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Microsoft launches site for gamers to walk the marketplace without using their XBOX 360s

Microsoft has launched XBOX Live Pipeline, a web-accessible site that allows gamers to explore the XBOX Live Marketplace without using their console.

Instead of having to navigate though the Marketplace using the XBOX 360, now all the trailers, lists of demos, and downloads can all be viewed on your computer via Pipeline. Mind you, all purchases must still be made through Marketplace.

As much of a good idea this web-accessible XBOX Live Pipeline may be, many users still feel that it's short of being a truly convenient way to access XBOX Live Marketplace.  XBOX gamer Matt Brett writes in his blog all the things he finds wrong with Microsoft's latest website. For example, he finds the site lacking in information:

If you’re looking for anything more than how much it costs, 2 screenshots, game ratings and a brief, single paragraph description, you’re in the wrong place. You might as well head to your local game shop and read the back of the games. For the most part, this is all that you’ll find here. When it comes to additional game content, this is useful. Although, not many of them actually have screenshots that are relevant to the new content. But if you’re after a new theme or game pics and want to preview them before you buy, you’re totally out of luck. These sections provide no more than an alphabetical list of themes/pics available. Even Xbox.com does a better job in this department.

Then again, we haven't seen alternatives from Sony and Nintendo yet, so Pipeline just might be the tip of another console arms war.

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This would be cool if....
By IndyJoe on 10/13/2006 7:25:36 AM , Rating: 3
you could login with your Gamertag and spend your points. Then it could queue up the downloads to your Xbox 360 and next time it is turned on it would start the download.




By therealnickdanger on 10/13/2006 8:40:41 AM , Rating: 2
Yeah, I took the survey and said something along those lines. Basically this is little more than an empty shadow of the REAL Marketplace. Kinda weird.


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