Gadgetory

like console gaming as much as the next guy but on my xbox one of my favorite features spiel the tap that home button and go to my home screen and quickly jump to another app maybe Netflix maybe YouTube when I turned on my xbox the other day I was surprised to find a software update waiting for me and when it was done it said we're changing how the home button works would you like to watch this little video tutorial I said to myself if you need to watch a video tutorial for something it may be kind of complicated it turns out when you press the home button now instead of going home you now go to this guide screen which sort of pops in from the left-hand side of the screen almost like a sidebar and to get back to the traditional home you then have to press the a button and then press the a button again so we've gone from one button press to three to get to that traditional home screen now a lot of the stuff you want is still on that on that guide like sidebar but I find a little harder to quickly jump between the apps I want to jump between I usually got between you know Amazon and Netflix and a few other video apps sometimes games what you also lose once you finally do get back to that home screen is that live preview of the of the currently active app I thought we thought that was kind of good and useful that's missing now they say that frees up some processing power that actually makes a new menu system faster but I realize I just like my one button home press maybe I'm old maybe I'm resistant to change