Xbox 360 Games on Demand Revealed

None of those games are any good anyway

Looks like half the launch games are on there haha. Still have the launch 360 with the 20GB hard drive hardly have enough space to be downloading any games. Good forward thinking for Microsoft, I can't imagine the next generation console having less than 1 TB of hard drive space.

Elder Scrolls? Mass Effect? Didn't Elder Scrolls win GOTY and Mass Effect in contention for it? Oh.

Cool

One part of me says that this will be great because it will help drive gamestop out of business.

But another part of me is worried that I won't be able to get some money back by selling on ebay or somewhere if I make a mistake and buy crappy game. I also won't be able to borrow games from friends too.

Finally my biggest concern is that if we all start buying games from one provider, Xbox Live, PSN or Steam, then they will have monopoly pricing power and no more great deals from amazon or newegg or walmart. No more competition from retailers...

Oooo maybe they can offer used games? Most of those seem to be avail as used for $10-20

lol "Slightly used digital copy"

Im no sony fanboy PS3's suck too

What they need to make is a NAS that you can play from and have multiple 360's attached to

Oh, on the actual subject. They've been doing this for old Xbox games, this isn't really FANCY of them

Make them "price is right" is most important thing

Mass Effect was one of the most tedious and boring games I've played since Genesis. It boggles me to see how it got the rating that it did. In fact, it was so bad, I'm willing to give it away under two conditions, one, the person pays the postage and two, they also agree to take Genesis along with it.

The only limiting factor is the hard drive size. I wish MS allowed standard 2.5 user upradeable drives. I actually prefer playing downloaded games so I don't have to switch discs. Now, why can't you register a disc for one system so you don't need to verify the disc if you do a full install?

Are you saying this is a bad thing?
So where's Civ Rev? I thought that one was coming too. I love Civ on the PC but for multiplayer I actually like this one as it plays fast. Good for the quick kill.

Only 2 good games on that list.... Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Mass Effect

I don't see anything worth buying on that list. I've either played them and don't like them or already know they suck.

I love this service.

What sucks though is that I will forever be stuck with the shitty sized HD's that MS decides will be enough for us 360 users. I paid for a console and its 20GB drive, now I must shell out for a 120GB that fills up pretty fast with games around 6-9gb. C'mon MS, release a bigger drive damn it!

Original xbox games? Halo trilogy?

This article leaves me with a few questions. Do the games have a download limit before you have to pay again? If not then it could be a good deal if the prices are fair.

If they're priced like everything else on XBOX live then this is completely pointless. Who wants a 7 year old XBOX game for $20?

I never sell my used games but I buy them, eliminating that market will suck for gamers. I only spend $20 or less on a game. If the only way I can get one is to pay the full $60 because there's no second hand I think I might just give up on gaming in general. I'd rather have a pair of shoes than some stupid video game anyways.

XBOX live prices are insanity!

I don't agree with MS releasing a bigger HD. All they have to do is make it so that people who purchase a 360 can use either a USB HD or install a bigger HD (Not purchased through MS) on the 360.

One big problem, MS then you have their DRM (STEAM) copycat that is MS will own you and your MS DRM infected games. NOpe, give my brick and mortar stores and a physical disk in my hand.
Then you the Crapbox 360s Hard Drive that is proprietary. The PS3 is any 2.5" SATA drive you want to stick in it. You can actually pull it and put it in a external HD encloser ($20.00 at Newegg) and back the whole thing up to another drive. 3.5" 1 Terabyte drives can be had for about $100 now.

Costs will be driven down but not prices.

New games on Steam still sell for $49.99 even without the additional costs of physical media. Bottom line is a fat profit margin but still the same or even higher (because they're the only one selling) prices.

would be nice if they either unlocked the hard drive system for user replaceable units or came out with larger capacity models themselves... even the 120gb model is tiny... come on microsoft... the idea is good but make it easier for customers to buy up those games with online storage capacity that reflects your will to sell them content!

i wish they would have Kotor D: that would atleast fit on my harddrive

No points, no pants, no complaints from me

What ever happened to seppuku?

I have just this past weekend put in a 500GB 2.5" 7200RPM HD into my PS3, I have a 1TB LaCie USB drive with 1TB capacity (931GB) as my backup and restore source for my PS3, restores work great, also my place for saving my trailers and pics for my PS3. MS should have done the HD scenario like Sony did., but alas they wanted to suck money from the user, hardly a new concept from MS.

Sounds like a good idea, unless of course you have just the Arcade or Core version of the 360 which means you gotta go out and buy a hard drive . Anyway as long as it's cheaper than the boxed version at the store I'm sure people will spend money they otherwise wouldn't simply because it's convenient. It also sounds like a great way for MS to put extra server capacity to use and earn some more money, like they even need to.

This is not true. Bandwidth actually costs money, servers actually cost money. The idea that they're fattening their profit margin by not selling brick-and-mortar is false. They release both on steam and through brick and mortar to sell more copies to more people overall. If you notice anytime a retailer releases an update, or wants to sell extra copies they can slash the price on Steam for a weekend and renew interest in a game. Offering customers multiple ways to obtain your product and giving them incentives to use your service is just good business sense.

That being said, who cares if you can do this on a 360? What happens when you RROD, or your crappy proprietary hard drive craps out? Microsoft has built a machine that is so utterly incomplete they will be nickle-and-dime-ing customers for years.

Does anyone else think it's funny that the article makes sure to not you can use real cash and not MS cash on the games you buy?

Looks to me like Microsoft's practicing for their next xbox.

The only problem with this idea is that the 360 users will need to drop their pants and lean over twice. First time is to upgrade to a 120GB hard drive, then later when people start complaining, conveniently release a larger capacity hard drive thats even more expensive than the 120GB....

I wish microsoft went open standards like sony did. I hate it how i cant use a random mic with playing on xbl. Or be stuck with the 20GB hdd i bought from a pawn broker.

People capable like me can purchase rrod 360s @ ~AU$50 from the nearest pawn broker, replace x-clamps, cook it in the oven for 30mins and then sell as a repaired modded console for profit. So im grateful for the dicks who bought rrod ridden 360s as they provide good income for a couple an hours work.

If you couldn't tell, im a ps3/pcfanboi.....

Be great if they did something like this for the PS3, you know, the console with a hard drive that you can upgrade, the one that is bigger than 20Gb.