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Sky and Microsoft announced today full Kinect integration with the Sky Player on Xbox 360.

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Xbox Live studios boss Jerry Johnson has said Microsoft is still aiming the service towards the hardcore audience, despite worries Kinect signalled a move towards the casual demographic.

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According to a Microsoft PR, over 10 million Xbox Live users have used Twitter, Facebook, last.fm, Zune Marketplace and Sky Player.

That’s over half of the now confirmed 20 million users that populate Xbox Live.

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Sky’s On Demand director Griff Parry has revealed that a PS3 version of the Sky Player could be on the cards for the future.

It comes as the service launched last week on the Xbox 360, with the service being pulled soon after due to “phenomenal demand.”

“I can talk generally about our desire to extend to any device that supports a good quality experience to project the content. The PS3 is clearly a device where that is possible. And so it may very well happen in the future. Having said that, we’re very happy to be working with Xbox for the time being,” said Parry.

So far, in the UK, the PS3 has a native version of the BBC iPlayer service.

Thanks, Videogamer.

Microsoft has pulled Sky Player from Xbox 360 after an “unforeseen technical issue,” and hopes to relaunch the service tomorrow.

“The Sky Player on Xbox 360 service did successfully launch early this morning, it has subsequently been suspended due to an unforeseen technical issue,” read a statement from the publisher. “With so much excitement and interest in the service, we’d much prefer to ensure that our customers enjoy the highest possible quality of service.

“We would like to take this opportunity to apologize to our customers who have attempted to access the service today. Sky Player engineers are hard at work to resolve the problem – we expect to have the full service available tomorrow.”

There ya go.

Via GI.biz.

Microsoft Ireland confirmed to VG247 at a press event held two weeks back in Dublin that Sky TV will release for Xbox 360 in the UK in October.

The company has told CVG this morning that a date for the service still hasn’t been confirmed, despite the latest edition of the official Sky magazine listing an October date.

Subscription packages hadn’t been put in place at the time of the event. HD packages aren’t planned for now.

So now you know.