Greenberg: Killing original Xbox Live 'will bring more features to 360'

Microsoft product director Aaron Greenberg has claimed that the death of Live on the original Xbox will allow the firm to add "more features" to 360's service - adding that MS is "definitely aware" of consumer requests for extended Friends' Lists.

Microsoft pulled the plug on Live on the original Xbox last week - but not without some final farewell messages for Halo 2 players.

Greenberg said that the end of the service will allow greater "flexibility" for additions to the 360 online interface in future. That could include a new TV show, according to reports today.

"A lot of our partners talked to us about cutting off Xbox Live support, you kniw, a long time ago, and it was really something that we didn't take lightly," Greenberg told CVG sister mag Xbox World 360.

"We're at that point now where that community has largely transitioned off and onto the Xbox 360, and now, by discontinuing that support, we're able to add more features without necessarily having to support things like that firends list integration where you could see your friends on Xbox1 or Xbox 360. Having that new flexibility will allow us to bring more features to the Xbox Live Community on Xbox 360."

When asked if the new additions to Lie on 360 would include extended friends lists, Greenberg replied:

"We have heard from folks that they want to be able to extend the Friends List. It's something we are looking at. We haven't announced anything but it is definitely something that we're aware of."

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Am i missing something here? How can running a few servers for Xbox 1 possibly in any way restrict services for the 360? Obviously they had to shut it down eventually but all they doing is coinciding the launch of extra features with the death of Xbox 1 to make gullible people think it had to be done.

the original xbox runs on the same service as the 360, that's why they could not update some features. Some xbox game (ie halo2) could not support more than 50 friends in your friends list (bungie said) and since the friends list is integrated to halo 2, it would have broken the game.

They could have tryied to dup the service to separate servers once the 360 was established , it would have been costly (not as simple as say the DC servers) and MS wanted people to upgrade to 360.

I'm sure MS would have pulled xbox support a long time ago, only for halo 2 being so popular