Microsoft Inc, revealed last week that they have developed technology to allow its next-generation home-use video game console, Xbox 360, to be connected online with portable game machines of rival firms, such as Sony and Nintendo.

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Users of the Sony (NYSE: SNE) Latest News about Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) and the Nintendo Latest News about Nintendo DS will thus be able to connect their machines with the Xbox 360 Latest News about Xbox and play Microsoft’s games over the Internet, Microsoft officials said.

All three game console manufacturing companies plan to equip their next-generation game consoles with advanced Internet connection functions and appears to have already started on possible collaboration on the matter.