Wed, Nov 19, 2008 | 07:10 GMT
Rumour: NXE to launch at 5am EST
This X3F story claims that New Xbox Experience will launched today at 5.00am EST – that’s 10.00am GMT, or 11.00am CET if you’re on the mainland.
We’re chalking this up as rumour because we’ve asked Microsoft about this twice this week, to be told both times that the specific launch time of the UI update hasn’t been made available internally yet.
That doesn’t mean this isn’t true. In fact, it almost certainly is. We’ll try to get a confirmation of this UK time this morning.
11 comments
#1
mart
19/11/08, 9:10 am
Says on Inside Xbox (or whatever it’s called on the current dash there) that it’s launching at 10am our time.
#2
patlike
19/11/08, 9:13 am
Radical. Ta.
#3
Blerk
19/11/08, 9:29 am
Probably a good idea to launch it when most people are at work. Or in bed. Or both, if you’re a prostitute.
#4
patlike
19/11/08, 9:32 am
Or a professional heroin addict.
Ive got it into my head that there’s going to be a groaning generator noise and all the lights are going to flicker at 10 o’clock.
#5
Blerk
19/11/08, 9:35 am
Don’t forget, the internet will die. It’s the ‘biggest event in the history of the internet’, after all. Print some porn now, while you’ve got the chance.
#6
Spiral
19/11/08, 9:44 am
Dammit, I can’t get access to the colour printer. We’re doooommmed.
#7
Psychotext
19/11/08, 9:54 am
* splat *
#8
Johnny Cullen
19/11/08, 9:58 am
Ladies and Gentlemen, we’re fucked.
Let the show begin in 45 minutes.
#9
GordonR
19/11/08, 10:13 am
My 360 went RRoD two weeks ago, and is inauspiciously due back from the Big Hamburg Repair Barn today. (This one being a replacement for the disc-mangling bastard they fobbed me off with two months earlier, in a previous hilarious RRoD episode.)
I’m half-expecting it to just give up the ghost as soon as I get it, plug it in and start downloading NXE.
#10
Psychotext
19/11/08, 10:15 am
If that happens GordonR, be sure to raise your clenched fists to the sky and shout “DAMN YOU MICROSOFT, YOU’LL PAY FOR CROSSING ME!”
#11
airdom
19/11/08, 4:16 pm
5am Eastern time is exactly the same as when microsoft says they release their content (xbla & whatever) at 2am PST..same thing. so whats the big deal