Microsoft details Games on Demand, Avatar Marketplace

At least i wont have to leave my house to pick up a classic anymore :)

Games on Demand sounds great, but this literally kills of the Xbox Originals program, doesn't it?

Nice English ...

what you guy dont seem to realise is microsft is a businces, there here to make money. so for all those who are leavin stupid comments micrsoft is not you frend who is doing this to make you happy there doing this to make MONEY

games on demand sounds awesome!

The games on demand sounds cool but I'd rather have a disc and the avatar thing is sweet (hopefully I can look like a Spartan II, ODST or Sam Fisher/ other Splinter Cells) but $1 for just one item and $4 for one prop ticks me off.

They should give all avatar outfits free to xbox LIVE gold customers or at least just $1 for a pack of clothes rather than just for one. Yah. I copy and pasted.

What!? I'm not gonna pay to put clothes on my avatar! They should have game-specific clothing become unlocked through the game's achievements! If they were smart and not greedy bastards that's what they would do!

They should give all avatar outfits free to xbox LIVE gold customers or at least just $1 for a pack of clothes rather than just for one.

Too bad 360 doesn't let you use externals like ps3 does. And believe me, I hate ps3. One major flaw that Microsoft just let slip away..

The thing I don't like about buying games direct to hard drive is that when I'm done with it, I can't trade it in for store credit...can I delete my games for D/L credit please?

I will get a few avatar clothing for T-Shirts but i say props should be $2 or $3 not $4

If you don't want Avatar clothes then don't buy them, should be an option to have naked avatars for those who wish to show there reluctance. Would make more sence if you could buy them with game points instead, so they were worth more than braggin' rights.

need a bigger hard drive

Gears clothes! I would be excited for the games on demand thing too, but considering that I only have 5GB left I won't be downloading any games.

and if you live in the middle of no-where (like me) and can only get live at a friends house... u cant u ANY dlc :(

Are none of you guys aware that Sony charges for just about every piece of content for your avatar or home space in home? This isn't new. Frankly, I'm surprised that MS gives anything for the avatars away. The best way to voice your approval or dismay, however, is to buy or not buy said content.

We need more hard drive space MS!

money, money, money!!! what are ya'll at microsoft going to do next, charge us to turn our systems on?and by the way; downloading full games to you're hdd is a bad idea because of the amount of space some of us have. how about rental on demand? that way we could rent them before we decide to buy them. but other than that i love the 360!!!

Good concept for the download on demand, but my HD wouldn't be able to hold a full game right now - I can barely save as it is. :P

Hold on... buy clothes for my Avatar? I still need to buy clothes for myself! I guess it will give me something to spend those extra 100 MS points on after buying with a points card

One Time I eated a Butter!

I still need a disc, I wouldn't buy like this. Hope this doesn't turn average. If I could I'd buy XBLA game at a store coming in a disc.

I would rather by a disc at gamestop or something. I just dont like the idea of downloading them. Untrustworthy

Games on Demand sounds great!!!! If my avatar wants a t-shirt let him get a job & buy it himself. Am spending my money on...you guess it Games

Mann... what a rip-off, 1-4$ for a virtual outfit... seriously.....that's very sad..... ...and fanvoys talks about gimmicky huh???

Gears, Fable and Halo gear sounds awesome. People rip on the avatars, but it's fun to make them and at least i can dress mine, unlike the mii's.

And knowing how much of a sucker I am for Fable stuff, I'll probably be getting the costumes. Sad...

I wonder how many people who posted here that are for the avatar outfits are actually women? :P If my wife was a gamer, she would probably be for it too, considering our closet is 90% hers.

"let 360 owners purchase clothing and interactive props for their avatars" I find it a rip off that you buy to buy new clothing and props

I think I'd spend a couple of MS points for a halo helmet for the avatar thing. :P Ideally I would have liked each game played on your machine unlocking a set piece of clothing related from that specific game but thats too much to work in.

I wont buy any of this stuff because I don't support this business model - it's not the way I want gaming to go. If you guys don't like it then please don't support it.

On demand thing sounds pretty cool!!!

Fist of all the first part of what you said is saying that we were saying what they said would happen all along. Now if we were surprised, you might have a point, but I don't think many of us were. Second, just because we do not like an idea doesn't mean we don't have the right to gripe about it. Nobody likes a swindler, but we all sure as heck like calling them on their jerk moves even when we're not falling for it. Third, I totally agree with you about not buying these clothes if we hate the idea so much. I'll say this though, and it really burns my buns, but I'll bet a lot of folks out there really will go for it. I hate that people will openly nickel and dime us and can get away with it, but I hate that people will willingly go for being nickel and dimed even more, which consequently gives credence to shenanigans like these.

can i haz zombie avatar?

I like how everyone on here is saying things like I knew Microsoft would start charging for clothes, when in fact from the start they said they would. Soooooooooo surprise!!!!......Wait no it actually was expected. haha!!! You guys crack me up talking, but not reading or in this case listening to what is happening. If you have a problem with paying for clothing for your avatars, guess what!? don't buy it. Crazy concept huh!!?

I hoped theyd give the option to buy clothing for games that you dont own and for the games you do own have the option to earn the clothes through achievements, Id like to earn my items, but from a buisness POV its not very good

I hope microsoft will make a bigger hdd to the x360, so we don't need to delete and download games again.

And so the Avatar cash grab begins.

Good News............

awesome finally some real downloadable games on consoles. This needs to grow till all new games are available through download like with steam. They are really going to need to release a bigger hdd though. 120gb wont last long.

So I guess these means our chances of, you know, making our OWN clothing instead of wearing advertisements is out of the question? Downloading games sounds OK but it still seems like it would be faster to just pop over to a real store and get the game. Might be good for old classics. What I really want to hear about is this Natal thing!

Games on Demand, yes. Avatar crap, no.

i'm not going to even use one anymore.

whoever buys clothing for their avatars must have no life

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It is starting....the next generation of gaming where you will download all your games. I can see it now. Gamestops not being able to resell games for twice what they paid for them and screwing the developer out of money. I am going to predict that the new game systems that come out will have massive hard drives and you will no longer go to your local game store to purchase that new game you have been waiting to play. Personally I am all for this as there will be chance to lose, damage, or have your games stolen.