Microsoft to integrate Skype with LIVE

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kowenicki said:

Wander_ said:
Console are becoming less gaming. What a sad time we live in

No they aren't. They are just becoming more other things. More other things doesn't need to mean less gaming. How does this, or multi media apects, diminish the gaming aspect in any way?

Because your family/house members will bug you to watch a movie on netflix, or skype with their grandmother in some forsaken region of the world or, god forbid, want to play on the Kinect. Keep a console for only gaming (while keeping the store, some form of chat to other players, etc), people who don't game won't take a second look at it. That's what Wander may have been gravitating towards or at least the general idea. Having a variety of functions obviously makes it more valuable of course and adding skype was a good move on their part.