Microsoft CEO reportedly visits Hollywood seeking Xbox One TV deals
According to Deadline, Ballmer was accompanied on his Hollywood visit by Nancy Tellem, president of entertainment and digital media at Microsoft.
Tellem, who also oversees live event programming for Xbox Live and heads up the recently established Xbox Entertainment Studios, is said to have introduced Ballmer to key Hollywood TV execs including her former boss, CBS chief Les Moonves, Sony TV boss Steve Mosko, and WME co-CEOS Ari Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell.
Ballmer reportedly delivered an intimate preview of Xbox One's capabilities ahead of Microsot's E3 conference on June 10, touting what the system could achieve in terms of offering sports, music, reality and scripted programming, and promising execs that Microsoft itself "doesn't want to be a cable channel".
Xbox One content deals have already been signed with US partners including ESPN and the NFL, while Microsoft said last month that Steven Spielberg is to executive produce a new live-action Halo TV show.
Meanwhile, Alan Wake studio Remedy's new game, Quantum Break, is being designed to "blur the line between gaming and TV". According to Microsoft, how you play the game will impact an accompanying TV show, which will inform how you play the game.
After last month's Xbox One reveal event was largely used to show off the hardware and its wider entertainment capabilities, Xbox executives have said Microsoft's E3 conference will be "all about the games".
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slapshot101Posted:
I am sure the new xbox is going to offer way more chances then the current xbox and many companies want to get in on the action.
Snowfl4k3zPosted:
wow I can just turn off the xbox and do the xame thing, they just want you to use the xbox.
GoldPeakTeaPosted:
WavelengthTrollestia With the way things are shaping up so far, I wonder if the Xbox One will even be have any games.
It's obviously going to play games. Just because they show lots of TV stuff doesn't it can't play any games. It's going to play games just as good as the PS4.
It is obviously going to play games, but they are just excited to play live TV, they have never done this before and they are excited, they probably figured that the audience would obviously know it plays games.
WavelengthPosted:
Trollestia With the way things are shaping up so far, I wonder if the Xbox One will even be have any games.
It's obviously going to play games. Just because they show lots of TV stuff doesn't it can't play any games. It's going to play games just as good as the PS4.
AngerPosted:
Woof-LOST- I wonder who they're going to try and make a deal with.
Probably a sky representative or someone to do with tv sets so we xbox one players can buy it on console or some shiz like that.
Just because it has TV capability doesn't mean the gamings going to suck even the new battlefield 4 looks amazing. If your not a hardcore 24/7 gamer then after your done playing you can just chill and watch some shows. Its a great combo and the improvement on the inside already proves its way to powerful to be just a TV box.
TrollestiaPosted:
With the way things are shaping up so far, I wonder if the Xbox One will even be have any games.
AdamuPosted:
-LOST- I wonder who they're going to try and make a deal with.
For them to get a share?
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