De website Joystiq.com had op de X10 die gisteren plaats vond in San Francisco een interview met niemand minder dan Aaron Greenberg. Daarbij kwam ook het afsluiten van Xbox Live voor de eerste Xbox te praat, en de plannen voor de toekomst.

The big thing that we've been interested in lately is Live going offline for Xbox 1 stuff. When will we see the fruits of Halo 2 players' pain? Basically, it's another way of Chris asking "When will I get to have more than 100 friends?"

(Laughs) Well, one of the nice things about what we're doing with discontinuing the original Xbox Live functionality is that it does allow a lot more flexibility to think about new features and stuff for Xbox 360. We don't have to think about supporting backwards, and so, we haven't announced any specifics, but we are, obviously, now able to bring new experiences, and I'll be excited to share those throughout the year, but right now we haven't given any specifics.

Regarding the 100 friends specifically: we've heard the feedback from the community, we've heard the feedback specifically from Chris Grant, over and over, and it's something that the team is looking at, but we don't have anything specific to announce.

Regarding Xbox 1 games whose Live functionality is no longer there: could there be any chance of seeing them launched as Xbox Originals with reworked Live components, to work on Live.

The way that Originals works is that it's just the digital distribution of the retail game, so we're not retouching those games. They're pretty much as they were. And now we're obviously doing the same thing with Xbox 360 games, so it's more just the distribution. It's not actually changing the bits of the game.