Games On Demand

[Mendon]

After playing a couple games of live "1 vs 100" last night (which I recently just started playing and am quickly becoming addicted to!!), I decided to look around and see if there is anything else I've been missing or ignoring.

 

For the first time, I went into the "Games on Demand" area. Nice selection of titles, and a couple I'd like to either play or re-play. But what is up with the pricing on these titles: $30 for CrackDown??? $30 for Assassins Creed??? $30 for Rainbow Six Vegas???? And on and on.

 

All the games I listed can be bought new for about $20 from most brick & mortar stores and probably even much less used from GameStop or Play & Trade. In fact, the only game I noticed that is priced about the same as the physical copy was Viva Pinata.

 

Games on Demand is a nice idea..... have an urge to play a particular game but don't want to drive to the store? MS to the rescue!!..... but there is no way I'd play/re-play these games at the prices MS is asking, even if it saves me running to the store, when I know I can get a physical copy of the title at a much cheaper price.

 

Anyone know if Games on Demand has become popular and successful?

 

 

Mendon

[Lord Helmet]

I think that games on demand is a great idea, but they should be priced cheaper. I guess you're paying for the convenience of not having to go to the store to buy, or wait for Amazon or someone to ship it to you.

[moycon]

It's funny, i was checking this out recently myself. Never paid much attention to the games on demand mainly because I have a bunch of games on disk i need to play!!!

 

Crackdown is $19.99 on games on demand or it was a few weeks ago.

Me personally I think that game is totally worth even $30, but yeah, it seems to me it's only $20

Along with a bunch of other games I was considering getting (Dead Space, Devil May Cry IV and Trivial Pursuit) All were $19.99 at that time.

 

I did see some that were $29.99 (Too high) but there seemed to be a lot more priced at the $19.99 which I think is fine.

 

Not sure how popular the service is though.

[+HammR25]

They'd have to give me a significant discount to download one of those games.

[Mendon]

It's funny, i was checking this out recently myself. Never paid much attention to the games on demand mainly because I have a bunch of games on disk i need to play!!!

 

Crackdown is $19.99 on games on demand or it was a few weeks ago.

Me personally I think that game is totally worth even $30, but yeah, it seems to me it's only $20

Along with a bunch of other games I was considering getting (Dead Space, Devil May Cry IV and Trivial Pursuit) All were $19.99 at that time.

 

I did see some that were $29.99 (Too high) but there seemed to be a lot more priced at the $19.99 which I think is fine.

 

Not sure how popular the service is though.

 

Yer right... Crackdown is $20. Could have sworn when I was viewing the games that it was listed at $30, but tis my error.

 

 

Mendon