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TGS 08: Microsoft May Not Stick to Spring/Fall 360 Updates

The New Xbox Experience (which you can read all about right here) is bringing the most substantial changes to the Xbox 360's dashboard yet seen -- which is a good thing, because it may be the last major update we see for a while. At the Tokyo Game Show earlier this week (via Kotaku), Xbox Live corporate vice president John Schappert said Microsoft may move away from the strict schedule of spring and fall 360 updates that they've traditionally stuck to in the past."I don't know if we are going to tie ourselves to a spring/fall release schedule as much," said Schappert to a gathering of reporters. "I think one of the things that I worked with the team with when I joined -- let's do a big release. Spring and fall sounds like there is a lot of distance between the two but there is an awful lot of... it's pretty hard to make a new dashboard because you have to certify it against every revision of the hardware, and there's a bunch of different specs. It's a pretty time-consuming and challenging thing to do. Which is why we only did it twice a year."But apparently, as Schappert went on to explain, even twice a year may still be too often. "I like staying focused on bigger and more impactful releases, so maybe it will be twice a year, maybe less frequently," he said. "You know, to be determined. I think it's going to be more about: What's the next big launch? What are we bringing? When can we bring it? How can we do it in a big way?"

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