kylejn Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 I was just thinking about this. Wouldn't it be great if GameFly were integrated with Xbox Live in the same what that NetFlix is? Where you could rent games through Live and download them to your machine? NXE added the ability to install games to the hard drive, so it would only be a matter of wrapping some DRM around the install and that'd be it. I would sign up for GameFly immediately if they offered this sort of service. You're sitting at home, decide that you want to play some Xbox 360 game, so you stick it in your queue on Xbox Live and it's ready to play a couple hours later. Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rookas Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 6 GB downloads? Uggh. I love gamefly, I'm currently on the 4 game plan, but I'm cool with waiting three days to get my games. Good idea, but not practical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corris Veteran Posted December 7, 2008 Veteran Share Posted December 7, 2008 Doubt that would ever happen. Firstly they don't offer anything like that now, which is why NetFlick was so easy to integrate, it already offers streaming movies to the PC, so the Xbox360 is just another medium to stream to. And secondly, I just don't see it working at the moment, I don't think publishers would be too happy if such a system would take off, they would lose out surely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunknMunky Veteran Posted December 7, 2008 Veteran Share Posted December 7, 2008 6 GB downloads? Uggh. I love gamefly, I'm currently on the 4 game plan, but I'm cool with waiting three days to get my games. Good idea, but not practical. Well it only takes like somewhere between 1 and 3 hours :rofl: It's really not as slow as you may think, and it would be even faster with those big ol' US connections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rookas Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Well it only takes like somewhere between 1 and 3 hours :rofl:It's really not as slow as you may think, and it would be even faster with those big ol' US connections. Lengthy downloads are only part of the problem. Another problem would be gamefly raising prices to pay for bandwidth, that would make me a sad panda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunknMunky Veteran Posted December 7, 2008 Veteran Share Posted December 7, 2008 Yeah pricing would be a problem, no doubt you'd be paying through the nose and have some sort of limit per day / month. It'd still be quicker than waiting for it to arrive in the mail though. Edit: SP reference ftw (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayepecks Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Call me crazy, but I don't see this happening. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Lyle Global Moderator Posted December 7, 2008 Global Moderator Share Posted December 7, 2008 I bet they would cut off the Canadian users, just like netflix's. A good idea, but maybe not in this time and age.. where bandwidth cap seems to be the standard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessar Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 I'm sure bandwidth versus shipping costs would balance out. The real problem is getting the developers and publishers to go along with the idea. Gamefly would likely have to give them a %age of the profits, which i'm sure would be worth it, but it's something to consider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addc182 Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Gamefly integration with the UK would be awsome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreqFace Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 I want a Netflix equivalent in the UK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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