Xbox 360 fan finds console with rare dashboard cheap

One Xbox360 A fan who bought two Xbox 360s was surprised to find the NXE Dashboard. When the Xbox 360 disappeared from the Xbox Store recently, nostalgia for that generation of gaming was rekindled. Many gamers who owned an Xbox 360 thought back to the time they spent with the console, which many consider to be the best of its time. From games to features to other content, the Xbox 360 gave gamers many memorable things that are still around today.

One of the most iconic things fans remember is the evolution of the Xbox 360 dashboard. Over the console’s eight-year lifespan, the Xbox 360 home screen has changed a lot. Many fans from different eras prefer one over the other. While some would say the Xbox 360 Blades era was the best for the platform, many consider the NXE dashboard to be their favorite because of how simple it looked.

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Reddit user NoScar3068 was able to buy an Xbox 360 with NXE dashboard for just $7.50. They originally bought two units, a Slim model and one with the red ring of death, for $15 on Facebook Marketplace. When they checked the consoles, they were surprised to find not only that the supposedly defective console worked, but that the Slim model also had the Xbox 360 NXE dashboard. While NoScar3068 believed this to be a rarity, some users refuted this theory, saying there wasn’t really a big market for it. Others joked that the Xbox 360 Blades dashboard was even rarer.

However, other commenters expressed their admiration for the lost home screen style. When the Xbox 360’s NXE Dashboard was introduced in 2008, it was eventually replaced by the Kinect and later the Metro Dashboard. Some fans brought up the discussion that Microsoft should have allowed Xbox 360 users to choose the home screen they preferred for a truly personalized and customizable experience.

As Xbox 360s become increasingly rare and limited edition Xbox 360 consoles become even harder to find, such valuable finds delight nostalgic fans. The fun evolution of Xbox 360 dashboards may have been an interesting experiment over the years. While the current Xbox ecosystem is moving on from an evolution of the Metro dashboard, fans still remember the simpler times when the Blades and the NXE dashboards were present in their systems.

Xbox360

The Xbox 360 was Microsoft’s successor to the original Xbox video game console. The seventh-generation device was designed as a direct competitor to consoles such as Sony’s PS3 and Nintendo’s Wii.

brand

Microsoft

Original release date

22 November 2005