Some of you might recall an unannounced "Xbox Game Room" from a survey back in October. The basic idea behind the supposed virtual space is that it would allow Xbox 360 owners to access a bunch of retro games presumably varied enough to make it worthwhile with Xbox LIVE Arcade still -- you know -- existing.
There's been a lot of speculation as to whether or not this thing will be blatantly similar to PlayStation Home in terms of walking around with your Avatar and choosing old-school games rather than picking them from a basic menu.
Based on a video interview with Microsoft's Robbie Bach that was quickly pulled from On10.net, we're relatively sure this so-called "Game Room" will be announced at the company's CES keynote which just so happens to be going down at 6:30 PST tonight.
Rest assured, we will be "happily" waiting at our computers for any and all news to come out of the presentation so that you can go off and do fun things instead.
Microsoft To Announce "Xbox Game Room" At CES [Kotaku]
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5:18 PM on 01.06.2010
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I remember a while back someone said "if Apple or Google opened a bakery today, MS would open one up a week later simply because they did." Same seems to apply here to some degree if we go by the info we have.
Microsoft:
Let's get Miis! Let's get Home!
Everything will be a blur next generation!
I am also wondering how much this will cost. No offense but I sure as hell ain't paying more than 160MSP($2y) for a 'classic' game no matter how well you dress it(pac man champ edition)!
After using Home for all of 30mins there really wasn't much other than nightmares of the movie Gamer(if you know what I mean, pity thyself because you watched that wretched garbage as well!) Although the living space they give you is like a poor person's wet dream(penthouse-ish loft, ocean-side).
If the whole thing is free, then it will shut a lot of people up but I don't see this being a Silver thing. Sorry to you folks.
Oh and pedrovay2003: The XBox Live Vision Camera is like an EyeToy, the Game Room would be more like Home's bowling place thingy. Which [Home] is a rip off of Second Life.
If this _is_ basically an Avatar space that is little more than a Virtual Arcade, than I really wouldn't pay more than 40MSP($0.50) for each game. It would make more sense as a package of a bunch of games for a certain total. Although, if the games really are old, oldschool, non-updated games such as centipede and the like, it should be free(ish).