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Whitten spoke extensively about social networking on Xbox Live, Arcade games and the future of digital distribution.
"It has always been our ambition to create this community of people playing together and having these great experiences," he says. "We have 20 million people on the Xbox Live service, and 6 million people that return a day, and we saw this future that was possible, and what's cool now is that I think we're in that future. "
Facebook and Twitter functionality will be added to Xbox Live.
"Live is the largest social network in the living room and when we marry that with Facebook, it takes it to the next level, and starts to expand those social aspects well beyond gaming." (Last year Microsoft, owner of Xbox, paid US$240 million for a 1.6 per cent stake in Facebook.)
"Part of where we went last year with NXE (a new dashboard for Xbox) was about creating a system where we could add functionality and features at a much faster rate than before.
For example, Live's Movie on Demand service means 1080p high- definition movies can be streamed to an Xbox 360 console instead of relying on a download.
Live is much more about how to bring a living room alive and real friends together, whether in person or not.
A few days before E3 kicked off, Microsoft announced that the classic Nintendo 64 shooter game, Perfect Dark, was headed to Xbox Live Arcade, and while Whitten wasn't willing to spill too many beans on the modern reimagining of heroine Joanna Dark, he said, "The team is working on it, it's up and running, and it's already fun . . . it's going to be a great classic".
In August, Live will launch its Retail Games on Demand, at prices that will match retail. Thirty games will be offered, then a new game added weekly, and you can use a credit card as well as Microsoft points.
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