Hey, go check out our Xbox Live on Windows Phone 7 gaming preview!
By Nilay Patel 
posted August 17th 2010 1:34PM
posted August 17th 2010 1:34PM
posted August 17th 2010 1:34PM
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Seriously, Engadget?
@Colours Yes cuz WP7 is worth it!!
Hey, its either this or more Apple news. Take your pick.
@Colours I think they're just excited.
Come 2011 Windows Phone 7 Xbox integration and Android PSPhone fight to the death.
@Colours An article to remind you to read another article. This is officially a slow newsday.
@Colours
I'm pretty certain he's serious, hence the all-new post. Previews are serious business dontcha know.
@Colours im glad they bumped it. i somehow missed to read the original article.
@Colours Windows Phone 7 looks good... its very well rounded!
Marketplace for apps
office for productivity
zune for music
and XBOX LIVE for gaming!
This looks very promising espeically seeing all of the partners microsoft has behind them
Wow, WP7 is going to have more on the gaming front at launch than Android does now. Microsoft must be paying a buttload of cash to get all these devs onboard with a brand-new platform that faces massive, established competition.
@Colours
We didn't miss it. We were just underwhelmed by it. Yay, jumping Avatars.
@BlackedOut
But I must know more about their sim card ejector!
@TareG what a douche-nozzle. Integration with the system and the XBOX 360 or using bing maps for custom game levels. I'd like to see some other gaming platform match that if they can.
@EggoEspada Yea and Apple will steal the entire market by introducing "all new magical feature Widgets"
@Colours
I for one would WAY rather have these "did you miss" posts than more Apple rumors. That stuff is soooo annoying!!
@Processing
These are phones. I don't use my phone as a gaming platform aside from the occasional game here and there when I have some time to waste. None of the games in the preview look any better than what's available for any other mobile os either.
@Colours Now you know how we feel. It gets annoying right?
@HotFuzz It's a very easy platform to build on since it's visual studio which many many developers are very familar with. Unlike the objective-C (Coca) that Apple uses.
I have built several apps without very many issues finding code samples.. they posted lots of example apps with the source code.. the developer community is huge since its just a dialect of C# (VS.Net)
wow
@RussellPeters
hey give Niley a break he must have drove a Chrysler into a river again and now things are logically following through
@RussellPeters I wish apple made a phone
@Zylam
in his defense, the gps led him into the river.
cmon brah! we know its up
you could have just bump the article with any update.
@pedmart Actually, we can't -- bumping to today would change the post URL. Hence the reminder post.
@Nilay Patel
WTF is up with all the general bitchy-ness of the comments this week? It's a good read, if you don't like it, go to one of the hubs that you do like and read about that. Damn.
By the way, maybe the reason why Nilay wanted to put this post out there is because the main article posted at 11-something at night. just putting it out there...
@Nilay Patel Sellout.
@dorbolo
Point proven...
Better HTC could take WP7 with the 4.3" and the upcoming 1.5Ghz dual core :-P ahh and not to forget android of course(3.0) (off-topic) but i like very much everything on WP7's UI :-D
@BaruteruKun Snapdragon would not result so greatly for this experience.
@EggoEspada look at the gaming article thats snapdragon
First Justin Bieber, now a reminder of a post already up?
Engadget seriously just "bump" it's own article up?
Lol at all the HATERS...
Anyways Xbox Live will def be crucial to the success of WP7 and I'm glad that the games look amazing.
The Metro UI concept though is just not my style. Which sucks. I just plain hate it now.
If it were webOS God that would be amazing...
Still waiting for those Live cross platform Xbox360/PC games.... oh yeah, that got axed. This will either get the same axe or be completely useless.
@icepop77
They came out with a crossover game a few years back, can't think of the title now...anywho, they released it, and then found that a mouse and keyboard player had a huge advantage, and therefore they didn't make any more.
@collindow Shadowrun was the game.
@icepop77 No, no this will not get the axe. It is a major feature of the WP7 environment. Mobile gaming is part of the smartphone market and Microsoft is the one company in the strongest position to implement it in a way none of the others can.
@icepop77 Why would they axe this? The is one of their MAIN selling points.
@icepop77 There are a lot of live games for pc, dawn of war 2 comes to mind. You cant play 360s over live due to keyboard/mouse being better then a joystick. (its been proven) But you can still get achievements through your live account on pc exclusive games.
Awesome. Great preview Engadget
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When it has the "breaking" flag , I get really excited.
a small new low for engadget
a large new low for mankind!
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WP7 is just that awesome. Deal with it. ;)
Only thing getting me down is the lack of leaked hardware for the CDMA carriers. Where is the Sprint_W phones yet!?!?!
@IM0001
It's so awesome, it only runs one app at a time.
It's so awesome, it doesn't support flash, despite both parties wanting it.
It's so awesome, it doesn't support clipboard action in its "office".
It's so awesome, it's game lineup is as impressive as a napping squirrel.
It's not so awesome; and that, I have to deal with.
Stop hating on MS and WP7 this is big news because so many counted MS out of the smartphone market because of winmo but it looks like they are back in the game great new os ms office xbox games MS is swinging hard at Android which I happen to own (evo) and the Iphone.
Repost.
I wonder if this is going to be the "Killer App" for Windows Phone 7??
@Hazdaz
So far, it is. No other OS has it. On the other hand, there are tons of other features lacking on WP7 and available for Android, webOS, and iPhone, who only need to integrate a "Live-like" service to catch up in this particular domain.
So far, I find Android to be winning the "OS features" fight, and nobody can deny this fact.
@TareG
Even if everyone else made an Xbox Live-like service none of them have the infrastructure or branding like Microsoft does to make it comparable. Microsoft has a huge advantage by already having their own successful (as far as popularity) gaming division. They have relationships with all the big developers, they have the Xbox Live service already running, just about everyone already has an account. No one else the type of integration that Microsoft has.