Xbox Live Avatar arcade in the works?
- October 07, 2009 11:43 AM PST
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Xbox Live Arcade may move into another dimension, if a recent survey asking about Avatar arcade games turns out to be true.
Your avatar can already try on new clothes, play with a cardboard paper towel roll and even play golf, but if a new consumer survey sent out by Microsoft is to be believed, they'll soon be able to hit up the arcade.
The survey, obtained by Joystiq asks gamers their thoughts on the service, and let's them choose a possible name including " The Game Room," " The Tower of Rom," and "Classics Live."
Microsoft's interest in creating a virtual arcade for avatars is no doubt fueled by the fact that the service's main competitor; Sony's Home has one of it's own. No word yet on exactly what type of games would be accessible in the virtual arcade.
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This seems to be very similar to the concept of watching movies with friend's Avatars via Netflix on Xbox 360. Why watch your Avatar watch movies or play games when you can just do it yourself?
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- Oct 07 2009 at 12:07:17:PM PST
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This seems useless and a lot like Home, which isn't very popular anyway.
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Considerin' how popular & more people use Live compared to Sony's HOME
I could see this doin better than HOME, just leave out the damn House & shit
HOME was a fail period
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htown4life wrote:
Considerin' how popular & more people use Live compared to Sony's HOME
I could see this doin better than HOME, just leave out the damn House & shit
HOME was a fail period
exactly what I thought you'd say. So basically, since live has it, its better. And what does the number of people on each network, have to do with the success of each version? lol doesnt make sense to me.
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So will the arcade game pop up on screen when our avatar goes to it or will be be staring at his back the entire time?
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BRAWLMAN13 wrote:
htown4life wrote:Considerin' how popular & more people use Live compared to Sony's HOME
I could see this doin better than HOME, just leave out the damn House & shit
HOME was a fail periodexactly what I thought you'd say. So basically, since live has it, its better. And what does the number of people on each network, have to do with the success of each version? lol doesnt make sense to me.
u didnt know wtf i was gonna say LMFAO...Live is more popular than HOME
so it would fail much less that HOME...but im sure I would use this as much as I use HOME
6 times a year maybe 10 dependin on how it is when first released, then after that its back
to retail gamin again...
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Already, there is a big fundamental difference between "Home" and this would be "Avatar Arcade". The Marketing. Home was marketed and hyped as an Xbox Live killer. That was a big mistake by Sony as the customer expectation would never be realized. This Avatar Arcade seems to be just something else for XBL members to play with. Nothing more.
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