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Xbox Live Arcade Retail Surprise

Encouraged by the success of Live Arcade, Microsoft is planning to bring some of its downloadable games to retail.

Xbox chief Peter Moore is pushing to extend the Live Arcade brands to retail, arguing internally that original games like Geometry Wars, retro hits like Smash TV and casual games like Hardwood Hearts will extend Xbox 360's appeal to non-hardcore audiences.

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Published: 1369 days 11 hours ago | News | Xbox 360 | Gaming | Industry News

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bernie - 1369 days 14 hours ago

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1 - Cool.

£5.00 pocket money & Stocking filler titles, like the good old £1.99 games from Mastertronic!

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SjaakHaas - 1369 days 10 hours ago

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i think it encourages more people to buy these. Now you can see the accual prices right in the shops. And it's very attractive for shopholders to display cheap 360 titles.

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FreeMonk - 1369 days 10 hours ago

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Not a bad idea at all. I know a few people who haven't got access to live, and miss out on loads of cool little Arcade games like Outpost Kaloki X, Geometry Wars 2, Smash TV etc. Also Uno,which is a great party game with 4 people in the same room!

Good going Peter, but make sure Street Fighter 2 is available first eh!

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ArchChef - 1369 days 6 hours ago

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You can't play same TV multiplayer uno. Simply because you would be able to see all the other players card!

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THELANDSOFSAND - 1369 days 10 hours ago

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hey, this is cool!

though i think i'll still download them.

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Marriot VP - 1369 days 7 hours ago

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Great, XBL exposure and more enticement to buy a 360.

The biggest problem in people buying a PS3 is ignorance. They simply don't know the better side of gaming.

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G_CodeMonkey - 1369 days 6 hours ago

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The hardcore will buy the PS3 no matter what, though I believe this is a small percentage (Japan excepted). On price and quality, you really can't argue against the 360--especially if they do the rumored price drop right. I bought mine (first one) a couple months after it came out and my entire family loves it-- I just bought Moto GP and College Hoops today, which brings my game totals up to about 10 (with 3 XBOX titles), not counting Arcade titles. It really is a great machine (I now have two--one in the exercise room, one in the living room on the big screen -- if you haven't experienced it in big screen HD, you're missing out). I say this because I was rabidly anti-M$ (still don't "love" their biz practices with Windows), but they make a great game console.

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Marriot VP - 1369 days 5 hours ago

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of course people will still buy a PS3. It's the in betweens that MS will pick up this round. Price and games.

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golden_cannon - 1369 days 5 hours ago

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On G4 about a month ago they reported that 70% of japanese gamers want a Wii alone and 85% think the PS3 is too expensive. Like I said in one of my previous posts, this would mean BIG trouble for Sony and even worse for Microsoft. I don't know if this will help Microsoft in Japan.

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haloalldaylo - 1369 days 1 hour ago

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Why would people vote this lame?? Not everyone has XBOX LIVE.

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