{"id":334833,"date":"2010-02-18T04:36:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T09:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5474477"},"modified":"2010-02-18T04:36:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T09:36:24","slug":"windows-phone-7-could-allow-for-playstation-integration-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/334833","title":{"rendered":"Windows Phone 7 Could Allow For PlayStation Integration [Microsoft]"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you do if you really want a Windows Phone<\/a> 7 handset but prefer PlayStation to Xbox 360<\/a>? Microsoft may end up catering for you too, with a senior product manager on the mobile division musing on the possibility.<\/p>\n

Michael Chang told TechRadar<\/a> that Microsoft’s doesn’t intend to be a closed door to other companies.<\/p>\n

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“If you look at our history in mobiles, we have never blocked anything off this platform because we compete in the same space, at least not in the phone space.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Typically, he couldn’t actually pinpoint “a specific scenario” where they’ve allowed competing products onto their phones, but mentioned they allow Exchange “on other devices.” At a hefty license cost, I’m sure.<\/p>\n

But going back to allowing users of WP7 to integrate their PlayStation Network stats and games, it’s something they’re considering.<\/p>\n

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“We think it’s pretty clear – I was slightly worried that when we showed off Xbox Live on the Windows Phone 7<\/a> platform people might think it was Microsoft trying to own the [mobile] world.<\/p>\n

“But the simplest way to put it is that there’s a very obvious reason we called it the Games hub and the Music + Video hub: Zune and Xbox are key parts, but not the only parts, of the overall Windows Phone experience.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But will they let me play Donkey Kong Country? [TechRadar<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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