First 21 Xbox 'Games on Demand' titles revealed
By Laura June 
posted August 5th 2009 1:20PM
posted August 5th 2009 1:20PM
Update: A Microsoft spokesman just emailed us a list of the Games on Demand titles for the US, which has a couple of notable differences. BioShock, Ridge Racer 6, Karaoke Revolution American Idol, Dance Dance Revolution Universe, and Sonic The Hedgehog are in, while SEGA Rally and Tomb Raider: Legend are decidedly Europe-only for now. Full US list after the break.
[Via Joystiq]
- Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft)
- LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (LucasArts)
- Rainbow Six Vegas (Ubisoft)
- BioShock (2K Games)
- Mass Effect (Microsoft Game Studios)
- Ridge Racer 6 (Namco)
- Burnout Paradise (EA)
- Meet The Robinsons (Disney)
- Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis (Rockstar Games)
- Call of Duty® 2 (Activision)
- MX vs. ATV Untamed (THQ)
- Sonic the Hedgehog (SEGA)
- Dance Dance Revolution Universe (Konami)
- Need for Speed Carbon (EA)
- Test Drive: Unlimited (Atari)
- Fight Night Round 3 (EA)
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted (EA)
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2K Games/Bethesda Softworks)
- Kameo: Elements of Power (Microsoft Game Studios)
- Perfect Dark Zero (Microsoft Game Studios)
- Viva Piñata (Microsoft Game Studios)
- Karaoke Revolution American Idol Encore (Konami)
- Prey (2K Games)
- Viva Piñata 2: Trouble in Paradise (Microsoft Game Studios)
Is probably cheaper or about the same price buy those game in used, many of those title are old.
So Will these be the new Smaller copies ? or the 6 GB or so ones .. if they can get them to the new smaller load size .. Whoa .. (120 GB HD can fill up Quick)
they arent making new smaller copies. the new installer strips out duplicate and empty data, thus reducing the size of the installed game.
That's what i was getting at but I'm special : )
If I were to buy one of these titles, I would definitely be going to store and get the nifty case, manual, poster, etc. It doesn't make any sense to charge the same price online when there is less (read: none) manufacturing costs.
On the note of downloading games, however: Hey Microsoft! How about when we buy a physical game you let us register it with Live? Then if something happens to the disc, we can download a copy to our harddrive? Just a suggestion.
Only way that would work would be if they started putting registration keys in the games. They wouldn't want people selling their games and downloading a copy. And I, for one, do not want registration keys in my console games.
They would lose their shirts, shorts and shoe if they did...
Laziness breeds inovation.
Too right it does. A phrase to practice for 2014:
"Remember when you had to go to HMV/Game/Gamespot to buy games..."
Or whatever equivalents you want to throw in.
most these games are platinum releases or only available used, figures that they would recycle old ones. i would be shocked if new games released into this program
I wouldn't. Selling new games digitally helps kill off the used game sales.
microsoft. do me a favor and replace game number five with sonic unleashed or something. bad times for me, man... bad times...
lol I was just ranting about the same thing...
The OLD Sonic? Why? At least Sonic Unleashed is somewhat playable but the original Sonic on the 360 was a disaster. I hope they have "Sales" on these games once in a while because most of these can be had for cheaper at retail.
Yeaaaa! Platform tech that promotes gaming “arrested development”! Lets all celebrate so that we convince the suits at the gaming dev houses that we don’t need no stinking near reality, immersive, expansive, 40gb+, AWESOME, 4th gen IPs!
It would be cool if there was some way to prove that you bought the game already so you could download it and play it. It would be different than installing because you wouldn't need your disc.
Do we really need 2 Viva Pinata games?
maybe after this update I can download a game from the disc I've bought to my xbox360s hard drive and not need the disc in the drive to play it.
The convenience if having them on your hard drive is nice, but downloading 6-8 gigs a pop is a bit much. I do have a pretty fast line, 20megs down.. but still these are BIG.
