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Xbox Games on Demand... But Why?

August 06, 2009 in Blog comments 9

Aaron Mitchell from That Aussie Game Site takes a look at the pros and cons of Microsoft's Games On Demand service including price points, why no recent titles and why the 120GB hard drive still costs a fortune.

"I’m a big fan of moving away from standard retail, but the reason I’m a big fan is because the idea of downloading all your games should make it cheaper, easier and more convenient to get the games you want. The service Xbox is providing at launch doesn’t seem cheaper, easier or more convenient to me."
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  • 2
    Dragoshi1 Aug 7, 09
    The games are overpriced IMO


    29.99 for Oblivion and Call of Duty 2!? That's freakin' crazy!
    • 1
      Dragoon Aug 7, 09
      ^ This. Most Xbox games are way too hih a price for the game inside. I recently got Guitar Hero: Metallica and it was over £75 including Guitar and a special edition cover. I can understand the pric being higher because of the added features, but £75 is too high imo. I'm with Drago Shi aswell, CoD 2 was waaay too over priced. Maybe if Microsoft lowered the price of there games by say, 15%, then maybe people would buy the games more.
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    CraigAAG Aug 7, 09
    I agree, this service will be pretty useless.
  • 0
    IntoxicA Aug 7, 09
    I think the service is a joke, Games like Call of Duty , Perfect Dark Zero are available for $49.95. Mass Effect is $100.00 Australian. Now most you out there would know you can buy this games now from EB or JB HIFI or Game for well under that price.
  • 0
    LOD-squa Aug 7, 09
    I think this is just a waste of money. I was looking foward to it but after seeing these prices I rather go to gamestop and buy it used.
  • 0
    Kave En Aug 7, 09
    Why is this in PS3 section? Fail
    • 2
      Star of Spurs Aug 7, 09
      I assume because some of the games are multi-platform.

      Can you please stop going into every article and saying 'WHY IS THIS IN PS3?!!!!! FAIL!'. It's getting tiresome.
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        BANDITO ATTACK Aug 7, 09
        kids that never let go of old memes and very stale shit like 'fail' make me hate the internet. it's the laziest, most uncreative way to insult anything.
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        chautemoc Aug 7, 09
        Nevertheless, Stars has a point -- the categories are supposed to be unchecked. I liked the old system better though where you had to manually check the appropriate categories..will look into getting this possible changed.

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