Xbox One to restrict Skype, OneGuide and Game DVR to Xbox Live Gold
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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higuybyePosted:
Boarpig Pay 4 Skype? HAHAHA
For group chats you have to pay anyway, this way you get more out of Skype.
I can group chat without paying... You just can't group chat with video.
BoarPosted:
pig Pay 4 Skype? HAHAHA
For group chats you have to pay anyway, this way you get more out of Skype.
LuckyOtterPosted:
F-18Sanchezio Ummm, Microsoft. Skype is free o.0, why would that be added to the gold only list, some things I just don't understand.
Money grabbing bastar*s.
Umm... I don't know if you guys have Skype but for a party video chat it is NOT free. Which is what you can do on the Xbox...
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