xbox video phone... what?!

[AXmichigan]

Xbox to Get Online Video-Phone Upgrade - [Console News]
Submitted by Prognostic on 5/11/2004 8:11:18 AM 3 Comments

Users of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox Live online gaming network can already talk to each other remotely while logged in — but soon they'll be able to see their fellow players' faces and "tickle" each other, too.

The announcement comes at the start of the Electronic Entertainment Expo — known by the nickname E3 — which annually draws thousands of game developers to Los Angeles from around the world to showcase the latest in video game technology.

Other announcements included a new partnership with Electronic Arts Inc., which previously kept its hit sports games off the Xbox Live service, and a nostalgia service that would provide gamers with 1980s arcade titles.

Xbox's video-chat service will be launched this year exclusively in Japan and eventually will make its way to the North American network, Peter Moore, an Xbox marketing executive, said Monday.

"We particularly like the ability to launch in Japan because of the superior infrastructure for broadband. It's a great petri dish, if you will, for what will be the future," Moore said. "You will not only be able to play against your friends, or talk to your friends — now you can actually see your friends."

[JiveTurkey]

Great. Exactly what I've been waiting the last few years for - seeing pasty-white teenage Xbox geeks say how L337 and "uber" they are up close and personal.

That's gotta be worth $9.99 a month!

[AXmichigan]

hehe ooo jivey
i gotta say i missed those remarks

[JiveTurkey]

lol They say that sometimes the truth hurts!

I don't think I'll ever figure out what some of the marketing guys are smoking nowadays. This is another fine example of copying something that a PC does and the PC does it better. Not to mention, videoconferencing on PC sucks ass too.

[AXmichigan]

hehe true
but yea whod really wanna see othet dorks playin
itd only be aight if ur watchin a friend
but i still dont get y ud do that
whatever theyre smokin, gimme a hit off that

[Quall999]

I love how in some games, the kids talk trash to you when they are losing or what not. Winning not as much (actually never), most of the good players are pretty modest, that i've played with. I hope some games make it needed to play the game, that way i can see the 12 years old's calling me and my friends bitches lmao.

[AXmichigan]

hehe
and be like yea
go through puberty

[Quall999]

I say that anyways lol. Seriously though, sometimes I cannot tell if the player is a women women, or if it is a 10 year old child the first time I hear them.

[AXmichigan]

hehe who noes