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Microsoft brings instant chat to TV screen,through games
Microsoft planned to announce today that it will make its Windows Live
Messenger service available on its Xbox 360 game consoles, bringing instant
messaging from the computer to the television.
The move was meant to help Microsoft stay ahead of Sony, its chief rival in
the electronic games business, in delivering the richest online experience for
game players. It is also an element of Microsofts overall strategy to connect
people across PCs, televisions and mobile devices like cellphones.
More than 200 million people use Windows Live Messenger to chat with
friends, family members and colleagues. Separately, more than six million Xbox
360 owners are connected to the companys Xbox Live online community, an
enhancement that lets people with broadband Internet connections communicate
with one another.
In the second week of May, those two worlds will begin to converge. Xbox
Live members will be able to link their gamertag ,the online identity they use
within the Xbox community, to an existing Windows Live Messenger account.
Players will then be able to chat with their instantmessaging contacts using a
virtual onscreen keyboard or a USB keyboard plugged into the game machine.
Microsoft executives said they hoped to offer voice chat between Xbox and
Live Messenger users later this year.
We feel this is a huge step in driving social networking further into the
family room by allowing Xbox 360 users to IM directly from their couch, said
John Rodman, Microsofts group manager for the Xbox 360, in a telephone
interview last week. Now you dont have to manage two separate groups of friends
online.
Microsoft and Sony are battling to dominate the high end of the console
gaming market. (Nintendo, by contrast, is appealing largely to families and more
budgetconscious players.) In years past, game consoles stood out from one
another mostly by their game offerings. But now it appears that top game
publishers like Electronic Arts will release most of their biggest games for
both the Xbox 360 and Sonys PlayStation 3.
As a result, Microsoft and Sony are attempting to differentiate their game
machines with other features, like film playback capabilities and online
services.
Microsoft has been ahead of Sony in online console gameplaying, but last
month Sony announced that it was developing a new Internet service called
PlayStation Home that could surpass some elements of Xbox Live. The
instantmessaging feature appears to be one part of Microsofts response.
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