Microsoft confirms no voice-chat between Xbox One and 360

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A bit more info has now bubbled forth, this time about communicating with friends on other consoles. Chief Xbox One platform architect, Marc Whitten, told IGN – as part of an ongoing ‘Ask Microsoft Anything’ panel – that, even though friends will be able to see each other’s presence on Xbox Live, voice chat won’t be supported between the Xbox 360 and Xbox One consoles:

Is there cross-console Party Chat? i.e. since it’s all ‘Xbox Live’, can people on Xbox 360s Party Chat with their friends on Xbox One?

For a variety of technical reasons, including the sound quality that I talk about below – we don’t support voice chat between the two systems. You will still be able to send and receive text messages to friends on both systems, however.”

The “sound quality” aspect that Whitten mentions refers to the improvements that Microsoft has made in improving audio chat on the Xbox One. Whereas the Xbox 360 headset worked with 16kHz downstream / 8kHz upstream at 14-bit compressed, the Xbox One’s headset (which will be included in the box with the console) streams 24kHz audio at 16-bit resolution uncompressed, both upstream and downstream.

Incidentally, as TechRadar mentions, Sony won't have any problems with cross-console chat between the PlayStation 4 and its PS3 predecessor. According to the big cheese at Sony UK, Fergal Gara, when asked about chat between the two consoles, he simply replied: "It's there."

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IlcamorristaPosted:

Suck
TeamArianaGrande I won't be getting xbox till the price goes down. I also kinda wish it did support between both but it can only make since.


You'll be waiting a long time
they said the price won't change no matter the time period it's been out.

IlcamorristaPosted:

That's a big let down since my friends may not be able to afford it on launch.

_BalePosted:

Katsumi
_Bale Well that's a bummer, I don't think they realize that there's still going to be a lot of users on the 360 wanting to talk to friends on the XBOX one.


While this is true most Xbox 360 users will be moving to either the Xbox One or Playstation 4. It was likely an unnecessary cost for Microsoft


Yeah, I understand what you're saying, but It would be better to be able to talk to others on different gen consoles.

KatsumiPosted:

_Bale Well that's a bummer, I don't think they realize that there's still going to be a lot of users on the 360 wanting to talk to friends on the XBOX one.


While this is true most Xbox 360 users will be moving to either the Xbox One or Playstation 4. It was likely an unnecessary cost for Microsoft

KatsumiPosted:

TeamArianaGrande I won't be getting xbox till the price goes down. I also kinda wish it did support between both but it can only make since.


The price will not be going down anytime soon, you will be waiting until around late 2014/ 2015 if you plan to go through with this.

_BalePosted:

Well that's a bummer, I don't think they realize that there's still going to be a lot of users on the 360 wanting to talk to friends on the XBOX one.

BrosPosted:

This is so sad, they should've made it so you can talk across platforms

RequirementPosted:

Thats stupid.. I don't like this.

TurrentXLPosted:

ONE MORE TIME AND i swear it will be bad

TurrentXLPosted:

wait who will run it?????


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