Peter Molyneux, Lionhead head honcho, recently told gamesindustry.biz that Fable II could possibly become a digital download on the Xbox 360. He said that it would be “a great thing for [Lionhead] to work on,” but refused to toss out any specifics as to how it could go down. When pressured for more information, he said if he talked about it more he “would be killed to death.”
If Fable II were released digitally before the Xbox 720, it would be the first full Xbox 360 game offered on Xbox Live Marketplace. Currently Microsoft only offers original Xbox titles on the Xbox Originals tab for download. Molyneux said that the original Fable, which is one of the four titles being offered on the Xbox Originals service, has performed “really, really well” and cited that it “was one of the highest selling, if not the highest selling [titles].”
Molyneux is somewhat notorious for letting the cat out of the bag, but this is a pretty big cat. If Microsoft begins to offer full, current games, it will take one of the few advantages that Sony’s PSN has over Xbox Live. In many ways, full downloads seem like a natural progression for the Marketplace. We’ll have to wait and see how this unfolds.
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1:10 PM on 12.10.2008
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Also, killed to death = new Internet catch phrase.
Though, I have to say a school friend of mine use to say this all the time. He was a little strange and would ask "what would you do if I killed you...to death?" totally forgot about that until I read PM's quote.
I am excited to see companies try to force digital downloads down the throats of an uninterested global community, though. We are years and years away from replacing physical media.
mgs4 won a few good ones and it didn't need any fix patch for the main game.
And, I've managed to enjoy the game without coming across the single player bugs. I don't think I ever would have bothered to give my wife a ring, even if I didn't know about that bug . . .
I'd be interested in lots more content by download ( can I get a full year of DLC episodes?!) than purchasing the game for full Run-from-HD convenience.
I'd also probably impulse buy 5 times as many games. How many times do you see people on your friends list playing games you don't have and you'd like to join them but its late at night and you can't be bothered to spend an hour going to a 24 hour videogame store.
Thank you for reminding me that there is one segment of the population who will love these types of innovations- agoraphobics!