I know this is old news now, but I've been away from the Internet for a little while, and I felt I needed to add my two cents on this topic because it's an interesting one. Microsoft has announced that with the fall dashboard update (coming December 4th) that you will now be able to download full retail verisions of origial Xbox games directly to your hard drive for 1200 points ($15.00). Sounds sweet, right? Well the list of games announced for day one are Fable, Indigo Prophecy, Crimson Skies: High Road To Revenge, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex, Burnout 3, and, of course, Halo: Combat Evolved. Definitely a good list of games. Well I decided to do a little research to see how much you can buy these games at retail for, to see how sweet of a deal this really is. Turns out, it's not. Here is the breakdown, with a label of rather or not downloading it is a good deal or bad deal:
All prices from Amazon
Fable (original not Lost Chapters): used starting at $8.75 and includes bonus DVD (Bad Deal)
Indigo Prophecy: used starting at $5.64 (Bad Deal)
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge: new for $9.99 used starting at $0.98 (Bad Deal)
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex: used starting at $4.99 (Bad Deal)
Burnout 3: new for $19.99, used starting at $2.86 (Good Deal if you buy new, bad if you get used)
Halo: Combat Evolved: new $9.99, used starting at $5.04 (Bad Deal)
As you can see, with these games having no new features, such as achievements or added online play, it is really not a good deal at all. Especially when buying a hard disk copy has re-sale or trade in value. So speak with your wallet and don't purchase these games.
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