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Xbox Live Arcade Details Emerge

Posted by Zonk on from the classic-games-on-next-gen-consoles dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CNN/Money's latest Game Over column spills the beans on Xbox Live Arcade (previously mentioned on Slashdot), Microsoft's forthcoming effort to attract more casual gamers to its console. The feature, which will offer classic arcade games and popular online fare like Bejeweled, will launch Nov. 3, but as the column points out, it will have a very small line-up of titles and will charge rather high fees to purchase them."

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  1. Re:Seems Pointless by LordNimon · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It seems like this is a pretty pointless offer from microsoft. If you think about it, in order to play these games, you need to make the original hardware investment of $150, then you need to have Xbox Live, another $50/year (I think), and you have to pay for each game?

    Obviously, this is for people who already have an Xbox and Xbox Live, and want to play these games as well, without having to use their PC or purchase another console.

    I would buy this. I have an Xbox with a Live account, and my wife is eagerly looking forward to Xbox Live Arcade, so that I'm not the only one playing Xbox games.

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