Archive: november 20, 2008
Microsoft "Actively Working" To Fix NXE Hiccups [New Xbox Experience]
![Microsoft "Actively Working" To Fix NXE Hiccups [New Xbox Experience]](/images/news/41928_l.jpg)
Considering the scale of the operation, the roll-out of the New Xbox Experience went pretty damn well. Didn't, however, go perfectly. There were a few glitches here and there. Netflix took a while to get going (though that problem was likely to have been on Netflix's end of things), but more pressingly, the XBL Marketplace has been patchy ever since launch. For a lot of people, either you can access it and it's really, really slow, or you can't access it at all. If it's any comfort, Microsoft know it's broken, Larry Hryb writing on his blog:
As you can imagine, it's been an incredible day so far...
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