The team over at Xbox is hard at work creating the best possible user experience for players and fans around the world. And in that vein, the May 2022 Xbox console update promises to enhance the user experience further.
Xbox releases a monthly console update, normally within the first ten days of the month, packed with little upgrades and tweaks to things like user interface, button remapping options, live streaming settings, etc. Players usually have a lot of small requests and complaints about these user experience-related things, and Xbox tries to update the system software each month to keep up.
So, in the month of May, Xbox is promising two major updates, one for the Xbox mobile app and one for the console itself. The former will allow users to create, share, and view stories with the Xbox app on Android and iOS, which is a "stories" system similar to social networking apps like Snapchat and Instagram. The latter is Quality of Service (QoS) tagging -- "a new service for Xbox consoles and sets priority tags on latency-sensitive outbound networking traffic such as party chat, console streaming, and multiplayer (in supported games)."
On the home screen of the Xbox app, players can select the Stories channel and click the "+" to add screenshots, clips, or achievements to share with their friends, and there is even a function to add captions. Also, an activity feed shows posts from the last 72 hours, allowing players to stay connected and share gameplay and achievements with friends for days. As for the QoS tagging, players can enjoy a gaming experience that is protected from connection issues during high-traffic times on supported networks.
Xbox strives to create the most positive gaming experience possible for users and this extends to secondary and tertiary modalities, like mobile applications and network latency. In this way, it seems that user complaints and requests are being heard, even going so far as to make sure all fans are happy with the aesthetics of their gaming hardware.
It is true that players sit at the edge of their seats when a new console update drops, hoping to see various quality of life updates, different Xbox visual themes, and a plethora of other such things, but there is only so much that can be updated on such a huge scale at any given time. Players can enjoy these updates for the month of May, but they also know that in a few short weeks, another update will be ready to roll out in June.
Source: Xbox