Microsoft beats Apple, Google to acquire media startup - Report

@steelmouth they bought a bunch of technology rights and the people who created and developed it

@3199eddie I've got both PSN and Xbox live, PSN plus is only good for the free games , everything else sucks and is hard to find. Xbox live is the best at everything! And that folks, is the cold hard truth!

 @3199eddie I agree with the OP whole heartedly, while most people who buy a consoles system will never take full advantage of all the multimedia features the fact is :

If you do not have a rich multimedia features set you will simple not draw in the 'heat seekers' the hard core gamers. Who not only know how to take advantage of these ancillary uses but use them freq. 

True most older gamers, very young, etc will have no interest (im 41 besides netflix don't really use to many other features on a console or pc) But when younger brothers and sisters see the hardcore set playing MP, live chat, internet, dlc, dgo, file sharing, media streaming, social, on and on they will want that system. And then demand future systems, they buy, have them also. 

Take my favorite console maker Nintendo - who shied away from internet, cd-rom, voice chat, multiplayer, well just about everything. They have pushed themselves into such a niche gaming console that soon they will not be taken seriously. 

I for one am all about the game, but the game is now alot more varied incontent then before and i want a system that will take advantage of it to the fullest. 

 @Albaficaslol keep dreaming

apple is already taking over worldwide

 @SolidTy Excited?  Probably not.  But if you don't know what the sling box was, it was pretty cool.  A friend of mine used a sling box on his satellite box to stream whatever was playing on his satellite online (only for his own personal use of course) so he could watch his satellite tv at work.  I got to see it working.  It was pretty cool.

 @Jebril Despite weak sales numbers Windows Phone's have received a lot of favorable reviews. It will only be a matter of time before more people start jumping ship to Windows Phone imo. Apple has recently seen a plummet in their stock and I think a lack of variety from model to model and the very high price tag are some key reasons.

 @bdiddytampa And because PS3 isn't trash...don't leave that important detail out.

 @bdiddytampa 

So iz Live silver

Have fun paying none 2nd hand games on the PS4

 @VampireLord123

 Computing is shifting from the desktop to the sofa.  Everyone wants to be THE device that you turn to when you sit down on your living room couch.

 @VampireLord123 Are you going to use those same exact devices over the next 7-8 years? No you are going to upgrade them, and when its time to do so the new box will seem much more practical

 @juboner Last I checked, gamers are gaming on the 360 just fine (one of the best paid services). Heck, MS put quite a bit of cash into Halo 4.....

 @billlabowski

 Apple TV is my top Netflix device.

 @billlabowski PS3 for the cheapest Blu-ray player available (at least when PS3 launched).

 @Armyboy5

 Sony is doing the EXACT SAME THING as MS. 

 @Armyboy5 This makes no since.I love the fact that my   three and four hundred dollar consoles can do more that just play games, all these added services and addons' gives the console more value imo.

also you say your getting a ps4 next generation and you hoping to get it mainly for gamin?lol Sony's console is the most used console for Netflix, friend. plus, most of the people who have ps don't even play games,They just watch Bu Rays and play music.

If you want to game you have to go where the gamers are and that is Xbox.

 @Armyboy5 Why do you think that the PS4 will be less multimedia than the next XBox?

 @Marky360 yes you have to pay extra for few things on xbox, but, you know, ms is much bigger company than sony, their expectations and bottom line is much higher, they have to please a lot more shareholders and thus need to earn a lot more profit. they compete with google and apple whose products almost everyone in the world uses. even their latest big thing kinect is an experiment towards much bigger things than actually something for gamers. please adjust your expectations accordingly. 

 @Marky360 i agree with Fail_Tr0LL, its an amazing service i started with PS3 at the beginning of this generation and shifted within 24 hours of having to Xbox 360 and never regretted it since the PS3 is a upscaled PSP system basically with some fancy features and little to no decent games, i pay for Xbox LIVE because the service is epic and gets better and better the HDD to buy i chose to do that myself as i am not a casual gamer, difference between Microsoft and Sony, Microsoft are bold and actually believe in their product which is why do this because they know it will work and also it secures extra profit to channel back into the system, Sony well just look at them their struggling and are probably estatic that this gen is coming to an end because they themselves know the PlayStation 3 completely failed in all areas the PlayStation 2 succeeded i mean god the PS2 outsold the PS3 in the PS3's first two years on the market says alot about that system and the Xbox 360 was competing against the PS2 at this point too. PS3 = Epic Fail  

 @Marky360 "Microsoft makes you pay for everything"

...pretty sure I chose to buy xbox live, a hard drive, and a rechargeable battery pack. Maybe there was a gun pointed at my head that I was unaware of?