Microsoft Announces "Game Room," Confirms Natal For Late 2010 120
Microsoft has confirmed that their upcoming motion-control system, Natal, will be released during the 2010 holiday season. The announcement was made during CES, alongside news of "Game Room," a service that will act like a virtual arcade, bringing classic games to users of the Xbox 360 and Games for Windows Live. It's due out this spring with 30 games to start, and will gradually ramp up to over a thousand titles. According to Kotaku, "You can buy a game for between 240-400 Microsoft Points, or if you really want that old arcade feeling, you can pay 40 Microsoft Points and play the game once, like it was 1985 and you'd just dropped a quarter." Another interesting bit of news is that subscribers to AT&T's U-Verse will soon be able to use the Xbox 360 as their set-top box.
Or Just install MAME on your computer (Score:5, Informative)
...and play all those classics for free...
Re:I liked it when it was called Virtual Console (Score:3, Informative)
How exactly did MS copy anything Nintendo did? MS Control system is camera based Nintendo is Gyro based. MS has been doing the Live arcade since before the Wii even was released in the US
Re:Credit suck (Score:4, Informative)
We know we're paying stupid money. But...
Amazon USA: 4000 points = $44.99 (£28.30) = $1.12 per 100 points
Amazon UK: 4200 points = £49.33 ($78.43) = $1.87 per 100 points
Ebay USA: 4000 points = $48.99 (£30.81) = $1.22 per 100 points
Ebay UK: 4200 points = £34.99 ($55.63) = $1.32 per 100 points
...no one pays full-whack for points. Ebay is kings for points in the UK and they're normally emailed as scanned jpegs within 5 minutes of payment.
Re:A quarter? (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/07/xbox-game-room-pricing-partners-detailed/ [joystiq.com]