Microsoft will soon roll out an update for its latest gaming console, Xbox One, with fixes and improvements on its social features, based on user feedback.
Marc Whitten, Xbox chief product officer, spoke about the upcoming update to Engadget in an interview. Specifically, Microsoft in its next update will work on the console's "Live Experience" about which some users have been complaining about since launch. Some of the social features such as Party Chats, improper default settings and others are reportedly difficult to use on the Xbox One, as compared to the Xbox 360 counterparts, while some features are reportedly hidden away.
"The feedback we've gotten is pretty valid; some of the social stuff is hidden or harder to use than it was on the Xbox 360. So you're gonna see us come out with an update where, well, we're going to fix those things. As a person who's been pretty involved in building Xbox Live for the last decade, I take it pretty seriously when people say it's harder to get into a party, and the defaults aren't right, and I don't like the model."
Whitten added that they will "stuff up" some features from the list of they got from customers. "So what I'm trying to do with the team is kind of theme some stuff up. Let's take an update and really go through a big list of what we're hearing from customers, what we know is broken with the architecture, areas that we want to improve or complete. I think that's a theme you'll really see us push on - that Live experience," Whitten added.
Talking about the updates, Whitten also revealed what the gamers might see first up in the upcoming updates. "Everything from getting more apps out faster, some of the TV stuff -- improving some of that, getting the scale of that internationally where we don't have some of that. So I think you're gonna see that come pretty quickly," he added.
The next big update for Microsoft Xbox One would begin by March's Game Developer Conference.
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