Will Full Game Downloads Come To Xbox?
Within an interview with Gamesindustry.biz, Peter Molyneux, creater of Fable, hinted that Xbox 360 owners could soon be seeing full game downloads onto your Xbox.
In the interview, he said “I think it would be a great thing for this studio to work on. I can’t say anything else of it – I would be killed to death”.
At the moment, you can download some games from Xbox Live and the Playstation Network, however, the games that are available are limited to older and games that takes less space.
Although some people may think that this idea is brilliant, the reality will being them out of the clouds.
Currently, if you were to download a full game onto your hard drive, it would steal around 6GB of hard drive space and take a long time to download.
Even though these problems could be worked around, considering the Xbox 360 Elite has a 120GB hard drive, and the ability to download the games overnight, there are still many problems that would beed to be considered.
Firstly, as there would be no second hand games, the second hand market would disppear, and that would lead the prices of new games to not go down in price.
Also, because the games would take up around 6GB each, the hard drives would not last long at all, people would be required to pay the rather large sum of £100 to get the 120GB hard drive, which would still only last around 20 games.
This will all lead to people deleting their older games, they won’t want to buy a new hard drive just for a game, and because of this, many people will become more choosy when buying a game.
Plus, this idea would not work for the arcade systems; it would require all current owners of the console to buy a hard drive and also Microsoft to start supplying hard drives with them, which would drive up the prices.
Although there are several downsides to downloadable games, there is one upside to the idea. Because the games are online, the prices of them may go down as there would be no need for packaging costs.
Overall, I find the idea to be a waste of time. The only real advantage is that don’t have to leave your home, which, if you order online then you don’t have to leave your house anyway, and the post would probably be faster than the download.
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