2id]

Absolutely loved the blades. Miss them a lot

[@geminitrash1]

I've been asking for Xbox to implement an option to choose your preferred 360 dash, but I keep getting replies noting that the 360 isn't supported anymore, but I still get updates so it's a little annoying I won't lie. I guess I'll just have to enjoy blades on an offline console

[@BadBoy-sk2id]

@@geminitrash1 in a world where so much entertainment is driven by nostalgia (remastered games, rehashes of Disney movies etc.) you would have thought making blades an option the current gen Xbox would be smart move.

[@geminitrash1]

@@BadBoy-sk2id especially given that some specifically ask for it. I recognize money is always a factor, but I'd bet fans would pull funds for a project like this

[@XxFarrinxXv2]

Could you imagine a current Xbox blades skin? That would be so sick. I'd probably play Xbox again just for that.

[@XepptizZ]

Jup, really love the blades. It was quick and snappy to get where you wanted to be.

[@thelegendaryprog]

I wish they would give us dashboard customization that would allow us to use the UI from our favorite console.

[@juanpagan7944]

Fax same for start up

[@casualcadaver]

Is it just me or does the original Xbox dashboard from 2001 look the most futuristic? It looks like it came from the year 3001.

[@pandaxgx5901]

Yeah

[@eliteman5397]

No it doesn't. You can easily tell that it's from 2001 and it's trying to look "futuristic". I love how we imagined how the world would look 20 years later by making these type of dashboards and yet it looks so outdated and old today lmao.

[@ronnieradon]

@Brian Boulter they could make it look like that while adapting the aesthetic, come on.

[@ronnieradon]

@Brian Boulter how can the aesthetic be "dated"? whether it's good or not is up to personal taste. it can't "look dated".

[@BlipBlopFlipFlop]

@TheSovietOnion I wouldn't be as nostalgically blind as you, and use a less intiuitive, and slow to use UI. Why does the UI need to be flashy, also what defines a exciting UI?

[@KingHVLP1234]

I miss marble blast ultra man, that game was amazingly simplistic and competitive. I wish more games had that feel.

[@charlesmaclellan8124]

Oooooooh you just unlocked a core memory for me. That's some early high school shit right there.

[@dennismakarov93]

Me too. I only have the demo for it on my 360, wish I could get the full version. Same for the 1989 ninja turtles arcade game

[@dylan.gendreau]

You should check out Marble It Up! It's from the same development team of Marble Blast Gold and Marble Blast Ultra. It's honestly just as good! Multiplayer is only available on iPhones currently, but they've confirmed it will be coming to all other platforms in the future.

[@KingHVLP1234]

@@dylan.gendreau this was the comment I was looking for! Thanks!

[@ragewithnova]

That game was amazing

[@RogerWazup007]

It would've been neat if they let you choose between blades, NXE, or the metro dashboard on the 360.

[@santabakure6264]

Nobody’s gonna choose metro😂 Blades and NXE for the win!

[@AbstractS04]

I would choose NXE

[@YoungMrBlue]

Or Kinect Hopefully they do that when the online functionalities shut down on 360

[@RogerWazup007]

I doubt it, but it would be a neat final update.

[@santinosalamanca4378]

​@@santabakure6264 (not that I have anything against the other two, although blades is kind of boring. nxe is cool though)

[@kevinlee6003]

I do miss the simplicity of the Xbox 360 blades dashboard... but I love the current 2022 dashboard. It's simple and packed at the same time.

[@zekenacho]

Honestly I love the 2022 version

[@xboxx2783]

Same

[@mitchjames9350]

The original 360 dashboard was the best.

[@_-ghostfps-_8651]

Finally someone said it It looks clean while also having a lot of options easy to access

[@chaoticmonk118]

I think I just missed out on the Blades dashboard, pretty much. I got an Xbox 360 and Live Gold on October 9th, 2008, and the NXE update came about a month later. I don't really remember experiencing the Blades dashboard (at least not much), but I guess I must have for the first month. In any case, my memory of Xbox Live really started with the NXE and the Party Chat feature becoming available at the same time, so that's what really defined the 360 Live years for me.

