Xbox 360 Arcade Bait-and-Switch [UPDATE: No Bait-and-Switch]
- Scribbled on October 15th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Casual Gaming, Editorial Content, Hardware Mods, Industry News, Microsoft Xbox 360, WTF, Xbox Live Arcade
UPDATE: Engadget got it wrong - the Arcade bundle comes with 5 free full games and a bunch of demos.
One must wonder what Microsoft is doing with the newly announced Xbox 360 Arcade bundle, the new version of the Core system. While it does come with the wireless controller and a nice big 256MB memory card, it does deceive the consumer on one point. While it brags it comes with 5 Arcade titles on a disk - ha, ha, fooled you, they’re just the demos. You know, the things you could download for free. This seems to be a way to forcibly encourage buyers to get an online connection and perhaps a hard drive.
Not good form, Microsoft. Do the right thing and include the full games on disk. Sheesh, are you being cheapskate over Zuma?
(Thanks, Engadget.)
October 15th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Considering Zuma isn’t in the bundle to begin with, I’m gonna go with NO.
I have to guess that there’s 5 trials on top of the five full games.
October 15th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
There’s no full games on the disk. Just the demos.
October 15th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
I’m going to agree with MitchyD, mainly because of this picture:
http://www.engadget.com/gallery/xbox-360-arcade-unboxed/439669/
It includes all of the ones advertised, PLUS free trial games.