This is a WAAAAAYYYY old rumor, remember about a year ago when the Windows Live Messenger and 360 integration was first being talked about, their was a rumor that the xbox 360 was going to get a thumb keyboard for the controllers as an addon peripheral to make chatting easier.
Well as you might recall a few days ago a leaked video from a reliable site showed off WLM in the next upcoming dash update in May. And today we have guess what… yep a new rumor, from gamespot, (even though the page was yanked perhaps it was an accidental early posting :) ). The rumor this time, once again the Thumbboard has resurfaced with a sexy image! And now that we basically know that WLM support is coming, along with the whole Windows Gaming Live platform. It seems logical that a thumbboard addon would be the next logical step to make wireless gaming and chatting much more plausable. I mean if i can chat wirelessly from my remote with WLM friends, while watching a movie or in a game then hell ya!
One request though to microsoft, if their are bringing the thumbboard to the 360 controller. Please god add a Version of IE to the 360 so I can stop hearing people complain, we now have messenger, you have the thumbstick for mouse and the thumbboard for typing… ITS ALL THEIR!
Source: Engadget
