Will Full Game Downloads Come To Xbox Live?

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

Within the interview, Peter 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 available are limited to older titles and ones that take up less hard drive space.

Although some people may think that this is some sort of heaven, the idea of being able to download the latest games without having to leave the four walls of your home, the reality will bring you back down to Earth.
At the moment, if you were to download a full Xbox game onto your hard drive, it would steal around 6GB of space and take a very long 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, the second hand market would go down, as there would be no second hand games, the prices would not go down.
Also, because the games would take around 6GB of space each, the hard drive space would be drained quickly, with a 120GB hard drive only taking around 20 games with a rather large price tag of £100, many people will not like to dish out their dosh.
This will all lead to people deleting their games, many people won’t want to buy a new hard drive when it comes to getting a new game, and because of that, they will become more choosy when it comes to buying a game.

Also, the idea would not work for the arcade systems which don’t have a hard drive included.

Although there are several downsides, there is one upside. 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 rather pointless. The only major advantage is that you don’t have to leave your home, but if you order online, you don’t have to do that anyway.

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