Buying games for Xbox Live doesn’t have to be a hassle
anymore.
Amazon.com is now selling Xbox Live Arcade games on its site – the best part is that
gamers only need to pay what the game costs.
On the Xbox 360, players have to buy set Microsoft Points,
which leads to point crumbs here and there. From a business standpoint, it
makes sense: force the consumer to buy more points than they need (more often
than not), leaving them with a useless dollar or two.
Microsoft has already collected the money, so the consumer
can either just leave the change to go to waste or spend more money to
buy another game, to the annoyance of many a gamer.
Amazon’s service allows one to pay exact change for a game
code, which can be redeemed for the game on the system itself.
Seems like a good, money-saving alternative to buying games
directly off XBLA.
Now if only Amazon will do the same for Nintendo’s Wii Shop…