Game Room
Game » consists of 6 releases. Released Mar 24, 2010
A downloadable portal for official emulation of retro video games for the Xbox 360 and PC, featuring offerings from the Atari 2600 and Intellivision as well as early arcade games by Atari and Konami.
No new Game Room releases today (28th)?
I wonder how many people have already totally forgotten about Gameroom because of this delay that might not have if they had really pushed it from day one.
This could end up being a big mistake, a missed opportunity, and the premature death of Gameroom.
We'll see.
Microsoft really have royally fucked up this launch!
How do they ever expect Gameroom to gather any kind of momentum with all these delays?
It seems that not happy with completely fucking up the initial launch of the thing with bugs and a month delay. They're also looking to destroy what little community they'd got around the thing, with even more delays and very little communication on their part to let us know what on earth is going on.
But the PS3 is able to develop new games. Game Room is working entirely with a slate of antediluvian, extremely archaic, and frankly mostly bad games. The only real advantage they have is the integrated community features and availability. And those only make sense if there are a lot of titles or a lot of people are involved.
As someone who has kinda gotten into game room, this has bummed me out. Microsoft has royaly screwed up this service. How hard could it be to add additional games? How did they not have a shit-ton lined up at launch, ready to go every week? It's like they don't care if it's a success or not. They don't even use the news section in the program to announce when stuff will be coming out or if there will be delays.
I dunno.
I can't believe I'm getting worked up over a bunch of old games that I could get for free.
I think it's fair to get worked up. Business acting stupid for no good reason makes me mad. Noboby I know can think of a good reason for the way they've handled Game Room. Maybe they have some crazy reason why they couldn't put them out. Legal issues makes some sense, but even then, how does it fall apart on the last day? I don't care that I have to wait indefinitely to decide I don't actually want to pay money for Pitfall! I care that Microsoft has a huge pile of potential money they are pissing away by not releasing games.
I'm sure it's just some critical bugs that won't translate into anything amazing on our end, and that's a shame.
From the Official Xbox Forums:
Just a quick note from the team:We’re working to bring you additional Game Room titles as soon as possible! We appreciate your patience, and we’ve been thrilled by the community response so far. We want to provide you with the best experience possible, so stay tuned!!I'll post more info when I've got it. Thanks for your patience!
Sounds like at least a week delay to me..
Did someone say a week delay? Because it sounds like that's exactly what it's going to be. According to Major Nelson's Twitter account...
Still no clue why there was a delay to begin with. We'll probably never know, at this rate.
Back on schedule for something this week :)
http://kotaku.com/5530259/consider-this-further-notice-game-room-back-on-schedule
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