Post: Xbox Live Officially Heading For Mobile Phones
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01-12-2010, 12:10 AM
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According to a recently uncovered (via Kotaku) internal marketing document, Microsoft has definite plans to deliver its mobile Xbox Live service (or Xbox Live Games as it will be known) to Windows-based phones in the near future. Whether the service will be available on other devices or phones isn’t known, nor is when the service will be made available or what exactly it will end up offering users.
Another unanswered question involves the recently announced Xbox Live Game Room, which lets Xbox Live users play retro titles via an avatar-loving online space. While the full service probably isn’t practical on a mobile-device scale, including emulation support could prove to be a rather compelling feature.
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While the news has been coming for some time now, you always need to break out a confirmation to make everything official. And it's now official: Xbox Live is on its way to mobile phones.
The service will be known as "Xbox LIVE Games" (catchy!), and looks to be available only on phones operating a mobile version of Windows.
This is outlined in the pic above, taken from internal Microsoft marketing material (dated December 2009). And it's got us scratching our heads.
While the wording never mentions "exclusive" or "only", what's troubling is that, well, only Windows phones are listed. No mention of other phones, nor of Microsoft's own Zune handheld music player, either.
If this service - which was teased recently via a job advertisement - does indeed run on Windows phones and Windows phones only, a much-maligned and minority section of the smartphone market, it will have been a colossal waste of everybody's time.
We've reached out to Microsoft for word on some of the finer details, including whether it is indeed restricted to Windows phones, and will update if we hear back.
While the news has been coming for some time now, you always need to break out a confirmation to make everything official. And it's now official: Xbox Live is on its way to mobile phones.
The service will be known as "Xbox LIVE Games" (catchy!), and looks to be available only on phones operating a mobile version of Windows.
This is outlined in the pic above, taken from internal Microsoft marketing material (dated December 2009). And it's got us scratching our heads.
While the wording never mentions "exclusive" or "only", what's troubling is that, well, only Windows phones are listed. No mention of other phones, nor of Microsoft's own Zune handheld music player, either.
If this service - which was teased recently via a job advertisement - does indeed run on Windows phones and Windows phones only, a much-maligned and minority section of the smartphone market, it will have been a colossal waste of everybody's time.
We've reached out to Microsoft for word on some of the finer details, including whether it is indeed restricted to Windows phones, and will update if we hear back.
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02-15-2010, 09:56 PM
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Who’s Jim Erased?
Cheevos On The Go: Xbox Live Heading to Windows Phone 7 Series This Holiday
In what has been a long time coming, Microsoft today finally announced Xbox Live support for their upcoming Windows Phone 7 series this coming holiday season... something that was discussed many moons ago. In laymen's terms... buy a special branded Microsoft Windows Phone 7 series and get achievements on the go.
Microsoft today announced a few features that we can expect from the games hub located on the phone and these include the ability to:
So if you ever wanted to swap gamertags with that hot bit of stuff at the local bar, you'll be able to do that this coming holiday season with ease. You know... because that type of stuff happens all the time...
And you thought achievements couldn't take up that much more of your free time? You thought wrong.
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In what has been a long time coming, Microsoft today finally announced Xbox Live support for their upcoming Windows Phone 7 series this coming holiday season... something that was discussed many moons ago. In laymen's terms... buy a special branded Microsoft Windows Phone 7 series and get achievements on the go.
Microsoft today announced a few features that we can expect from the games hub located on the phone and these include the ability to:
- Collect Achievements and build your Gamerscore
- View Xbox LIVE leaderboards
- See your Xbox LIVE Avatar
- Access Spotlight feeds, including the latest tips and tricks, game news, updates and more
- Add Xbox LIVE friends to your friends list while out on the go
- Turn-based (asynchronous) multiplayer gaming
So if you ever wanted to swap gamertags with that hot bit of stuff at the local bar, you'll be able to do that this coming holiday season with ease. You know... because that type of stuff happens all the time...
And you thought achievements couldn't take up that much more of your free time? You thought wrong.
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