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Microsoft To Offer Xbox 1 Games For Download, Celebrates Live Anniversary
Joystiq is reporting that Microsoft's Xbox Live service will be offering some great party favors soon, as the company celebrates the service's second birthday. Starting at 12:01 a.m. EST on November 15th, and lasting for 48 hours, users will be able to download the most-excellent board game Carcassonne for free. They've also announced their intent to allow us to download original Xbox titles to the 360 console. "In its press release, Microsoft explicitly named Halo, Psychonauts, Crimson Skies and Fable as titles for the Xbox Originals initiative, but did not confirm exactly which games will serve as the jumpoff: 'This new service will launch with an array of blockbuster titles spanning the most popular genres from action-adventure to classic role-playing games.' Third-party reports claim the preliminary lineup will also include ... Indigo Prophecy ... Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex and Burnout 3."
Funny did't the Wii do this when it was originally released? Maybe Microsoft has found out that customers like the old games, and the new games. Will the games cost money? Can they be backed up to an eternal hard drive like the Wii (flash card)?
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Uh, Carcassonne is not a great board game. If you had a "hand" of available tiles to play, it would be a lot more fun, but when you have to draw and play a tile in the same round, and there's often only one possible play... then it's not really that great a game.
The Xbox game library Microsoft created over the miserable four years before they took the system out back behind the Redmond campus and put a mercy bullet between the 5 billion dollar console market failure's eyes...
The Xbox game library that even Microsoft themselves considered not even worth trying to implement backwards compatibility for until their marketing types decided they needed another bullet point for the underpowered and underfeatured Xbox 360...
The Xbox game library that has better and patched up PC versions of almost every major game worth playing...
Is coming to the 360 as downloads?
LOL!
A worthless joke of an event like Xbox game downloads is fitting for an online service that has the dubious claim to fame of charging gamers 50 dollars a year for laggy P2P network gaming. It's like Microsoft is proud of the fact that they have gotten a couple million diehard Xbox fans to pay them money every year to take away the standard free dedicated servers pc gamers have enjoyed for years.
LOL! Microsoft, no wonder they are shedding their first party developers and will most likely be getting out of the console biz...