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Discord for Xbox will be available today for Xbox Insiders and will roll out to everybody else at a later point New Xbox Insiders release notes should be going up soon.

Connect Your Worlds – Discord Voice Chat Comes to Xbox Consoles for Xbox Insiders - Xbox Wire

All your friends and communities in one place Get ready to connect with your Discord friends and communities on Xbox! Discord Voice chat is coming to your Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One consoles. You will be able to chat with anyone on Discord via voice channels or group calls directly from your...

news.xbox.com

 

[DenchDeckard]

Massive! Finally. If this is proper integration I'm so happy.

 

[adamsapple]

Connect Your Worlds – Discord Voice Chat Comes to Xbox Consoles for Xbox Insiders - Xbox Wire

All your friends and communities in one place Get ready to connect with your Discord friends and communities on Xbox! Discord Voice chat is coming to your Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One consoles. You will be able to chat with anyone on Discord via voice channels or group calls directly from your...

news.xbox.com

Today’s update enables a highly requested feature – Discord Voice on Xbox consoles allows you to talk with your friends and community while you play your favorite games. Planning a few rounds of multiplayer action in Halo Infinite with buddies on both console and PC? Exploring new biomes with your friends in Minecraft? See them already playing a game that supports cross-play? Connect to their voice channel and chat as you all play.

 

[PuffyCan]

finally! a must for cross platform gaming

 

[crunchyBiscuits]

They're getting this and they didn't even need to pay the way Sony did!

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Sony looking like idiots now after hyping this like that over a year ago.
Xbox gets it with no announcement like this lmao

 

[DenchDeckard]

Mega! Yeah, it does seem odd that Sony made that big statement about investing and it became nothing burger...then this comes out of no where.

 

[tmlDan]

Mega! Yeah, it does seem odd that Sony made that big statement about investing and it became nothing burger...then this comes out of no where.

it'll likely come to PS too at a later time.

If i recall correctly Xbox partnered with Discord earlier than PS.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

>Your Discord and Xbox are about to become a lot closer

 

[jorgejjvr]

awesome!

sony when?

 

[Thabass]

About time.

 

[R6Rider]

Hopefully the console app isn't a clusterfuck of an interface like the PC app is.

 

[Ellery]

Discord is the best. Wish back in my day something as great was around to easily communicate and organize with online mates while having this amazing user interface and many more features that work well for the service they offer.

 

[Banjo64]

Dunno much about Discord but sounds like something the Switch could do with yesterday.

 

[LordCBH]

Can I do discord voice on ps yet or did Sony drop the ball

 

[xHunter]

Doesnt sound like a native solution:

Discord voice chat on Xbox works by essentially transferring voice chats from Discord to an Xbox, and it's supported on both Xbox One and Xbox Series S / X consoles. That means you can't directly join Discord calls from an Xbox, and there's no dedicated Discord app on the console. Instead, you always use the mobile app to sling calls across, and they integrate into an Xbox Party-like interface.

Discord voice chat is coming to Xbox

Long have we waited, Discord on Xbox activated.

www.theverge.com

 

[tmlDan]

Sony looking like idiots now after hyping this like that over a year ago.
Xbox gets it with no announcement like this lmao

I dont understand how they hyped it? it was the same as the xbox post....it was a twitter post and a blogpost.



That's all.....

 

[HTK]

Sony you taking notes? Because right now you look fucking silly af.

Look at me and my partnership over a year ago and zilch, nothing, nada and then they release where you can connect PlayStation to Discord but not actual use it for what 100% of people want....VOICE FUCKING CHAT!

/rant

EDIT: Props to Microsoft/Xbox Team

 

[Trab-Pu-Kcip]

I don't get the Discord praise; On PS we had communities which allow to exchange messages, gaming request, screenshots, ask for advices to beat a game and so on... then they killed those. Now I have to install an app on my phone which requires to be constantly online (which I avoid) for doing in a worse way the same things. Fuck that.

 

[onesvenus]

I dont understand how they hyped it? it was the same as the xbox post....it was a twitter post and a blogpost.



That's all.....

Well, announcing a partnership with discord and then your competition having a better integration can make you look silly

 

[Bernkastel]

They should integrate Xbox chat into Matrix and promote it. Make their own Matrix client and promote this open standard. Surprised that Microsoft invests so much into failed chat solutions like Teams, Kaizala, Xbox chat only to promote Discord instead of investing into open platforms like Matrix. Mozilla already does that

Matrix - MozillaWiki

wiki.mozilla.org

 

[EverydayBeast]

Not a fan of third party chat support, the normal chat parties are fine.I guess discord support is cool. I remember Microsoft being tight with Skype.

 

[tmlDan]

Well, announcing a partnership with discord and then your competition having a better integration can make you look silly

but Discord partnered with Xbox too, no? Just because the public hyped it that doesn't make it Sony's fault.

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2018/04...team-connect-gamers-across-xbox-live-discord/

 

[Jormatar]

Good stuff. Discord is great for crossplay. Hopefully it won't be long until PlayStation also gets this feature, maybe even as a native app where you don't need your phone at all?

