Xbox Live is Built into Windows 8 Computers

[Reasonable]

D-Joe said:

Reasonable said:
Assuming this is real, the challenge is surely going to be cost/justification across platforms, no?

I mean, no way am I paying a dime to access anything through my PC other than my ISP costs. So that means I'd expect Live to be free on PC, certainly no way would I want it to hinder all the access I already have via OS independant browsers.

But as a 360 owner I'd be pretty pissed to see PC gamers getting Live free.

I'm really not clear on how this would work given the existing live model on 360 and the clear failure of trying to charge for Live on PC already.

I guess I'll wait for further details.

there is no GFWL any more

you just use XB Live on PC,but for play 360 games,you still need 360

and you playing PC game(online) still free,and 360 game(online)still need charge

So what would Live in Windows give me then?  Media access?  I have that in spades already.  Also, if Live means OS controlled access, while I can see it might make access simpler for some isn't MS going to run into the same trouble globally it did with IE regarding building in competing elements to standalone solutions?

The more I think about it the more I'm unsure what this means.  The only thing that would make sense to me is stripping the game elements from Live and replacing Windows Media Player with Live as your entertainment access hub.

Either way it sounds confusing at this point and hard to see what it adds apart from potentially more redundant or overlapping functionality I already have.  There's nothing I get through Live on my 360 I don't have on my PC already really, apart from the online game elements and as I stated surely MS would run into the classic free vs fee issue on PC if they tried to charge for matchmaking, party chat, etc. services?