Microsoft has been planning to bring Xbox Live support to mobile devices for some time now, and while job listings have, until now, been the primary indication of this, some harder evidence has been brought to light.
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.
I've contacted Microsoft to find out more about all of this, so stay tuned.
Source: Kotaku
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mdevlin3107
yeah i payed 300 for a system so that i can pay yearly to be on xbox live so that i can pay for overpriced points so that i can buy games that i can play on my 200 phone. wtf?
Jdawg2k
Microsoft should have learned their lesson long ago about alienating other companies to just use Microsoft products. (i.e. Internet explorer, silverlight). Open source really hurt Microsoft (i.e Firefox).
Microsoft better play nice with the more popular mobile OS or it's an epic fail.
altizar
Microsoft just found the best way to brick an I-phone . . .
Drop_Six
This seems pretty pointless.
austin43
I want Zune HD support...They did say they were integrating Zune with Xbox Live, and they have integrated the Zune Marketplace with the Xbox Dashboard, but not the Xbox Live Marketplace with the Zune HD. Where's the love?
IXIELCHINGONIXI
this sounds pretty awesome, accessing those arcade games from our phones could be awesome, this could even bring more use to the game room when people are at home and i dont have to pay again to play the same games on my phone. some dude made that LIVE app for the iphone, microsoft could easily expand to different OS's...hopefully webOS for me...time will tell
cracker388
pretty amazing.i wonderto how its going be.
KnuxSonic
I would be satisfied with at least an app for phones that would allow me to see my friends list, send/receive messages, etc.
The problem is that Windows Mobile is decidedly NOT a very popular mobile OS for most gamers, so for them to develop exclusively for that platform would probably be suicide for the project. IMO they need to swallow their pride and get it going on as many platforms (iPhone, webOS, Andriod, etc.) as possible and they'll make a lot more money that way, either through paid downloads or ads.
channelcy
if i can start getting acheivement through mobile games, that'l be awesome
Kanaye
I want an app for that. Microsoft-issued. :(
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