XBOX / PC Live Arcade

ebissler

Member
Joined
Sep 23, 2008
Messages
214
Reaction score
1
Location
Anna, Texas
Depends on how this is actually executed, but the concept sounds fun. A virtual Arcade you build with the games you buy ($3-$5 by the looks of it). Or you can play a game for 40 MS points ~$0.50. Won't replace the actual machines, but could be cool: there is a video in the link at the bottom.

From Kotaku.com:

Although its cover was blown a little early, there's still new info coming out of the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas concerning Microsoft's Xbox Game Room.

Microsoft's press release concerning the new Xbox Live service says the Game Room will be a "place to relive the glory days of arcade games", and over the next three years will see the release of "over 1000" retro titles. It'll also serve as a kind of "mini Home" for your 360 avatars, as each user will get their own arcade area that can be customised and, no doubt, upgraded (for the right price).

Interestingly, the Game Room will carry a two-tiered price structure. You can buy a game for between 240-400 Microsoft Points, or if you really want that old arcade feeling, you can pay 40 Microsoft Points and play the game once, like it was 1985 and you'd just dropped a quarter. Only, now it's two quarters.

It'll be out in the "Spring", and from here on we'll stop calling it "Xbox Game Room", as it'll be available for the PC as well.



http://kotaku.com/5442198/xbox-game-room-to-feature-over-1000-classic-arcade-games
 
Back
Top Bottom