The Xbox Series and Xbox One got the new Home interface (they call it an experience, but we think it’s more than that).

Microsoft has begun making the new Xbox Home interface available, which makes it easier to discover new games, find your way back to titles you’ve played in the past; join communities, and generally feel more customized, but we think it’s all been changed by the Redmond-based company to push the users even more towards Xbox Game Pass, as we see their subscription service more prominently.

Here’s Microsoft’s overview: “Your New Xbox Home makes it easy to go to your Library, the Microsoft Store, Xbox Game Pass, Search, and Settings at the top of your Home by introducing a quick access menu. It creates more space for your personalized background by simplifying the layout and putting the recently played games, other content, and apps towards the bottom of the screen. It also adds an option to change your background to match the game you highlight in the recently played list. It improves game discovery by introducing lists of games curated and personalized for you. The new Home allows you to customize your experience by pinning your favorite games, curated groups, and system groups like Quick Resume to Home. It can help you find what’s going on in your community through the updated Friends & Community Updates row and show you what media apps and content are available via a Watch & Listen spotlight and list of entertainment apps.

Improving the Home Experience has been a Team Xbox effort —from engineers to designers to researchers. We started by investing in infrastructure to allow us to try different page layouts with additional content for different situations and customers. We then evaluated many other elements of the design process, including how people interact with the experience, how easy it is for people to complete the action they want to take, and how satisfied they are with the overall experience. Once we had a version ready to share, we started to roll it out to our Xbox Insiders. When we first showed Xbox Insiders what we were working on, we heard your feedback clearly – you wanted more room to show off custom backgrounds or game art, quicker navigation options, and more personalization. Over the last eight months since its initial release, we’ve implemented changes to meet those requests and have a new Home that feels fresh, puts the focus on your games and apps, and creates space for beautiful backgrounds.

We’re rolling out the new Home experience to a subset of all Xbox consoles. This means that some customers will need to wait a few weeks to get their hands on it.” So it’s coming eventually to all users.

Source: Gematsu