How many Xbox live arcade titles will still exist when the service is shutdown

[Jehuty]

It seems only a handful of titles will still exist, outside of Microsoft maybe letting you use all of them on its next system. Have I missed anything or are 20 titles all you can currently salvage at the moment.

Hard drive:
-Hexic HD

Memory card 512 MB:
-Geometry Wars
-Worms

Xbox Live Arcade: Unplugged vol 1
-Bejeweled 2 Deluxe
-Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
-Hardwood Backgammon
-Hardwood Hearts
-Outpost Kaloki
-Wik: The Fable of Souls

Xbox Live Arcade: Compilation disc
-Boom Boom Rocket
-Feeding Frenzy
-Luxor 2
-Pac-Man Championship Edition
-Uno

Namco Museum : Virtual Arcade
-Dig Dug
-Galaga
-Galaga Legions
-Mr. Driller Online
-Ms. Pac-Man
-New Rally-X
-Pac-Man
-Pac-Man Championship Edition
-Xevious

Edit 17/4/09- Just noticed today that some 512MB cards include Worms instead of geometry wars.

[smork]

This is why I buy very few Live titles. With a physical copy of a game I know I will still be able to play it in 10 years, or can sell it, but with a digital distribution?

Sure, digital distribution is convenient, but I am not ready to give up my consumer rights just yet.

/soapbox

I wish MS would issue a clear policy as to what your rights are when this console generation stops receiving support. Will you be able to somehow burn these digital versions to a DVD and play on newer systems? It'd be nice to know.

[Bojay1997]

This is why I buy very few Live titles. With a physical copy of a game I know I will still be able to play it in 10 years, or can sell it, but with a digital distribution?

Sure, digital distribution is convenient, but I am not ready to give up my consumer rights just yet.

/soapbox

I wish MS would issue a clear policy as to what your rights are when this console generation stops receiving support. Will you be able to somehow burn these digital versions to a DVD and play on newer systems? It'd be nice to know.

Not to be a jerk, but does anyone really expect Microsoft, or any of the other big three for that matter, to allow you to continue transferring content from generation to generation of their consoles? I have never liked the whole download only model, but I have accepted that some games will only ever be distributed that way and that once my 360 hard drive dies someday, I may lose them forever. I guess it's not really any different than a manufacturer refusing to make a console backward compatible. Does anyone get upset that you have to pay quite a bit for NES games on the VC for Wii when many of us already own them and Nintendo could have added $15 worth of parts and a cartridge slot and made the Wii compatible with the NES? Obviously, that wouldn't make business or aesthetic sense and nobody really expects them to go that far back, but it's really not too different than what's happening with download only content.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Wait a minute! If MS stops supporting Live for the 360 then your DL games no longer function? If that's the case I'm never, ever getting a 360. That's just a heap of bullshit. The XBLA games are pretty much the only stuff I want for the damned system...

This is bad. I been playing games for awhile now and this shit still confuses me.

[CDiablo]

Odds are that the games will be transferable and for sale well into the 720 era. The backwards compatible Xbox 1 games that are 5 years old still have their DLC for sale so I cant see why they would give up potential revenue.

[ProgrammingAce]

The games will still function after xbox live shuts down... which is incredably unlikely as long as microsoft stays in business. It doesn't take much hardware to run the auth servers.

[NYLatenite]

Here's one other compilation of XBLA titles that is also available from retail;

Popcap Arcade: Volume 1
Bejeweled 2
Zuma
Feeding Frenzy
AstroPop

While I'd hope MS makes XBLA titles backward compatible with whatever system comes next, the simple fact is I owned Ms Pac-Man for Xbox Live Arcade on the original Xbox and it was never made BC - wound up buying it again when the 360 version was added.

As for the 360, the authorization servers aren't needed to play XBLA titles - so long as it's the same 360 you bought the games on (or one that you have done a content transfer on) the games will work as full versions regardless of whether or not you're online. Of course, with the 360's other issues, that could get complicated as well.

[G-Boobie]

The games will still function after xbox live shuts down... which is incredably unlikely as long as microsoft stays in business. It doesn't take much hardware to run the auth servers.

That's excellent news. I have a pretty large XBLA collection, and in the back of my head I was a little bit worried about it.

[SegaAges]

The games will still function after xbox live shuts down... which is incredably unlikely as long as microsoft stays in business. It doesn't take much hardware to run the auth servers.

Nah, that company is kinda small bro, we don't know.






Kidding. I am only kidding, don;t punch me.

[Nature Boy]

Why should I be worried again? As long as my 360 runs I can still play the game, right? So what's the fuss again?

Sure you can resell games you've bought on disc if you don't like 'em. But what would EB give you for a game that was $5 brand new anyway? A quarter? A dollar? I can see the sign now:

"Trade in 20 DLC games and get Braid 2 for free!"

I need to play the DLC I've bought more, that's for sure, but I regret buying none of it. Getting a game for $5-$15 is fantastic IMO.

[hellfire]

by the time the next gen systems come out their will be an xbox live arcade emulater

[dr101z]

"Trade in 20 DLC games and get Braid 2 for free!"

Nah, with GameStop it would be more like "Trade in 40 DLC games and get Braid 2 for 50% off, but only after purchasing two used titles at full price. (NOTE: Shredded waterlogged manual and our generic cover insert are extra.)"

[E Nice]

Memory card 512 MB:
-Geometry Wars

I've seen some that also had Worms on it.