Inside Xbox Cancelled

<p>Microsoft announced that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Inside Xbox&comma;” the on-console video service will be discontinued in the US&period;  Major Nelson broke the news on his <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;majornelson&period;com&sol;2012&sol;05&sol;02&sol;changes-for-inside-xbox-u-s" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">blog<&sol;a>&comma; but didn’t offer an explanation beyond &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;we must continue to invest our resources and talents wisely&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The US version is viewed on servers in Canada&comma; Australia and New Zealand&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We will be leveraging third-party news and video content available through a variety of existing and future partners&comma; and supplementing this content with select first-party offerings&comma;&&num;8221&semi; added Nelson&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;However&comma; day-to-day news content and weekly programming currently offered though Inside Xbox will cease production in the United States&period; This includes shows like Major&&num;8217&semi;s Minute&comma; Featured Videos and Insider Moves packaged under the Inside Xbox brand&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That does not explain what&comma; if anything&comma; will be happening to the European versions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Xbox Live in EMEA is currently looking at its operating model for Inside Xbox&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he wrote&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;This could potentially result in some changes&comma; but we have no news here to share yet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Xbox Live in Mexico and Japan will continue to produce first-party content for its members via other media outside of the Inside Xbox brand&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With the addition of a number of video providers to the Xbox 360 dashboard last year&comma; including&colon; Netflix&comma; BBC iPlayer&comma; 4oD and LoveFilm&comma; and entertainment application usage has reportadly surpassed actual online gaming&comma; perhaps that shift in focus has come at the expense of Microsoft’s internal video teams&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2012-05-02-microsoft-cancels-inside-xbox-in-the-us">EuroGamer<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;