Full game downloads, Avatar Marketplace coming to Xbox Live

Wait so out of the 30 Games they chose. They put in Sonic The Hedgehog? uhhhhhhhhhhh..........right.

that good 360 is doing that is better then playstation home.

Woo! Go Microsoft!

I will stick with renting games.

Great!

This will be great for some countries.

Not a bad idea. Especially if you are having a hard time finding the game on retail shelves. How long doesn't it take to download a 5 GB game? lol!! If I had Verizon FIOS, this probably wouldn't be a problem. User's rating isn't a bad idea either. Hopefully it doesn't get abused.

@DarkNeoBahamut: Lol although it's funny, I totally agree with you

great (for countries with fast internet :( )

Sweet, user ratings for downloads so you don't have to waste your money on something thats not worth it.

What's with all of this negative feedback, MS add new features and people complain, OPTIONAL FEATURES, I repeat OPTIONAL. Yes a bigger HDD for a cheaper price than what the 120g is would be really great but they've just announced the features, and perhaps they've yet to announce a bigger HDD at TGS this year.

dont really care...

does anybody know when all these new features are going to come out?

I'm still gonna get the real version, disc and booklets included, UNLESS a big price difference between the two versions...

Good things to come.

There´s not enough space in the harddrive for this to work. It's just like the virtual console before the last update.

Awesome.............

im not a x box gamer but im pretty sure its a rippoff to have to download games you can buy at the store

full game downloads would be good if I had a faster DSL speed (like 20 megabits/sec) and larger HDD space to compensate (at least 1 TB)... but I don't, and since I buy a lot of games I'd definitely need quite a bit of HDD space

Forget buying these games, why not rent them like they do movies. I got a 120 GB hard Drive so space doesn't mean much. Its the money that matters. I go to blockbuster to rent a game only to find them out of the new ones. So I think renting would be more convenient then buying. But they have to have 60 bucks instead of 5 or 10 dollars, and it doesn't matter what there users say.

I´ve always thought that a user rating option was going to come to the Marketplace, I´m very happy to see it come.

ODST Avatar COOOOOOLLLLLLL Now... How about XBox Live per Console instead of per Person. How many Families want to Shell out $200 a year so every family member can have a Profile? Not this Family...

Oo, great, we can download massive game files on a not so massive HDD. Yeah, that sounds like a great idea. It wouldn't be bad if MS didn't limit your HDD options so severely and if they didn't charge a ridiculous amount for them. I suppose for those who are able to allow their wallet to take it up the rear this is good news; for those not quite so masochistic, it's rather useless.

Here is to hoping being able to buy directly with a credit card spreads to the rest of the Marketplace and won't just be for the game downloads.

This "Glorified Blu-Ray Player" made MGS4 possible, by the way. Of course hard drive space is gonna be an issue, that`s how they`re going to make more money - want games on demand? No prob, just buy another one of our ridiculously priced HDD! And yes, blu-ray drive does make a difference, for example in Bioshock, the developers were able to add much more higher quality textures, models, etc in the game. Which was not possible on 360. It`s just the matter of developers bothering to take the full advantage of the technology.

what im desperately hoping for is that this new service will bring down costs of hard drives. previously not many people were buying hard drives, so they had to keep costs high, but with downloadable games, the demand for more storage space will most likely go way up, bringing down the hard drive costs to, dare i say, a reasonable price!

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LOLZ at full game downloads. Because I want to buy a game that not only fills my hardrive but I can't eBay when I'm done with it? Stupid idea.

@ck666 LOL! That is the dumbest excuse I have ever heard! Do you seriously think that's why they're doing this? Because the 360 doesn't have Blu-ray??? I think games on demand is a great idea. The hard drive space may be an issue, but whatever.

Speaking of ODST, IGN has a video of the demo, which looks cool. Just thought I'd tell everyone!

That`s just stupid - a full game like Bioshock or Assassin's Creed takes almost 5Gb of space on your HDD. Look at the prices & capacities on 360 hard drives! Obviously Microsoft is desperately looking for every imaginable possibility to make up for the lack of blu-ray drive on their machine... But this aint the answer.

goodbye gamestop.

Dumb idea. Digital distribution works on pc, because the pc users have good and cheap HD (not a 20gb for 60$) and they know that pc gaming will not die in 2-3 years and evolve into pc gaming 2.0, like it will be the case for the x360 to x720 (if that the name)

Sounds cool, but all I have to say is this: our prayers for avatar outfits have been anwered, so suck it you stupid Wii fanboys!

Well, I imagine it work just like arcade games and xbox originals that you download. You can delete them and re-download them. And if your console breaks and gets sent in and you get a different one returned, when you reattach your hard drive with them already on it, you would just have to re-downlaod the license for the new console to play them.

um im out of space and WILL NOT be purchasing anything more then 1 gb, as I dont have it. And I wont be purchasing a new HD, simply due to my principle beliefs that when I purchased my system, it should've been all I needed. If they don't do something to please this LARGE group of customers, I wont be getting any more MS consoles or systems or Sony because they did the same thing. 40gb,80gb,60gb,20gb,etc

sounds great. but all i am wondering is that when you delete a game, mainly because of lack of storage. Can it be downloaded again?

I hate, just hate e-distribution.

wonderful idea. buying and downloading a 2 year old game for the same cost of buying the disc = awesome. for all those concerned about losing the game when your hard drive crashes - the game download is tied to your user account, and can be downloaded an infinite number of times as long as you still have the account.

While it's nice, it would be better if they could release games in multiple regions at same time. Tired of waiting for the EU releases, we can read english here. Gamers have no real need for the multiple translations, which are often used as excuse for the 1 year+ delays.

amazing!

wow just wow.

this will also effect game shops! such a gamestop and GAME and the rest :\

i think there will to many complications with the game on demands and also why not just buy the disc version???

Given that the 360 has practically no HDD this is going to be a problem. Luckily I have a PS3 and I can get a 500 GB HDD for £80 if I needed it. However, since I have a 60GB PS3 anyway, I don't need too. :)

Call me old fashioned but I would rather have a game disc in case a harddrive crashes or there is a network problem, especially with games you're paying 60-70 dollars for. Plus its always nice to see the collection lined up on the shelf. Good for some though.

I agree that there's now a pretty clear need to allow 360 owners to install larger HDDs to their Xboxes. My 60GB definitely won't cut it, nor do I think the newer 120s will. Between downloaded full games, DLC, movie downloads, etc etc etc....even that 120GB will get filled up real quick...

Why am i having flashbacks of the "sega channel"?