There may be a lot of reasons the new menu system is better or faster for some use cases. The redesign enables gamers to quickly get to the content they care about most, including My Games and Apps, Home, the Store and recently launched and pinned applications." We took the most popular multitasking experiences gamers were using and built them directly into the Guide on a new start page. ![]() "We redesigned the Guide and Home based on feedback from the community to continue to drive more overall performance. When I asked Microsoft if I was alone in feeling a bit put out by the Home button switchup, the company told me: "I will say that it did take a little to get used to the new UI, but I prefer it now." -pizzatarian It is "home" now essentially." -BrinkofEternity The point of the update is to make "home" accessible anywhere via the sidebar. You no longer have a reason to go "home." So the inconvenience of the extra button pushes are irrelevant. To be fair, the new system has its supporters as well. "Is it just me, or was it so much nicer being able to press the Xbox button once to go home, and twice to open the guide? I hate how you have an extra 2 button presses (Yes, I understand it isn't a ton of work) to get home now." -EmbraceCha0s "What could be faster than turning a one button operation into a three button operation?!?!" -thegreatestajax I checked Reddit's Xbox One board and found other detractors. The processing overhead required for this is one of the reasons Microsoft says the new system may feel zippier than the old one. Also lost in the translation is a very cool Xbox feature which showed a live preview of the main active app on the home screen. You can find most of the same things through the Guide, but it can involve tapping over from the left column of the sidebar to the middle one before scrolling down to find the new, smaller icons for frequently accessed apps. ![]() ![]() This is the sidebar view you get when hitting the Home button on the controller.
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