Microsoft announced that buyers of the new Xbox One will also recieve 6 months free skype premium for the console. So what does that actually give you?
Normally you can call video to video but only with 1 person, if you want to have a group video call then you must pay the 5$/€ a month fee to enable this feature. Whether this is a feature that players will actually use a lot remains to be seen.
The offer also means that Xbox Live Gold Members will be able to use 100 worldwide minutes per month for calls to mobile and landlines in over 50 countries. This promotion is available only in the 13 launch territories, and must be redeemed by the end of March 2014. There is no mention as whether the countries that are delayed until February will recieve a similar offer.
The Skype video calls will be of course through the Kinect 2.0 which means that they will be in 1080 HD. There is also no mention what the cost will be for the sevice after the free trial ends, most likely it will remain the same cost that it is for normal Skype users.
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