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40 Days #6: Release the Windows Mobile Xbox Live client already!

liveanywherephone Of the big three hardware makers, Microsoft is the only one getting spanked in the mobile integration area. Sony has the PSP acting as a remote window into a PS3 partner. Nintendo offers some games that include gameplay integration between the Wii and a DS. Microsoft...has no mobile gaming device, so I guess I shouldn't really complain about a lack of integration, right? Wrong!

Look, I understand that the Zune itself will probably never be a gaming device. That it would be very difficult to come out and try to compete with Sony and especially Nintendo in the handheld gaming market. All that is fine and good.

However, almost two years ago Microsoft announced its Live Anywhere vision - a vision that so far hasn't extended past the PC and the Games for Windows Live initiative. At the same time, about a year and a half ago, Microsoft demonstrated a Windows Mobile client. It seemed to work pretty well. Didn't Microsoft promise? Come on, there are pictures of the thing!

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