Games For Sail

Within an interview with Gamesindustry.biz, Peter Molyneux, maker of the Fable games, hinted that Xbox 360 owners could soon see full game downloads coming to Xbox Live.

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 as they wouldn’t have to leave their house, the reality of it would bring them out of the clouds.
At the moment, if you were able to download a full game onto your hard drive, it would drain around 6GB of space and take a long tiresome wait time to download.

Although these problems could be worked around, considering the Elite Xbox has a 120GB hard drive, also, the option to download the games over night, however, there are still problems that need 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 a game would take around 6GB of hard drive space, many people would be required to buy the £100, 120GB hard drive, which still will only hold 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, the idea would not work for the arcade systems which have no hard drives.

Even though there are many downsides to full game downloads, there is one upside to the idea. Because the game would be online, the prices of them may go down as there would be no costs for packaging.

Overall, I thought the idea to be rather pointless. The only major advantage is that you don’t have to go out and find that the shop has sold out, but if you pre-order your games online anyway, you get one delivered to your house.

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