While we’d heard a bit about the party system being implemented with the New Xbox Experience, I hadn’t realized how deep the feature would be until Dave and I sat down to chat with Xbox’s Aaron Greenberg this morning.
Rather than having to use various game lobbies to track each other down, you and 8 friends can now hop willy nilly into any multiplayer title. That means you can game for hours, across several titles, and never break up your group to switch discs.
More info, after the jump.
For some reason I was under the impression this applied to stuff like Uno and the 1 vs 100-ish games that are coming to NXE this Spring.
According to Greenberg, this new party system will work with any game. Any. Game.
(Don’t be ridiculous, of course it doesn’t apply to single player titles.)
Imagine, packs of Sarcastic Gamers roaming Xbox Live, taking down foes across several titles. Later, they’ll share vacation photos and watch a movie together.
Very cool stuff.
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Hey Doc, if you are reading this, can you ask if this will work with Original Xbox titles as well?
And will we get voice chat and dashboard use with the Original Titles?
I was thinking that parties could possibly still communicate even if theyt aren’y in a game together?
Like if I am playing Halo with one friend, and we can still talk to friends on CoD4
From what I have read, the party system is a group chat system that also allows people to stay together from game to game. If all 8 people are playing SP games, you can still all chat. I think that Major Nelson used an example like 3 people playing CoD4 and another 2 playing Halo being able to chat, while waiting for other friends to get online for some group Gears.