Microsoft Supplies Children’s Hospitals With Xbox 360 Consoles
Microsoft is working together with Companions in Courage Foundation (CiC) to help deliver hundreds of the Xbox 360 consoles to children’s hospitals all over the country. The first set of consoles were released in late April at the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital in New York, the Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, and the Children’s Hospital in Orange Country, California.
In a CiC press release Microsoft President of Entertainment and Devices Division, Robbie Bach, said:
“Microsoft is committed to keeping kids entertained in a variety of ways within a safe gaming environment, so partnering with Companions in Courage to offer children in hospitals a way to connect through something as universal as games, is a natural fit for the work we do. The goal for this program is to give these kids a chance to have some fun and just be kids.”
The kiosks are pre-loaded with a variety of E and E10+ rated games, Y-rated television programs, G-rated movies. They are customized and hospital-friendly with Xbox LIVE Headset and LIVE Vision Camera capabilities, which enable patients to communicate over a dedicated Xbox LIVE network. The network allows patients to play games over Xbox LIVE, but limits chat via voice, text and video to those children playing from the networked hospitals.
The Companions in Courage Foundation was founded by NHL Hall of Famer Pat LaFontaine in 1997. CiC builds interactive playrooms in hospitals throughout North America.
