Microsoft is reportedly in talks with British broadcasting giant, Sky, aimed at securing a deal to sell discounted Xbox One consoles to their customers with TV and broadband subscriptions.



From Neowin:

In addition to broadcasting hundreds of TV and radio channels to its customers, Sky is also one of the UK's largest content providers and creators, through its boutique of premium channels, including the Sky Movies and Sky Sports families, as well as Sky Atlantic, offering shows such as Game Of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire and Mad Men. The company already offers an app on the Xbox 360 - built by Microsoft's Xbox team in the UK - which allows subscribers to view programming.

MCV doesn't offer many details in terms of exactly how the arrangement between Microsoft and Sky would work in practice, but it suggests that the deal may already have been done. Last month, Sky told Pocket-lint that it enjoys "a long track-record of innovating with Microsoft on the Xbox platform and will explore any future opportunities offered by Xbox One." Whether this will translate into the kind of deal predicted here remains to be seen - just one more of many unknowns surrounding Microsoft's new console.

  Microsoft and Sky in talks to sell discounted Xbox One with TV subscriptions