This Week in Downloadable Content 56
Both the Virtual Console and Xbox Live Arcade have some interesting offerings this week, and Microsoft has released word of a lot of new things to come via their community service. The day before yesterday saw the release of Punch-Out!!, Virtua Fighter 2, and Bonk's Revenge for the Wii's download service. No Mike Tyson in this version of Punch-Out!!, but it's still (as Kohler puts it) one of the 'best videogames of all time.' On the Xbox side, today sees the release of a 'double header' of games: Gyruss and 3D Ultra MiniGolf Adventures . Gyruss is a Konami arcade port, while Minigolf includes a course editor to distract you from the simple gameplay. As far as new XBLA content goes: The Daily show is already available on the service, along with The Colbert Report, Carcossonne will join Settlers of Catan and (apparently) Talisman in boardgame-to-Xbox ports, and Microsoft is looking for pitches for a television show to be shown exclusively on Xbox live. If you win the TV contest, you get to make it for them.
Settlers may be cheaper than board counterpart. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Punch-Out without Mike Tyson (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Daily Show and Colbert report at 2 bucks a pop. (Score:3, Insightful)
Sure I'd like consoles themselves to be cheaper, I think $500 for a ps3 as you say "is less than a novelty, its an insult." So I don't buy it. I wish my new house cost half the price. Gas is too high. Cigarette prices keep going up. Coffee from Starbucks is $4. And you're complaining about a downloadable TV show... that you've already seen... on cable... ooooo-kay.
Re:Daily Show and Colbert report at 2 bucks a pop. (Score:2, Insightful)
TV shows should cost about $1/hour. Even if you double that to $2/hour to account for lack of commercials, that still makes the Daily Show two times as expensive. And why can't we have commercials anyway? Even though most people will fast-forward through them, the price of the commercials could at least cover the cost bandwidth. That would make Microsoft's expenses almost zero.
Microsoft needs to do something to bring these costs down. The cost of a single show *cannot* be the same as the cost of an entire cable subscription. That's just ridiculous.