http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/ Engadget Comments for First 21 Xbox 'Games on Demand' titles revealed http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/
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.]]>Aug 5th 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/"Remember when you had to go to HMV/Game/Gamespot to buy games..."

Or whatever equivalents you want to throw in. ]]>Aug 5th 2009 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/
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. ]]>Aug 5th 2009 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 6th 2009 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/
I'm not buying any full version games until I hear the answer from MS.]]>Aug 5th 2009 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/
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. ]]>Aug 5th 2009 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/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.]]>Aug 6th 2009 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/
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. ]]>Aug 5th 2009 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/
The XBOX originals were a fiasco for us caribean XBOX fans who couldn't buy even 1 title.]]>Aug 5th 2009 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/Aug 5th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/first-21-xbox-games-on-demand-titles-revealed/
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Susan

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