NXE

Yay, the New Xbox Experience is here. Well I say ‘Yay’ but in fact it caused me a headache. And a revelation.

If you haven’t been paying attention you may not know that I live in Japan. My Xbox is Japanese and for whatever I did with my Live account it knew this to be the case. I got Japanese Live. Luckily the 360 itself was nice enough to listen to my requests for English and converted all the menus into English for me.

Then came NXE. Shiny it maybe, but all the menu options became locked to Japanese making navigation far harder. My solution, experiment. I created a new account, attached to a new MSN id, and so DoFuss was born. The MSN id was bound to the UK, so suddenly everything was English. Plus I can now look at everything you lucky people in the UK can download.