Welcome, Wilkommen, Bienvenido...

Welcome to the Xbox Team blog!  Now that Xbox 360 has been out there and is being enjoyed by a ton of people, a couple of us here on the Xbox team at Microsoft thought we'd give the community an inside scoop on what it's like working here.  We'd also like to share tips & tricks for Xbox 360.  Maybe we'll even be able to share some technical info about how the features you're using right now were made.

Some of you are probably wondering how we are related to Major Nelson.  At Microsoft, Larry works on the Xbox Live team, while we work on the Xbox Base Software team.  In the blogosphere, Larry's been doing an awesome job commenting on goings-on in the industry and I hope he continues to do so!  We want this site to let the community be a bit more personal with the people that built Xbox 360.  Hopefully you'll see posts from lots of team members from all over the Xbox organization.

Let us know what you'd like to see on the site.  One consistent question we've been seeing is "how do I get into the games industry?"  Maybe I'll take a stab at answering that in my next post...

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 01, 2006
  what i would like to know is basically how i start a games company, eg bungie. i just want to know how much money i will need, how many people i will need for the job, stuff like that.
  thanks.
• Anonymous
  February 02, 2006
  Welcome back at you folks, nice to see the actual 360 team up on the net. Looking forward to you posts. I have been a keen reader and listener of MajorNelson for a while and find his interview particulary interesting in-site to Xbox 360 and XboxLive.
  
  Couple items for posting:
  - Why are alot of the secrets of the Xbox 360 not so well documented? (eg. 1. The way the controllers charge when console of if PlugNCharge kit plugged in before power off. 2. The reason why my MCE remote kept turning on my Xbox360? Thanks to MAjor blogcast I found the solution)
  
  - Perhaps part of you site is to allow readers to post Xbox360 wish list items. An exmaple is ablity to see who is talking when playing online, thus if annoying then can feedback appropriatley as hard to tell ?
  
  That all for now -- look forward to popping back to blog daily :)
  
  PS: Great job on 360 !!
  
• Anonymous
  February 02, 2006
  hello
  thanks to XeZaR for giving me the info about this site! i'll be coming here to see other peoples questions and my questions answered here how it was/is to work on the xbox 360! i can't wait!
  
  excellent job on the 360!
• Anonymous
  February 02, 2006
  exellent to see another blog like this comming from the xbox team , great to see the amount of work that go's into the community from you multiple departments .
  cough software team you say ? :) , what happend to video streaming through windows connect ? ;)
  
  just one of the many wonderfull questions i hope you guys will adress in the future :)
• Anonymous
  February 03, 2006
  Awesome to have you guys in the bogosphere (is that in the dictionary yet). Any plans to do a podcast?
• Anonymous
  February 03, 2006
  Major Nelson does an excellent podcast that pretty much covers everything. I am not sure what we could do differently that it'd be worth your while to listen to a podcast we make, but if you have any ideas send them this way...
  
• Anonymous
  February 03, 2006
  Glad to see your blog online! I'm a new Xbox MVP for 2006 and have you on my blogroll! I'm forwarding your blog link on to the other moderators and MVPs on Xbox Live. Looking forward to reading your insights and thoughts!
  
  ~ Jonathan (Rainmaker2112)
• Anonymous
  February 04, 2006
  Nice little blog here! Thanks for the welcome.
  I'm an Xbox.com Moderator and an xbox MVP. I'll make sure to pass over here once in a while! :)
  
  Keep up the great job!
• Anonymous
  February 04, 2006
  I'm glad to see this Blog online.
  
  Like Trigger, I'm also an Xbox MVP/Moderator at the Xbox.com Forums and make sure I will check this page often as I will help to spread the word.
  
  Keep up the great work you guys and gals doing.
  
• Anonymous
  February 17, 2006
  nice blog, will be checking this blog out on a regular basis. quick question, i just read an article that direct tv wil be impemented into the 360 dashboard, and the user will be able to download hd content( movies, tv shows, etc) really i have 2 questions, wont we need a bigger HDD? and 2, will there be any cable tv support, for those of us who don't have a sattlite dish, or who doesn'y use direct tv?
• Anonymous
  April 26, 2006
  Yeah... I got a really good idea for a game controller and no one sells anything quite like it ... at least not yet. I thought it would be good for games like Halo and Halo 2, shoot'em ups and even other games. It would allow a person to play games without ever taking their thumb off of the toggle stick. Most games only use a total of 4 fingers to play. The other 6 fingers do nothing more than hold the controller. I got an idea that will utilize those other fingers.
• Anonymous
  April 25, 2007
  http://omfree.com/nba-basketball-videos