Microsoft: We want Skype on PS4
Posted on 29th August 2013 - 8:45am by Andrew Andronicou
Microsoft’s corporate vice-president for Skype, Mark Gillett, has expressed his desire to bring the Skype video-calling service to the PlayStation 4 console.
During the Xbox One reveal event in May Microsoft demonstrated how Skype would be integrated with their new Xbox One console and it appeared to be a unique feature however Skype want their video-call platform to be as open as possible by being available on as many devices as possible.
Speaking to the BBC Gillett said:
Amazingly, if the Skype app were to come to PS4 it would make history for being the first time users of two mainstream home consoles (the Xbox One and PS4) could directly communicate with one another!
In 2011 Microsoft purchased Skype for $8.5 billion.
Source: BBC News
http://www.handytips.info/1567/microsoft-we-want-skype-on-ps4/
Section from original BBC article:
PS4 support?
In the meantime Mr Gillett said Skype was exploring how to offer 1080p "super-high definition" video call resolution to other devices apart from the forthcoming Xbox One video games console.
Since the standard would require extra processing power, he added that tablets and laptops were set to gain the facility ahead of smartphones.
And he would not rule out the software coming to Sony's PlayStation 4 which will compete with Microsoft's machine.
"We've worked with Sony for a long time," he said. "Skype ships today on the PlayStation Portable amongst other cross-platform devices that we deliver to, and for the last few years we've also been shipping versions of Skype that run on Sony TVs.
Skype runs on the PlayStation Portable and Vita handheld consoles, but has not been announced for the PS4
"We're obviously not party to their pre-release [PlayStation] hardware road map [but] we're committed to cross-platform."
Mr Gillett would not comment on leaked documents suggesting the US National Security Agency had been able to spy on Skype video calls since July 2012.
The Guardian quoted one memo as saying: "The audio portions of these sessions have been processed correctly all along, but without the accompanying video. Now, analysts will have the complete 'picture'."
Microsoft previously declared that any changes it has made to Skype's systems since acquiring the business in 2011 "were not made to facilitate greater government access".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23866593
Where @Loose at? I told you the Skype division wouldn't be cool with letting a competitor like "Google Hangouts" take that marketshare on the PS4.