[@EvanBroome27]

Blades dashboard was and always will be my favorite

[@Zenlore6499]

The Xbox Snap feature was great for achievement tracking! I was so sad to lose that when they removed it.

[@joekeys9021]

It was also great to have KZbin play music while you were doing something. Still makes me upset that they got rid of it

[@josephhoalt6824]

Still pissed snap is gone. I loved being able to play and have twitch snapped or live TV which I paid $100 for the Hauppauge usb tuner for it!

[@doodoobutter2501]

You can turn on achievement tracker for games in the settings

[@Zenlore6499]

@@doodoobutter2501 I know, but TrueAchievements has guides, so it was nice to just look to the right and see the next step rather than swap to the app to check each time.

[@Merlaut715]

The PS1 & PS2 startups are nostalgic af, but the OG Xbox's is my favorite one.

[@HugoElcabezas]

gamecube is the best ever

[@YoungMrBlue]

OG 360 peak

[@Vliffy]

Listening to that OG Xbox dash Easter egg brought back so many memories, and the blades dashboard will forever be my favorite.

[@Zenlore6499]

I remember getting the 360 after the NXE update, but that demo disk it came with showed the Blades UI. I was so confused as a kid.

[@uhhhidkwhatthuashouldsay]

Cool to see you guys expand the channel from just halo, you're killing it recently

[@navi2710]

Xbox NXE imo was the best. Loved the way the Avatars were displayed and you could easily browse through everything.

[@TheRevenger117]

I grew up with each generation of Xbox consoles, but the nostalgia I have for the original Xbox and early 360 is unmatched

[@TheKillertoma11]

Holy the nostalgia for the original Xbox. 😭 Simple by today's standards but for the time it was so good. Music playback with the trippy lights and lines was one of my favorite things.

[@lordpestilencetv]

blade gang or die. merely seeing that interface brought me instantly back to that release. i miss the good old days.

[@santinosalamanca4378]

nah id win

[@ki11atj49]

The Xbox 360 nxe it was my favorite dashboard of all time I didn't get to experience blades that much because I had a PS3 but the nxe was way better than the windows type dashboard they updated to at the end of 360

[@Akhenatonio]

The Netflix watch with friends feature on NXE was killer back then. I used it all the time, then one day it was gone. Imagine having that functionality during the pandemic. The other services made available for Netflix watch parties today does not compare.

[@_1oofi]

@usuckcock ok

[@warehawk]

Me and my friends still talk about netflix watch with friends to this day. It was the greatest feature every created, and the fact they just took it from us one day without warning was heartbreaking. It really needs to come back

[@BambiTrout]

I hate how minimalist and inoffensive design has become these days. Every console, device, app menu, game menu, interface, etc. - they all look basically identical, and focus more on trying to sell you shit than trying to actually make your experience fun and engaging, or trying to set a tone for the games you're about to play. It's all so corporate and dull. They add all these live tiles and overlays to try and keep things moving, but they're always just basic monochromatic boxes with videos in them. I want a return to menus made out of rocks and gears, with every submenu having a different background. We don't need fully animated character models lagging out the home screen - we need animated menus with character that can still run on a potato. I don't know why that is seemingly no longer possible.

[@eliteman5397]

I actually kind of like it. I had a PS4 for 7 years which has a very simplistic design in the dashboard and I didn't really like it. Now, Ive bought the Xbox one S and I love the design. I

[@liamburgess5029]

The blades hit like no other

[@Randy1290]

I loved that you could customize the blades on the 360.

[@kbarts316]

The original Xbox dashboard will always be my favorite. It was so unique and creative.

[@tifapanties25]

X=6 maybe it is

[@VileSinner666]

Loved the 2011 metro update. Takes me back to the good old days.

