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

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

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

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.

Absolutely loved the blades. Miss them a lot

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

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

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.

Blades dashboard was and always will be my favorite

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The blades hit like no other

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

NICE video rocket sloth

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.

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.

Now this brings back some memories

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

This video seems familiar 🤔

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

I remember getting my Xbox 360 in 2009 and spending quite some time on RU-vid 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.

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.

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

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

Dat og 360 dashboard brings back so much nostalgia

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

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

That's a nice video, I only wish there was some footage of Halo 2 interface. I feel like they based a lot of their interface on what they've done on Halo 2 back then, atleast on the multiplayer/friend list aspect. In 2004, Xbox Live and Halo 2 were pretty much the same thing.

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

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

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

I remember when the Xbox app first launched it made MCC lag horribly for me when I had it open so I stuck to the console companion until party chat got phased out. Just glad Xbox app got updated and optimized lol.

Hi . I saw your post regarding about XBOX 360. I have a question. My current dashboard is 2.0.17502.0 , can I directly update it to the latest version 2.0.17559.0 without following the next updates after 2.0.17502.0? I hope you'll notice me. Thank you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love the blade dashboard for the Xbox 360.

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

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

I use Blades as a KODI skin and I love it. Sometimes I think I should learn how to create KODI skins and re-enact the Nxe dashboard since it looks pretty sick. And for some strange reason I have some nostalgia for it despite never having owned an Xbox. I think it's because I started watching RU-vid reviews of games before I bought them at the time, and if the reviewer was playing on Xbox I'd see this dashboard.

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

do u have the image link to da 2022 dashboard from the thumbnail

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

I miss the 360 blade system, so much nostalgia

I remembered the Xbox One Snap feature. I really enjoyed it but only used it for one thing tho. I would hook up the cable box HDMI to my Xbox and snap it on the side to watch the Simpsons when FXX would have their block of episodes. Remember watch the show and playing Destiny at the same time, multitasking. Lol But once they got rid of the feature, I stop having cable so there wasn’t a total loss. Plus now I can watch the Simpsons anytime streaming on Disney + and play Destiny 2 on my pc. Crazy how times have changed.

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

At 6:03 I just noticed a coincidence that Xbox Avatars debuted exactly 2 years after their Nintendo counterparts the Miis.

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

I have 3 NXE dash consoles I've collected about 20 consoles so far I feel like they are going to go up in price eventually

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

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.

I never had problems with snap. The only complaint I remember hearing is that it felt like it would slow it down. But I never had crashes.

You can still sort of get a leftover of Blades if you have an Xbox Live Arcade Compilation Disc and put it in 360. However on One/Series it'll only download whatever included games are backwards compatible

I remember all of these

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

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

I'm still shocked that, when I bought the Master Chief Collection when it finally came to PC, it remembered my username from the original Combat Evolved PC multiplayer...

Does the newer consoles have backwards compatibility where you can play older Xbox games on it?

I miss the snapped apps feature, I used to snap tune in radio n listen to tunes while playing games

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🤣🤣

you forgot the 2010 NXE update for when the S launched. I don't blame you I just remembered it myself.

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

You forgot about the Kinect dashboard right after the NXE

The Original Xbox 360 Dashboard is dope

The OG Xbox has my favorite dash of all time.

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 😂

You can switch your Xbox Avatar to the original style, its in the avatar tab

4:50! Look it’s my car XD

Man I loved the original, the og hit different