 

[RaZoR No1]

They should integrate Xbox chat into Matrix and promote it. Make their own Matrix client and promote this open standard. Surprised that Microsoft invests so much into failed chat solutions like Teams, Kaizala, Xbox chat only to promote Discord instead of investing into open platforms like Matrix. Mozilla already does that

http://[URL]https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix

[/URL]

Skype...
dont forget Skype...
It even had its own verb... but MS let it die..

 

[Mr Moose]

Mobile app? Why don't they do native apps?

Well, announcing a partnership with discord and then your competition having a better integration can make you look silly

Only took them 3 more years.

 

[reinking]

Let's see how many times Sony will be mentioned in an Xbox announcement thread.

 

[adamsapple]

Let's see how many times Sony will be mentioned in an Xbox announcement thread.

ctrl + f says 12 and counting so far lol.

 

[onesvenus]

but Discord partnered with Xbox too, no? Just because the public hyped it that doesn't make it Sony's fault.

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2018/04...team-connect-gamers-across-xbox-live-discord/

That blog post only talks about seeing your friends statuses.
Sony's one literally talks about "allowing friends, groups, and communities to hang out, have fun, and communicate more easily while playing games together". They were selling their partnership as a bigger thing than what Xbox did.

Only took them 3 more years.

Didn't know PlayStation already had this

 

[adamsapple]

 

[ManaByte]

Certainly looks native.

 

[01011001]

the thing is... the PS5 needs this way more imo.

I can already voice chat on PC with my Xbox friends without any issues due to the native integration of Xbox Party Chat into Windows 10 and 11

but it's always an issue playing with friends who play on PlayStation 4/5 because there is no PC app for their party chat, the only option there is using the phone app, which is obviously not ideal.

so I'm really hoping that Sony isn't overly protective like they still are with mods and also implement Discord chat

 

[Jimmyisback]

Wow. I thought this was a sony ps thing. MS works fast.

 

[ManaByte]

Wow. I thought this was a sony ps thing. MS works fast.

You were able to link your Discord account to Xbox long before the PS announcement, people just way overhyped that announcement when it turned out to be the exact same thing.

 

[elliot5]

Certainly looks native.

it's like, semi native. You have to initiate it from the mobile app (or pc client?) but after that it's integrated in the dash/guide with the limited voice functionality.

 

[reinking]

Certainly looks native.

It looks better then what I thought it was going to be according to the description.

 

[I'm nobody]

it'll likely come to PS too at a later time.

If i recall correctly Xbox partnered with Discord earlier than PS.

2018

 

[I'm nobody]

 

[R6Rider]

 

[01011001]

Discord has a web app right? that works identically to the desktop Discord... right?

well, the Xbox has an extremely good web browser with which you can even do stuff like playing Stadia and GeForce Now... you can even play web based N64 emulators and DOSbox

sooooo... shouldn't it be pretty easy to just bookmark the Discord web app and do all of that from there directly on your console?

 

[//DEVIL//]

Can I do discord voice on ps yet or did Sony drop the ball

You want the switch to run 2 apps at the same time ? Dude .. lol

Edit: quoted the wrong person lol. Ignore

 

[CuNi]

Small but steady steps, I guess?

I still don't understand where the actual issue is with just working with Discord to make a "light"-App available that for example shows you only voice-chats on a server or even only allows to Voice-Call your Friends.
There must be a reason, I'm sure, but still.

 

[01011001]

Small but steady steps, I guess?

I still don't understand where the actual issue is with just working with Discord to make a "light"-App available that for example shows you only voice-chats on a server or even only allows to Voice-Call your Friends.
There must be a reason, I'm sure, but still.

I bet the way games work on a console is in the way. party chat automatically turns off in-game chat and the games need to interface with the party chat System.

so Discord needs to also go through that system for it to work properly is my guess.

 

[twilo99]

They tried to buy it last year didn't they...

 

[twilo99]

Hopefully the console app isn't a clusterfuck of an interface like the PC app is.

Isn't the PC app just a web app wrap?

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Sony looking like idiots now after hyping this like that over a year ago.
Xbox gets it with no announcement like this lmao

Old paradigm thinking.

 

[R6Rider]

Isn't the PC app just a web app wrap?

I don't remember. I haven't used Discord in awhile. All I know is that the downloadable app always had issues with mics so I would use the browser instead.

 

[GreatnessRD]

This is good news for Xbox. Now hurry up, Jimmy. I want to talk to my peasant console friends in our cross-playing games!*

*Relax, I just find using the word peasant too funny. The Master Race was wild for that one, lmao

 

[twilo99]

Right, I might be wrong then because I always use the browser, especially now since you can just "install" any website as an app in windows

 

[Shifty]

Isn't the PC app just a web app wrap?

Yep, it's a Proton app. The mobile version too.

Explicitly designed to be as portable as Resident Evil 4.