[@itsfunkupop9786]

I just miss the old Xbox one menus, and I hope Microsoft change the actual Xbox menu, I think it's time to change. Postscript, I just bought a second hand Xbox 360 and I'm so excited to use it and Investigate what's on it

[@Joeru510]

When you used to be able to see the gameplay when you exit out to the dashboard. That still seems pretty cool if it were still like that. Also you could snap apps which was sick. Miss those features! Edit: I finished the video and realized he went over those features too lol

[@KatsuyaTheFuuk]

One of the broken original Xbox consoles I got at Goodwill one time still has the original non Xbox Live dashboard. Other than the Xbox Live tab not being there, some of the animations look a little different funny enough. There's a really bright green effect when you open stuff that just isn't there in the Xbox Live version of the dashboard. Seems to boot into the dashboard significantly faster too

[@TheSUPERWIND2023]

The current dashboard for the Series S/X is actually quite nice, I just hope they add more fluent design materials to it like Acrylic glass or Mica.

[@Qwepzy]

The very 1st 360 vanilla menu was the best IMO, Some people still have xbox consoles never connected to the internet with it

[@Sc0rch_Burns]

Whenever I accidentally saw the original Xbox opening and main menu, I would hide, because it scared the crap out of me.

[@VossWaterKim]

Imagine they give us the option to choose any dashboard from any generation. That would be an amazing feature.

[@AxciemG]

the design after the blades was the best, everything looked so nice

[@KevinIsNice6984]

9:44 when you can watch morbius on your xbox 360 lol

[@Pinkmusak]

The metro 360 is my favorite cause I grew up with that one.

[@OfficialFedHater]

I was so used to the blades dashboard that I was still trying to quickly get to my party and friends in the newer dashboards lol. Blades for life.

[@jamescooke729]

I really want Microsoft to make a new UI for the series consoles. It is always fun to get a new console and have to learn the UI.

[@kedricmanson9873]

They are currently working on a new UI which will release in 2023

[@JackStavris]

Best versions of the Dashboard were the blades, the first version of the NXE (before the Kinect update) and the Xbox One Windows 10 dashboard, which was actually called NXOE (New Xbox One Expirence). I think the blades looked the coolest, the Xbox 360 NXE had the best overall design (especially with the darker colour scheme), and the Xbox One NXOE had the most amount of features as well as a strong community focus. I loved how the NXOE had a dedicated Community tab to see clips and what your friends were doing. They've since removed this in later versions and while you can still access it via it's own app, it's not emphasized as much and as a result I never go into it anymore.

[@Vaffle_1231]

The 2008 dashboard brings back lots of memories especially with the Xbox Live Arcade

[@KyrieKirigiri]

Xbox seems to have a habit of gradually making the dashboards worse and worse after initially improving them. NXE was an improvement over Blades (although both are great) but then they redesigned it with the shitty Metro design. The 2015 Xbox One Dash was great and a big improvement over the 2013 one but they made it worse and worse. The 2017 one was still pretty good but the 2020 one is just awful. It is responsive but that is the only upside, the overall design is so generic and boring, plus they introduced new avatars while breaking the old ones but the new ones are completely pointless as they aren't used in games and most people don't set them to display on their profile. Plus they removed app snapping which was incredibly helpful and convenient. I just hope the Series X gets a new dashboard soon - it's one of the reasons why people don't feel like upgrading - the Series X doesn't feel next gen, it feels like a newer model Xbox One.

[@pandaxgx5901]

I agree with the last part

[@kevinlee6003]

Idk. The newest dashboard is simplistic and packed at the same time. It's easy as fuck and organized.... it took a long time to get what we have now.

[@kevinlee6003]

Btw, I remember this update way back in the day, I was not a fan of the NXE update at all. I was just a teenager back then and loved the blades dash that I was used to for years.

[@KyrieKirigiri]

@@kevinlee6003 I prefer the look of blades, it's just that NXE had so many features like the Xbox guide and avatars

[@ChevyBuddy]

Blade Dashboard was where it's at!

[@ayaannazir7308]

I personally love the latest 360 dashboard the most, it’s just so nostalgic and great

[@PanzerMan332]

I grew up with the NXE dashboard right before it got updated, and I gotta say, I really like it. The perfect blend of user friendly without being minimalistic crap. Easy to learn and use, intuitive, great tactile sounds as you click and scroll through the menus, just all of it was perfect. I spent most of my years playing with the metro style dashboard, and it does the job fine, but the NXE has a place in my heart. Maybe it's nostalgia speaking, I just miss when every user interface had personality, was warm and friendly, and didn't look and feel so obviously like such soulless corporate garbage that you can't distinguish one company's platform from another.

