Xbox Achievements Receiving “Fundamental Changes,”

The Xbox live Gamer­score and Playsta­tion Tro­phy sys­tems have been the way to com­pare your gamer resume with friends and foes alike, But as we all know they don’t always reflect a play­ers skill in cer­tain games, it does­n’t take into account hours spent play­ing any one game. Microsoft has plans to change that.

While Speak­ing with Win­dows Cen­tral, Xbox Cor­po­rate Vice Pres­i­dent Mike Ybar­ra con­firmed they are work­ing on some­thing that “some­thing that fun­da­men­tal­ly changes”  its achieve­ment system.

“We are work­ing towards a big­ger, more mean­ing­ful change about some­body’s gam­ing accom­plish­ments in his­to­ry, as a gamer on Xbox,” — Mike Ybar­ra

“Whether it’s some­body who only plays mul­ti­play­er in Halo 5 at a pro­fes­sion­al lev­el, maybe they only have 2,000 Gamer­score, you want to be able to cel­e­brate that per­son. You want peo­ple to be in the know. This per­son does­n’t play a lot of games, but they’re world top ten at Halo 5.” Ybar­ra said.

“We’re going to go big in the area of let­ting peo­ple show off and rep­re­sent their gam­ing his­to­ry and the type of gamer that they are, far more than we do with Gamerscore,”

I think the changes they are mak­ing to the achieve­ment sys­tem are real­ly cool and I would like to see some­thing sim­i­lar come to the Playsta­tion 4 also.

The Xbox One will be see­ing a lot of enhance­ments this year with the Xbox One X com­ing lat­er in the year and the Xbox One dash­board update that brings many changes to the con­sole and home screen by focus­ing on “speed, cus­tomiza­tion, and expres­sion.” also com­ing lat­er this year.