Xbox Live Marketplace chief interviewed
Gaming bloggers VGM Daily conducted an interview with Aaron Greenberg, the guy in charge of Xbox Live Marketplace at Xbox, and yikes did he have a lot of news to share with them.
The most interesting things to me were discussion of possible plans to rerelease Rare’s N64-based intellectual property like Goldeneye 007 onto Xbox Live Arcade (no it’s not happening), plans to distribute Xbox Live Diamond cards in other markets as well (is it even possible here in Europe where most retailers you’d have to deal with are focused on or even limited to national markets?) and the fact that Microsoft is actually considering to run a free version of Xbox Live Gold in the future where you ‘pay’ by viewing ads.
Interviewer Ryan himself summarized to Xboxic that the complete podcast includes, but is not limited to:
- 50% of users are connected to Xbox Live. And 85% of those connected are downloading content
- More downloads on Live (ten million so far) than iTunes had on launch
- Talk about Cloning Clyde
- How an indie developer gets a game onto Xbox Live Marketplace
- Addresses the criticisms of Blizzard COO Paul Sims and Arena Net Co-Founder Jeff Strain. Explains how the open LSP model allows for MMO’s to easily be on Live
- Over 80 High-Def games available by June
- New big update for Live this Spring
- Partnership with Epic records. High Def music video’s and play the artists of these video’s on Live
- No movies are planned for download onto Live at the moment. A partnership with Paramount on MI III and Nacho Libre is announced (content, and play against Jack Black)
- TV content is a possibility in the future
- New information about the Direct TV partnership is coming soon
- Comments on Wi-Fi and HUB
- Xbox Live Marketplace is going to see its own major “virtual console-like” announcement at E3, and it’ll be rolled out BEFORE Nintendo’s Revolution even hits the market.
- Plans to bring Rare’s Goldeneye 007 to Xbox Live Marketplace
- Advertising on Marketplace and in games
- It’s possible some day gamers could see an ad enabled free (and full) version of Xbox Live
- Diamond card IS coming to other markets
- Xbox Live @ E3
Listen to the full interview at VGM Daily, they were even nice enough to include a full minute-by-minute program for skipping to the interesting parts.
Plans to bring Rare’s Goldeneye 007 to Xbox Live Marketplace
My apologies I also picked up that part wrongly at first myself: Aaron says the Marketplace is mainly fit for either unique property or “the emulation crowd” where 8- and 16-bit games like Nintendo is doing and Midway with Joust and Gauntlet on XBLA is so much easier to do than the later 32- or 64-bit games.
So Rare did bring all their licenses with them, but don’t expect them on XBLA anywhere soon.
GoldenEye wouldn’t be allowed to be put up unless M$ paid EA to use the Bond License, that’s the whole reason for PD Ninty were out bid by EA for the rights to bond after the success of Goldeneye
Whats a vitual console like thing? What does it meen?
nintendos virtual console is said to emulate past nintend consoles virtually to were u could have every zelda game playable on the revo. its also rumored to offer genesis and turnbo grfx 16 games. now that he mentioned xbl having its own virtual console to be announced at e3 a few rumors have popped up saying this is either the sega (dreamcast genesis saturn) console library or the xbox 1 library. giving the download restraints id go with them brining sega back. i think some xbox 1 titles would be too much download and keep on the memory unit like they want them too. just my 2 cents but most rumors say its sega is going to bring all its games over or at least the dreamcast titles.
Great interview. It’s full of good information. Sounds like this E3 is gonna be huge for Xbox 360. There is so much in development that no one is willing to talk about yet. Only a month away!
[…] Xbox Live Marketplace honcho Aaron Greenberg talks to VGM about a variety of topics ranging from Goldeneye 007 on XBLA (not happening) to the Euro Diamond Card (happening). Xboxic has a helpful summary of the discussed topics: […]
Why do people do this? ^^^^^
Blog software does it automatically. A “Pingback” notifies one site that it has been quoted on another site, it’s sort of a thank-you-for-the-info card
Can’t wait for May!
[…] The podcast VGM Daily conducted an interview with the head Xbox Live Marketplace, Aaron Greenberg. The interview includes some interesting topics like Goldeneye, MMO games on Xbox Live, a partnership with Paramount, etc. Xboxic has a great summary of that the podcast includes. Here is what they listed: […]
What they need to do is put a web browser on the 360, that everyone can use, not just the people that can afford to buy a new computer just for the stupid windows media center software!!!
come on, someone back me up on this, cause if we all ask for it, u never know, they might put an update or something….
I think that would just be nice for people with hd.
browsing the net with pal or ntsc resoultion would be kinda silly
but i agree with you, the feature would be nice. hell, i can even go online with my psp
nice!…
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