Many Xbox console owners have reported receiving bizarre written messages on their home screen, complete with a confusing font throughout the user interface.

Owners of various Xbox consoles have reported a strange, alarming bug that displays a “What do you want to do?” displays a message and changes the text and UI on their dashboard. This isn’t the first time an Xbox console has suffered from a glaring bug, but luckily this one is harmless.

Xbox Series X and S are the latest consoles from Xbox. Together, they represent Xbox’s ninth-generation gaming console and have sold more than 21 million units as of July this year.

As reported by Pure Xbox, a number of players noticed a bizarre message on their home screen asking them what they wanted to do and giving them the option to turn off their console or controller, or restart their console. All on-screen text is replaced by a strange, accented font known as pseudo-loc, which is usually a placeholder for text that has not yet been translated into the player’s chosen language or region. This bug notably affects Xbox consoles across multiple generations, including the Series X and Xbox One.

Can anybody tell me what’s going on here? Why does it look this way?
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Fortunately, this bug shouldn’t affect anyone’s gameplay or save data. It appears to only be present on the consoles of players who participate in the Xbox Insider Program, which allows them to try out new features and firmware updates before everyone else. The bug is the result of a new update that is not yet ready for release, but is undergoing preliminary testing. Although ultimately harmless, to overcome the text error, Pure Xbox recommends reporting it to Microsoft via the console’s “Report a Problem” feature, although there’s a chance they already know about it.

Everyone makes mistakes, including video game console manufacturers. For any gamer, it’s not too uplifting when your favorite console suffers any kind of error, as these can range from small inconveniences like the one you’re experiencing right now, to the annoyances of deleting save data, to the nightmares of ruining your console, which sometimes can’t be fixed. Fortunately, this bug isn’t a “red ring of death” and it looks like Xbox gamers will be able to enjoy their consoles for quite some time to come, even without cleaning up the font.

Source: GameRant