According to a recent article on Eurogamer.net, the pricing for the newly revealed Game Room for the Xbox 360 and Windows Live. Playing a single game will cost 40 Microsoft Points, which works about to about fifty cents which seems pretty steep for some of the ancient games that will be available.

Purchasing a gaming cabinet will run 240 Microsoft Points (about two dollars and eighty cents), and hopefully this will preclude any per game costs, but this has yet to be confirmed. With thirty games available upon the launch of the Game Room and one thousand to be available within three years, we'll hopefully see some quality games/cabinets become available along with the accessories you can purchase to furnish your chick repelling Fortress of Gamertude.

Hispanic! At The Disco - I sure as hell am not going to pay fifty cents to play Pong or Asteroid. If they can implement a range of twenty to forty points depending on the age and quality of the game, that would make more sense. I would, however, pay the two forty for Toobin', cuz that game just rocks my socks.

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edgeofblade

Xbox 360 Game Room Pricing Revealed Jan 08 2010 22:35:55 See, I think this "single play" idea is... well, just bad. I love capitalism and the free market... but sometimes, there is just a smarter way to do things. You should be able to "play to own" games. Pay a total of 240 points in single play credit and you own the game on that platform.

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Maneatingcow23

Re:Xbox 360 Game Room Pricing Revealed Jan 08 2010 22:40:56 50 cents to play a game that's been around for over two decades (and you could probably find easily online to play for free)? RIP OFF. Seriously, if you want to bring back the old skool arcade feeling, why not a quarter? And aren't most of those titles available in different places in those classic collections that bundle like fifty games for twenty bucks? This sounds insanely stupid, Microsoft.

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TheShrike1466

Xbox 360 Game Room Pricing Revealed Jan 12 2010 06:03:37 No, the way it works is this: The games cost around $3 (or $5 if you want them on both your 360 and PC). At that point you own it. You also have the ability to roam around your friends' arcades and you can demo a game once for free, THEN it's 50 cents per play after that. That's the only time the 50 cents thing comes into play. www.pcworld.com/article/186389/microsoft...e_arcade_reborn.html

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