Watch This: Xbox One March Sneak Peek

Larry Hyrb (@MajorNelson) speaks with Richard Irving, one of the Xbox engineers that are behind the March update coming to Xbox Live via Xbox One, to reveal some of the changes coming to the platform via Party and Friends features.  From what is shown in the video, a noticeably tighter party system is in store that sets party chat to “on” by default, so you won’t have to snap the party and turn on chat when you join a new party (and all rejoiced).  What’s also interesting is the social connect with the friends list and the ability to send a single message, party invite, or game invite without having to run both a game and party invite, that way you can just chill on your game or app of choice and talk to your friends without getting prompts to launch a new game.  Listen to Richard Irving explain and demo some of the upcoming changes, which should be fully revealed just before launch in early March.  We can’t wait!