Call me paranoid, call me what ever you like but if you are going to download software to my system please offer me the chance to review the ingredients before I click OK. Ultimately, it would be nice to know what I am about to approve don’t you think?
I wonder if I am the only one that feels this way. Major application and OS’s do a great job at offering this review before a user approves the update but such is not the case in the land of the Xbox 360 game console. Sure you could argue that console gamer is not going to know a DLL from LSD but nonetheless, offering optional information about what the update is going to do for them is good form. In Xbox360 land, you get a screen that looks something like this
and it would be great if the X or Y button gave you information on what was about to change on your system. And while your taking down my feature request wonderful product manager of the xbox360, it would be nice to see the update history of the machine.
Does the information exist? Sure it does but you have to really hunt for it and I’m not sure all the updates have made it to the web. For example, http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2007/11/30/december-2007-system-update.aspx
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/2006/1030-novemberupdate-completelist.htm
From a security stand point, it just spooks me out when I approve an update to my system and have no idea what has downloaded or what has been modified. The number of independent game developers for Xbox360/Xbox-live are taking off and Microsoft has a solid program. Lets just say that things will start to get very interesting.
—tk