You Wanted It—You Got It: Voice
Chat in the Xbox Dashboard!
This fall you'll be able to talk to all your
Xbox Live Friends right from the Xbox Dashboard! Xbox Live
subscribers have been asking for a way to talk to each other outside of
games since the launch of the service way back in November, and Voice Chat
is just what they've been waiting for.
Voice Chat allows you to send and accept
invitations to chat from the Xbox Dashboard. So let's say you sprained your
thumb in a marathon MechAssault session but want to keep in touch
with your Xbox Live posse. Simply set up a Voice Chat session from
the Xbox Live Dashboard and send chat invites to your buddies. They
work just like game invites. Chats can accommodate a maximum of 16 chatters
(depending on your network performance, of course), though realistically 16
voices babbling at once might make it a bit tough to follow the gist of the
conversation. But hey, whatever floats your boat.
Another benefit of Voice Chat is that you will
no longer need to have the same games as your buddies in order to chat with
them. Maybe you're a hardcore sports nut and one of your Friends doesn't
know a hockey puck from a basketball, but loves games like Ghost Recon
and Soldier of Fortune II. You don't have to compromise on which
game to play in order to talk to each other—just set up a Voice Chat session
and you're both happy. Not to make any sweeping gender-based
generalizations, but if you're a guy who mostly plays games where you can
blow stuff up, there may be some females of the species spending a lot of
time in Tetris Worlds or Phantasy Star Online. This would
be a good way to chat 'em up without having to blow 'em up. Know what we
mean?
More coolness about the Voice Chat feature:
these are not random, open-to-anyone chat sessions. You invite your Friends
and they can accept your invite and even bring one of their Friends with our
Friend of a Friend feature. It's a great way to meet new gamers and not have
to worry about creeps. Unless you've got creeps on your Friends List
intentionally—and in that case you're on your own.
We're really excited about this upcoming
feature and just want to say thanks for the great idea. Keep 'em coming.
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