I'm not interested in buying any of these off live. All of these games can be found in retail stores or ebay for reasonably low prices. Like I said, Games On Demand services are only useful for games that are out of print and rare enough to be expensive. Like Beautiful Katamari. But these titles on the Games On Demand service are all popular mainstream titles. No niche stuff like that. Even some of the original xbox downloads are a rip off. You can still find a brand new copy of Halo 1 or Fable 1 in stores (like Amazon) for like $10-12.
And even if they discontinue the Pro and sell the 120 GB elite at $300, that's merely a bandaid to the problem. 120 GB isn't enough if you are going to download full 360 games. I have to regularly delete and sometimes re-install games to my 60 GB hard drive. Right now I have six games installed (one is 2 discs). I'll have to delete 1 to make room for another one when I get a new game. I had to delete Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon after I beat them because those games were huge and hogging up a massive chunk of that 60 gigs. If it's already an annoyance to manage space with disc installs, there's no way 120 gb will be enough if you like to download full retail games (Xbox games included). M$ needs to cut down the price of their hard drive accessories and offer a reasonably priced big HDD. This over-priced M$ accessory crap needs to stop. Cut down the wi-fi adapter price too (I've no need for it because ethernet is more reliable but there are many people who need to rely on wi-fi or they may prefer it for convenience sake.)
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