Game Room Trailer

Really Microsoft? Home? Of all the things you choose to steal from Sony its Home? lol

You'd think Microsoft learned a thing or two about the success of shit like Home from Sony, but I guess not

This is MS's version of Sony's Home?

woah, you have to pay 40 points anytime you want to use one of the games that you already bought?  Does anyone have a link to where that's confirmed because that sounds a little out there to me...

I agree with what most people are saying, this is Microsoft's version of Home. It's a cool idea, but if they're going to charge people to use it, even though it may be a free download, and we all know they will, it's practice as usual coming from the company that charges for every little thing anyways on Xbox Live. Now compared to what Sony has with Home by allowing us to play mini-games for free, even rewarding us free clothing for playing the game or reaching a certain goal within whatever your playing, will appeal to way more people in the long run. That is not including free online play and the total customization to the console itself - for free.
 
From what I've been seeing since E3 of 2009, coming from Microsoft, it seems that they don't have anything new or innovative for 2010 in terms of IP or games. It's all about features. And with that Microsoft should reconsider being in the gaming biz since they're focus is now on UI features and technology. CES seems fitting for them.

Awesome can't wait.

Any possible opportunity to have Custer's Revenge in 1080p?

" Obviosly because the trailer didn't show queue's there won't be any when it's live. So how does it work? I 'trick out' an arcade and all my friends can come along. As long as they are gold subs. As long as they also own the games? Hmm. "

Looks...interesting.  It is a lot like Home's arcades, but perhaps more personal and refined.  Overall though, this is a trojan horse for pay to play; you get the same core functionality with XBLA and leaderboards. 

The few times I've actually logged into Home, all I found were people standing around talking to each other and emoting.  It all seemed pretty pointless and boring.  I don't know why Microsoft would bother to mimic that.  I'll try it out if all the games are free.

" I can't believe how many people are claiming this is a "rip-off of Home".  To me this only seems to be an arcade, you know those things that used to exist?  But even if Microsoft were to introduce some kind of 3D chat room, I still wouldn't feel they were ripping off Sony.  Is no one here aware of how large scale social networking in these days?  Habbo Hotel, Second Life, IMVU, etc, all 3D "Home-like" chat systems, all of which were done well before Home.  Even Google, Yahoo and Microsoft itself have 3D chat environments for messenger programs.  The 360 moving into that territory eventually is innevitable, I don't see why "Sony did it first is a factor".  Sony fanboys seem to be pretty fickle when it comes to this.  I don't remember any complaints about the trophy system being added in, the Playstation Store, gamercards, the Classics being made available.. hell, even PSN itself is heavily based on XBL and they even just announced plans to make PSN cross compatable with other mediums, that's copying too, right?  So again, why is such a big deal when Microsoft release something with some similarties to something on the Playstation.  If you think they're the only ones guilty of this, you deserve to be kicked off this site and sent back to GameFAQs. "

So its like Home, but on the Xbox 360...? Ahh internet fanboyism. It being on the 360 won't make it suck any less.

didnt the ps3 do something like this for home? didnt it suck? i guess if they do this a lot better than that it will be ok since its only focusing on the arcade aspect, rather than a social one. anyway i wouldnt mind being able to legally own some classic arcade games that havent been molested into new or "extreme" versions. the dropping quarters aspect is lame since, as jeff pointed out, most of those games only cost a quarter per play. it really comes down to the handling of everything

The concept of a virtual arcade place can work, but it doesn't seem like they're gonna get it right either.

According to Eurogamer, this stuff is going to be expensive. 

"The concept of a virtual arcade place can work, but it doesn't seem like they're gonna get it right either. "

Burn it, and avert your eyes.

There are free flash games like these.

Oh Game Room, what happen? 

Watching this trailer for the first time, long after the whole Game Room trainwreck went off the rails, I find myself wondering many things. Why the Western theme? Why the focus on the Avatars capering in the arcade over actual in-game footage? And did they purposely set out to make the ugliest Avatars they could? Seriously, those two they reveal from shadows at the beginning made me cringe.
 
But the thing I find more interesting is that the comments reveal that people completely misunderstood what Game Room actually was, or even what it was meant to be. All the stand-up arcade cabinets and Avatars and mascots floating around are essentially just a fancy background to a collection of retro games accessed through a menu. Yet because of the trailer's ill-advised focus on the Avatars over the games that were supposedly the whole point of the service, people thought it was a callous attempt on Microsoft's part to create their own version of Home, ignoring the fact that even back then, Home was abysmally unpopular. 
 
Going back through the Game Room Quick Looks, I can't help but wonder if Game Room ever could have been anything better than what it turned out to be, or if it was doomed from the start. Having a unified area of Xbox Live dedicated to retro gaming isn't a bad idea by any stretch of the imagination, so it's really a shame that Game Room was such a complete, unmitigated failure.