Post by: UncleBob on July 19, 2005, 01:14:48 PM
From GamePRO #204, Page 24
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A Real Arcade...
Coming Soon to a Living Room Near You
Of those of you who own an Xbox right now, how many use Live Arcade? Anyone? Bueller? Yeah, I thought so. You have to buy a hard-to-find disc to even access Live Arcade and then you have to play between $10 and $20 to play some rinky-dink game like Dig Dug. Yawn. That's all about to change, though: The Xbox 360 will have Live Arcade integrated right into the box, and it will pop up on the home page of the dashboard; hit a button, and you're in like Flynn. You don't even need a Live account... or a credit card to browse, buy, and play freely. But will there be anything worth playing? We're breathless with anticipation. We got the inside scoop from Greg Canessa, group manager of Xbox Casual Games, who says that while the lineup hasn't been offically set in stone yet, there will be a wide variety of titles and styles, from quirky independents to big names to spiffed-up retro classics from consoles of a bygone era. The Atari 2600, Turbo Grafix, Sega Saturn... even the Dreamcast were mentioned. Dare we dream? Next-gen Live Arcade sounds like the real thing.
So we're left wondering, does this blow our chances for SEGA games out the window? NiGHTs on the 360 anyone?
Post by: Ian Sane on July 19, 2005, 01:26:11 PM
MS can "copy" Nintendo's download idea but they lack the games to pull it off as well. The only way I could see this beating the Rev download service is if the Rev is REALLY weird and thus no one buys it or Nintendo charges a ridiculously high price for downloads. MS would have to rely on Nintendo screwing up a can't miss idea to gain an advantage here.
But then that's how Sony became the market leader so maybe it's not such a bad plan.
Post by: KnowsNothing on July 19, 2005, 02:48:09 PM
It's being put out by the Turner group (owners of CNN, TBS, Cartonn Network, Sports Illustrated, etc). It's going to be a flat monthly rate for unlimited game downloads from past to current gens.
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Turner's strategy is to create an online subscription service scheduled for launch this year. Called GameTap, the service will be presented as if it was a television cable channel — with original programming centered on game news and including reviews and talk shows hosted by "game jockeys."
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Subscribers, who pay a monthly fee of $10 to $20, would have access to an unlimited number of games streamed to their computers via a broadband connection. Turner, which bought licenses to distribute 1,000 titles from 17 game publishers, will start with a slate of 300 games, adding five to 10 titles a week.
But the games won't be the latest installment of "Doom" or "Half Life." Instead, they'll be previously released games such as "Pac-Man," "Tony Hawk's Pro-Skater 2," "Sonic 3" and "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory."
Post by: ShyGuy on July 19, 2005, 03:03:10 PM
Post by: MrMojoRising on July 19, 2005, 03:15:25 PM
Post by: nickmitch on July 19, 2005, 04:00:12 PM
But that MS download thing kinda sucks. I wonder if Sony will do anything like this?
Post by: Artimus on July 19, 2005, 04:07:00 PM
Post by: Galford on July 19, 2005, 08:47:11 PM
Sony and Nintendo are just beginning to catch up to this.
Post by: KDR_11k on July 19, 2005, 10:15:58 PM
Post by: kirby_killer_dedede on July 20, 2005, 03:03:56 AM
Post by: Spak-Spang on July 20, 2005, 04:31:15 AM
There are several arcade games that Microsoft COULD get, however most of those arcade games were also released on the NES and SNES systems so I could see the companies supporting both. Obviously, the arcade games that used franchises like the Turtles or Simpsons will be harder to get.
All in all, I really doubt this thing will hurt Nintendo, and if Sega does in fact bed Microsoft instead of Nintendo, they are being foolish. Revolution will attract more retro gamers that would be more likely to buy their games.
As for Sony doing this with their library....like I said with the DS games. I am not willing to wait for a CD length game to be downloaded to play.
Post by: stevey on July 20, 2005, 05:27:45 AM
Post by: Spak-Spang on July 20, 2005, 06:47:04 AM
Post by: Draygaia on July 20, 2005, 06:50:47 AM
Post by: stevey on July 20, 2005, 10:12:20 AM
So, I don't know about you but hear cable broadband is 5MBs so that just 1 min unless I'm retarded and can't do math right.
Post by: Ian Sane on July 20, 2005, 10:19:22 AM
Neo-Geo games are 100 megaBIT shockers, not megabyte. They're like really huge SNES games. They're not very big at all.
Post by: IceCold on July 20, 2005, 10:31:55 AM
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Originally posted by: Spak-Spang
As for Sony doing this with their library....like I said with the DS games. I am not willing to wait for a CD length game to be downloaded to play.
Eh? The PS3 is already backwards compatible with both the PS2 and the PSX, downloading isn't necessary.
Post by: Spak-Spang on July 20, 2005, 11:27:33 AM
I really hate computer lingo, because its all too similar to eachother.
IceCold: Is PS3 compatiable with PSone games? I didn't know that. I figured PS2 was a given but not PSone
Post by: stevey on July 20, 2005, 03:32:03 PM
I know you reading this forum reggie
so make it happen it will cut the cost of downloading game by a large % so do it!
Post by: darknight06 on July 20, 2005, 03:58:48 PM
Post by: IceCold on July 20, 2005, 09:47:55 PM
Post by: Grant10k on July 21, 2005, 04:09:18 PM
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Originally posted by: stevey
I'm wounding if the revolution could use bit torrent to downlaod? It could make downloading cd super fast and if it could than why not?
I know you reading this forum reggie
Bit Torrent is only faster when you are downloading from someone who would otherwise have a limited bandwidth and a lot of peers (they have a slow connection, and a ton of people want the file). I would imagine that Nintendo would be able to afford a VERY fast connection, and would be able to send data faster than you would be able to receive it. Besides, if it were a torrent than it would require the gamer to upload the game he just bought to other people, which is just silly.
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"Stevey: SNK? Once again you are asking to download 300meg games? Ok...some are only 150megs, but still"
So, I don't know about you but hear cable broadband is 5MBs so that just 1 min unless I'm retarded and can't do math right.
150,000,000 [150megs] divided by 625,000 [5 Megabits per second] gives me 240 seconds...4 minutes at a very generous and steady 5megabits.
Post by: nickmitch on July 21, 2005, 05:10:15 PM
Post by: KDR_11k on July 22, 2005, 04:21:15 AM
Post by: Grant10k on July 22, 2005, 12:08:30 PM
Post by: stevey on July 22, 2005, 01:41:48 PM
yes they were on cart but they cost 300 a pop and the was the neo geo cd but that bomed from the one speed cd games(ps1 was two speed)
Post by: UncleBob on July 26, 2005, 12:05:00 AM
Post by: Spak-Spang on July 26, 2005, 08:27:30 AM
Post by: KDR_11k on July 26, 2005, 10:52:31 AM
Post by: stevey on July 26, 2005, 02:30:00 PM
Dont you know there going to do eveything but video game ie...super computer...cook...fake money making...and a sex bot.
Post by: nickmitch on July 26, 2005, 04:30:34 PM
