to be honest im 100 percent against this personally

why buy games i cant sell later? why buy games dependant on a disc drive and service i pay 50 a year for?

its a mistake for me, looking at my 40 arcade games. the money i spent, and no way to get any back on the games im done. just not practical. if next box is download only i wont even buy it.

this is a great thing dont get me wrong, but theres otherways that this will be way more pricey for people. espescially looking at how xbl never drops prices on ANYTHING really.

I don't have any interest in downloading full games, the issue of having to change discs is minor, and I like owning the physical content

Anyway, they really need to cut the prices of the hard drives, they are just complete and utter rip offs at the moment

I can understand where your coming from, but I personally have almost every game i've ever bought (some went into game heaven), and i'm not even a game collector.  There is no real reason, other than collectors, to stick with physical media.  Games should cost less to ship and thus cost less to buy.  More actual games will be sold because no one is buying used games thus they should cost less to buy.

On the portable side its even better since you won't have to carry a bunch of your games in your pocket.

In the end though im pretty sure both digital and physical will sell together even next generation, ill probably just never buy a phyisical game at that point.

1 TB, plz.

Yes, I do see many advantages to downloads. Especially for LAN parties. I would no longer need to bring my games, just my 360 because all the games would be on it

There will always be some who are favorable of physical copies and want to resell the games, but there are also many who don't resell their games, or only resell a few.

For me, I only resell the single player games (RPGs for example) after I've played and beat them because I don't have the time anymore to replay them a lot. The games with good multiplayer (CoD, Halo, Gears, etc.) I keep and these are the types of games I would likely download.

MS will certainly adjust what HDD are available before the fall hits. This is simply to keep profit margins up. They wont want to spend a premium to have a manufacturer make smaller drives when they can purchase stock larger drives for less.

i just hope the pricing has more to do with steam and real world pricing, then say how it is now.

most of their og xbox games are 15 bucks, which is more than they are in the real world (5$ to 10$).  all the money theyve made off the og games right now, they woulda made ten times as much if they just tossed ALL the games on at 5 bucks a pop.

also the video prices in canada are mental, clocking in at 7 buckish, which is not even as much as the movies used are, let alone rented at a store.

with good pricing im down for online buying.

is it that hard to buy Xbox Live Starter Pack? you get 3month Gold subscription, 60GB HDD, headset and ethernet cable for 100$.

Hopefully they'll have reduced pricing. Like with digital download services that sell games for $10 or so less than a retail box. I think that would make it worthwhile.

And I would anticipate that prices on these games would go down, especially from their initial cost. (Xbox live pricing not going down makes sense however. If someone is unwilling to pay $5 for a game, they don't want the game.)

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not so much on the low priced stuff. but some of the higher priced 20 dollar stuff thats been that way for ever, and is nowhere on the charts.