[@sebb.jimenez]

I love the nxe ui. I love the look and the sounds.

[@1st_Amendment_Is_My_Right]

New video: Halo: “Which game has the most weapons?” (Counting every gun permission, in weapon holders, on enemies, and allies)

[@DonDeLem]

I remember getting my Xbox 360 in 2009 and spending quite some time on KZbin trying to figure out how to get that OG 360 dashboard, not realizing that it wasn't a setting option and was actually part of an update. My 9 year old self did not understand the concept of "updates" because I played PS2 the most and I was always offline.

[@galacticquasaur2956]

Dang, really? I was the opposite, I LOVED the new 360 dashboard and was glad they got rid of the old one.

[@edmartinez925]

I got the slim model for my birthday back in 2010 and I still have it now.

[@Relaxed008]

Man the 360 just wins everything for me, goat system

[@JackieLanceTenor]

The OG Xbox menu was so cool. I typically use the XBSXS2 emulator on my series X to play old games now, but I do still fire up my old Xbox from time to time and it's always such a great nostalgia moment. I had the 20 GB pro Xbox 360 so I saw all three generations of the menu. I really liked the blades version, but I hated the second one. The 3rd (final) version is probably the best as far as usability and ease of use. Though I do think the first one looked the coolest.

[@xsteath104]

Real OG’s remember when you could host an Xbox live party in Netflix

[@LilRellBabySKRT]

I miss the 360 dash board and even the sound effects. I always liked how you could view your avatar and it show your friends to

[@fabuloso9818]

I won’t lie, seeing the first iteration of the Xbox 360s dashboard brought back a lot of memories that were pleasant, but the NXE dashboard made me burst into tears. I’d completely forgotten about that design and I wasn’t prepared for the slew of bad memories associated holy shit.

[@oldiemcfee]

It wild looking back that I experience every version of the 360 dashboard. I remember getting excited about making my avatar when I got the update.

[@ABlueElitefromHaloCE]

The Xbox 360 blades just hit different. Slow as a snail, but man the nostalgia

[@YoungMrBlue]

I love how the Kinect dashboard was completely left out of the video I seem to be the only one that remembers it

[@chucklove6085]

The NXE went thru a lot of changes. If you go thru and delete updates its wild to see how many changes and colors schemes they went thru.

[@Wilskki]

My favorite is the NXE interface honestly. Most nostalgic for me as well to be fair lol.

[@godnyx117]

We're evolving... BACKWARDS!

[@whywarthog]

Now this brings back some memories

[@AndresRodriguez-tu5tk]

R.I.P. Xbox 360 2005-2016

[@vagrantender]

I'll be honest, snap ALWAYS worked for me and it's still to this day my most requested feature to come back. I just loved having a KZbin video up while playing a game. And yes I do have ADHD and this system helped me immensely growing up.

[@keepwalkingVTEC]

The startscreen on the first xbox looks litterly like a game menu 👌🏽

[@DarrenHoussein]

The original Xbox 360 'blades' dashboard used to give me the most nostalgia but now its the OG Xbox One dashboard

[@1man2raw]

Dat og 360 dashboard brings back so much nostalgia

[@alexisfy]

They paved the way to a lot of innovations that now would be cool, but then it was just odd...

[@slappytheclown4]

so much nostalgia for the 360 blades. I remember the update when they switched from the blades to the NXE layout. Was in school and my friends and I had been talking about the update at school all day. Honestly had a lot of fun making our own avatar and playing A Kingdom for Keflings. We liked the update at the time but looking back I definitely enjoy the simplicity of the blades a lot more.

[@shadow.dragon.decoded.2579]

you forgot the kinect dashbord.

