Thanks to recent reports and leaks, we know that a redesign of the Xbox store is on the horizon, which makes sense, considering that the Xbox Series X will be releasing mere months from now. Leaks say that the redesigned store will be common across both, the Xbox One and the upcoming Series X- and allegedly, the same will be true for the Xbox dashboard as well.
Over on Twitter, Tom Warren of The Verge reports that the Xbox Series X will have the same dashboard as the Xbox One. The dashboard will be receiving an update soon, which will make it ready for the next-gen console, and though there will be some new features specific to the Series X to leverage the console’s new features – as well as improvements to its speed and performance – the UI will largely be the same for both consoles.
This doesn’t come from official channels, so take this as a rumour for now, but this approach does make a lot of sense in context of how Microsoft have been approaching next-gen. Given their generation-agnostic strategy and the fact that they consider the Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and other platforms – such as PC and xCloud – it makes sense that they’ll want to have uniformity with the user interface across all of their devices.