Cominciato il roll-out dell'aggiornamento di marzo di Xbox One

Microsoft ci ricorda che in queste ore è cominciata la fase di roll-out del nuovo aggiornamento di sistema di Xbox One, pianificato da tempo, che promette migliorie su tutti i fronti, oltre che ad una maggiore stabilità della console.

Nelle pomeriggio l'update dovrebbe arrivare a tutti gli utenti che si collegheranno al Live con la propria console. Larry Hryb, in arte Major Nelson, ha diffuso il changelog completo del major update:

Improved Multiplayer & Party chat

• Cross title party chat
• Party chat on by default
• Easier multiplayer invites
• Easier multiplayer joining
• Ability to see what the people in your party are doing

Improved Friends List + Profile

• Improved friends list utility & speed of access
• Ability to see people you recently played games with
• See when friends are broadcasting, including live broadcast thumbnails in activity feed
• Get to a friend's profile faster using type-ahead suggestions
• Contextual app menu actions on friends list and activity feed items
• Enabled more multiplayer (join and invite) actions on user profiles
• 54 new contest-winning gamerpics

Twitch TV live streaming support

• Broadcast gameplay on Twitch.TV through Xbox LIVE (When the updated Twitch app ships next week.)
• Voice support for starting and ending broadcast

Bringing out social in home

• See favorite friends currently online
• See friends broadcasting gameplay

Miscellaneous shell improvements

• Improved notification center experiences including "quiet mode"
• View Game Clips while in snap mode
• Protect user settings with passkey

Browser improvements

• Control Bing and Google maps with gesture and controller
• Quick search when highlighting a term on a page
• When searching from Bing search on the console, direct link to Internet Explorer in order to see additional web results.

New Devices - Driver and Firmware updates

• Firmware update to the Xbox One controller to support the Xbox One stereo headset adapter
• Support for 1st and 3rd party headsets
• Driver updates for the Xbox One Media Remote

SmartGlass Improvements

• Push notification to your device for Xbox Live messages
• Quickly see what a friend is doing including presence and recent
• Enhanced viewing of personal and a friend's game progress and clips
• Ability to close snap from SmartGlass

Live TV

• 50Hz fix - users can set the Live TV app to display at 50Hz for full or fill modes
• Volume up/down adjustments - user can tailor the number of volume increments when using "volume up" or "volume down" commands IR blasting of power & volume to TVs/AVRs in all regions
• AVR setup maps to include model number for most sound bars or AVRs when setting up TV

Improved Audio output support

• SPDIF (optical out) now supports 5.1 Dolby Digital - enabling devices such as sound bars with only Optical In to be able to receive 5.1 Dolby Digital from console over optical
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• HDMI output now supports stereo uncompressed, 5.1 uncompressed, 7.1 uncompressed or 5.1 Dolby Digital live or 5.1 DTS