Ever since I got my second Xbox 360 console and started shuttling my gamer profile between the two on a memory unit, I noticed a peculiar thing that happens to my profile with respect to themes.
The usual scenario when I get a new theme is to first go download it on one console (the "primary", now replaced console where Monica can also use the content), and then go re-download it on the second console. Usually I will also switch to the new theme on the first console after it comes down.
When I first sign in on the second console, the new theme isn't available just yet. However, my gamer profile on the memory unit seems to know what my current theme should be, and since it can't find it, resets it to the default built-in one. Makes sense, right? Well, not completely. The thing is that if you bring up the Guide or if one of those notification blades slides out, you will notice that the Guide is still skinned with the new theme - despite the fact that it is not actually available on the second console.
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Over the last couple of dashboard updates, Microsoft has slowly been refining the New Arrivals section of the Xbox Live Marketplace. Currently it quickly sorts content by type, making it easy to search for just new movies, games, or TV shows, for instance.
However, despite the multiple revisions, this feature still sports an issue that aggravates me to no end whenever I use it. The problem is that just like the Spotlight section that features a variety of old and new content - the same set for all users, the New Arrivals screen is also the same for all gamers. It is a list of what is new on the Marketplace, for everybody.
That means that if I go look at the list in the morning, and then later again in the evening, I keep seeing the same content. It may have been new to me the first time I saw it, but not after that. I wish the dashboard somehow kept track of what I had looked at, and either took those games off the New Arrivals list, or perhaps more sensibly (so that the list doesn't have to be totally recreated for each user), somehow dimmed the games that I had looked into. Sort of like marking your e-mail messages read. If I open up a game in the list to see the new items "inside" it, mark it as viewed, and thus not "new" anymore.
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