Also, that drive will fill up fast. Alsot MS does NOT let you add or change the drive with a standard 1.8 or 2.5.. this will fill up real fast.
I was thinking the same thing, so hopefully this means we will be seeing an announcement of a new larger hard drive soon, unfortunately probably not reasonably priced, but larger.
Will my purchases carry over to my next XBOX?
I'm not buying any full version games until I hear the answer from MS.
I assume it would work the same way as XBox Live Arcade titles, which are tied to both the original 360 that was used to buy them, and the XBox Live account. That way, if you want to play the games on a different machine you can either sign into your account, or transfer them over to the new machine (once a year, as is the case with XBLA games) so you can play them offline.
very true. Does Microcock keep some sort of record of what games I've purchased so if my xbox360 goes caput or the hard drive explodes I can download my games again with no charge?
So, basically the list is all the games I have already beat.... with the exception of sonic.
Everyone should bow down to your gaming prowess.
I already own a copy of Mass Effect, but I play it so much that I will be re-buying it through this service, and trading my copy on Goozex. That way I keep something else in the tray, while still retaining the ability to have sex with aliens without even switching discs. I'm so lazy.
So they're going to charge $20 (based on the video, at least for Lego Star Wars) for a game I can get used for at the very least $5 less and conserve the space on my 20GB drive. I'll be passing on this unless they can get those prices into the $10 range.
These games are old for one reason:
Because people would bitch and moan about buying $60 games online.
MS can't sell games for much cheaper than retail without REALLY pissing off their big retail partners.
So they start with old games that are already discounted at retail, get people used to the idea, then eventually we might see brand new games.. perhaps at $55 or some amount not dramatically lower than retail, but most likely at $60 equal to retail.
In reality MOST of the "cost" of a retail game is the middle man retail markup; producing a DVD disk and packaging/shipping is VERY cheap, probably comparable to maintaining the servers and the bandwidth cost of people downloading hundreds of thousands or millions of 6gb or so files.
>In reality MOST of the "cost" of a retail game is the middle man retail markup
I doubt this heavily.
The reason is, if this were true you'd see new games selling for a lot less because competition would drive the prices down to a razor thin margin.
I bet the margin is already razor thin even with the price at $60.
Well I meant the cost "difference" that could be had.
They are sold to retailers at a high cost already. Probably close to $50.
I didn't explain myself well..my point is that $10 is SIGNIFICANTLY higher than the cost "savings" of (packaging/shipping - cost of offering it digitally.) Which is probably only a few dollars.
So my point was, they have probably $8 to budge on to make the same amount of money, and they can't really do that because it would piss off the retail chains.
Anyone know if the games will be available worldwide?
The XBOX originals were a fiasco for us caribean XBOX fans who couldn't buy even 1 title.
I was watching the preview for the 'games on demand' on the new xbox live and it showed the price for Mass Effect at 1800 silly MS points.
Digital download is the future. If microsoft was smart, theyd price it low to compete with blu-ray cuz right now seems like it isnt worth owning a downloaded content as oppose to the real disc. Think Apple, the songs cost 99 cents compared to a whole album or single cd's.
The problem with "priced similarly to physical games" is that no digital download service comes anywhere close. Selling a game on digital for MSRP when the physical copy can be 60% of that brand new and lower again for second hand is not similar at all.
This is a nice touch to the 360, but I won't be using it. My internet connection is so slow that I can only just stream YouTube videos without them stopping, and that's not in HQ or HD. Because of this, the GoD service will take too long to even try to use. (It took me nearly 6 days o download the Matrix in 720p).
Also a reason why I couldn't use the Netflix streaming thing, if I lived in the US.
I expected the Sega Channel Remixed, this is not it my friends.
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Some of these games are like 2-3 years old. And why in the hell would they put Sonic 06' on there. Well, at least that's the only bad game on the list. So far.....