[@krisvaras7801]

i grew up with Nintendo & ps3 but holy damn that first 360 dashboard just screams 2000s and i love it

[@prinxepjoter4782]

you forgot about kinect dashboard for 360 (or nxe 2) it was a mix between nxe and metro

[@Magic_dawn]

Looking at the 2001 and 2005 dashboards feel like a dream from the past that left us too quickly. Its disheartening that we won't get to live that time ever again. We really don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

[@BLOODY__FATALITY]

You missed most of the Xbox One updates. They had TONS of them. Lol

[@Challffz]

When I was a kid I used to think the classic xbox menu is what the inside virtual world of the xbox actually looked like haha

[@carbo0n6381]

6:35 name of music?

[@relphrocky]

I absolutely hate the series ui it’s a huge step down, I wish they’d give an option for the original 360 blades design which is hands down the best ui just tweak it slightly

[@Michaelsithlord]

This video seems familiar 🤔

[@ThemeParksAndAttractions]

NICE video rocket sloth

[@ltru_off]

Second Xbox 360 dashboard is the goat. Gosh that was the best i swear

[@kevinlee6003]

I think almost all of us hated the Xbox One 2013 dashboard... but we all miss snap. I used to snap youtube and listen to music while playing my games. Loved it

[@AvZTeamCOD]

Well you can use Spotify while playing your favorite games !!

[@edmartinez925]

I love the blade dashboard for the Xbox 360.

[@starksvensk]

I know you guys are gonna kill me for being literally a Fetus, but man, that OG Xbox one dashboard really drop kicked me in the nostalgia bone

[@TheFailLord72]

2:53 greatest shooter simulation ever created. Just hadda note incase anyone forgot.

[@MCSWAG]

It felt like I was being haunted by my Xbox as a child, I had it on late at night and I hear 1:55 I didn't know what to think🤣🤣

[@MisterDrewski]

The second version of the Xbox One Dashboard was soooooo clean (I grew up with a Wii so I didn’t have a 360)

[@loafcat9944]

I grew up playing on 360, even if i didn't play on a og, im still in the XBOX family, and that will NEVER change

[@DaeXbx]

Man I loved the original, the og hit different

[@ghostcat8244]

I remember getting Xbox 360 mid cycle when the avatar was news had such great memories.

[@LB.1998]

I remember updating to nxe and being absolutely raging about losing the blade type system, took me a while to get used to 😂

[@Mercenary1996]

Yet again, technically it wasn't the first time on Xbox 360 where they had party chat. They also had party chat back on the original Xbox back in 2001 but it was no multi-chat. So you can't really play any games and chat at the same time unless you're in game chat which they did have back then

[@TheRootbeerDude01]

The smartglass/ xbox app came in clutch when i was younger

[@italodirenzo5876]

The OG Xbox dashboard design and aesthetics are peak early 2000s

[@MonsterXMan21]

anyone know EXACTLY when the metric dashboard came out, like what date?

[@superpete1988]

I remember being mad at the NXE update. I had a halo comic theme for the blades, each blade had a different picture. When the NXE update went live, it gave me 1 static background instead

[@fromaguez]

13:01 i remember this ui when i first got my one s (7 years already damn), i still use it to this day

[@theEWDSDS]

17:17 ah yes, "spiller score" Whatever his name was: "Oh come on! I spilled my drink!" XBOX: "+1 point"

[@GFPtheone]

i wish you could use a xbox one with a old dash like a xbox360 and not just make you update or force you to shut the console off

[@johnbjornstad3090]

Gen 2 Xbox 360 dash was awesome at the time. Good times.

[@J_C_CH]

I remember the beacons. I can't not remember them, because every time I opened a game I was given a reminder that some obscure player at the bottom of my friends list wanted people to play that game with them 😂

[@stairwaytoholiday]

I forgot your avatar was used in Castleminer Z, goddamn what a fun game

[@AvZTeamCOD]

Do avatars still even exist ?? Great video !!!

[@dcd8108]

For me the Xbox one’s 2nd and 3rd dash board are so nostalgic for me

[@whitecheddar1972]

Snap feature was the best I wish they would bring it back! I used to love watching tv and playing games at the same time