Xbox One to restrict Skype, OneGuide and Game DVR to Xbox Live Gold

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If you want to experience many of the features that Microsoft has in store for the Xbox One console, you had better have a paid Xbox Live Gold subscription ready to go. Microsoft has confirmed several of the console's major features will require Xbox Live Gold access.

In a page on the Xbox.com site, Microsoft has a list of all the Xbox One features that will need an Xbox Live Gold subscription. Besides features like playing multiplayer games and accessing streaming videos apps that are already required for the Xbox 360, Xbox Live Gold members who own the Xbox One will be the only ones to use its Skype chat program, the OneGuide television guide menu, the SmartMatch multiplayer matching service and the Game DVR options that let gamers record, save and upload game footage.

We have been critical of Microsoft in the past for insisting that Xbox 360 owners pay extra, via Xbox Live Gold, to access its many streaming video apps like Netflix and Hulu, when those same apps are available on other game consoles, set top boxes and smart TVs without an extra fee. However, this summer Microsoft started offering some extra value to Xbox Live Gold users by letting them download at least two free pre-selected Xbox 360 downloadable games per month; it's unknown if that same program will be extended to the Xbox One.



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DMNDSPosted:

LOL Thats nothing to them

ExoticWolfsPosted:

byLeon
LuckyOtter
soomboodeh Also these features suck ass 1.One guide who gives a ****... 2.Game DVR WHICH ONLY RECORFS THE LAST FIFTEEN SECONDS OF GAMEPLAY. (Not a pS4 fanboy but PS4 last Fifhteen of Gameplay) 3.Skype WOOPDYDOO SAME AS PARTY CHAT AND VIDEO KINECT..... 4.SMART MATCH BASICALLY SENDING TROLLS VS TROLLS IN A GAME IM SORRY THE XBOX ONE ISN't Lookin too good


So many things wrong with this comment I can't even begin to correct them... The internet giving people the ability to post their stupidity to the world since 1990.


he can spell how ever he wants its free will. by the way why is spelling so important on the internet? please explain.


He wasn't talking about the spelling... he was talking about what all he said, there are some things that he didn't even get right in his comment.

TomorrowLandPosted:

Well Microsoft paid $8,500,000,000 ($8.5 Billion) so good for them...

byLeonPosted:

LuckyOtter
soomboodeh Also these features suck ass 1.One guide who gives a ****... 2.Game DVR WHICH ONLY RECORFS THE LAST FIFTEEN SECONDS OF GAMEPLAY. (Not a pS4 fanboy but PS4 last Fifhteen of Gameplay) 3.Skype WOOPDYDOO SAME AS PARTY CHAT AND VIDEO KINECT..... 4.SMART MATCH BASICALLY SENDING TROLLS VS TROLLS IN A GAME IM SORRY THE XBOX ONE ISN't Lookin too good


So many things wrong with this comment I can't even begin to correct them... The internet giving people the ability to post their stupidity to the world since 1990.


he can spell how ever he wants its free will. by the way why is spelling so important on the internet? please explain.

IlIuminatiPosted:

Tolerated I like Skype but I don't like how they turned it around, Skype is free and now you would need to be a Gold member to use it. If they kept Skype free I think a lot more people would buy it just because they can use Skype on TV.

Well if you think about it. Who buys a $500 console and does not get gold lol

VeraPosted:

yip money hungry

-SpaarkyPosted:

Money hungry microsoft.

GoooooooooooooooglePosted:

I can see that most of the new features just fall into the app category anyway and the rest are just bad.

AdamuPosted:

HarmfulMushroom Well who didn't see this coming.. Surprised it took this long for them to officially confirm this honestly.


I didnt but it looks good so far.

HarmfulMushroomPosted:

Well who didn't see this coming.. Surprised it took this long for them to officially confirm this honestly.


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