Video Marketplace - coming to Europe soon? (allegedly)

Fingleberries

This is currently a rumour, but they (at the Official XBox Magazine) are expecting an announcement soon...

http://www.oxm.co.uk/articles/news/hardware/elite_to_usher_in_video_marketplace_in_europe

Elite to usher in Video Marketplace for Europe?
05 Apr 2007 5:21pm
Announcement expected in "weeks"

At a special event held in central London today entitled, The Tour of Truth, Director of Microsoft’s Game Technology Group Scott Henson has stated that there would be ‘synergy’ between the forthcoming release of the new Elite console and the online Video Marketplace service.

And while Microsoft once again declined to comment on the release of the HDMI-enabled Xbox 360 Elite in Europe, clearer details emerged about the company’s strategy going forward.

Full HD movies which are currently only available for download via the US Marketplace, weigh in at roughly 6-7GB, making the new 120GB hard drive of the Elite a potential must-have for movie buffs. So will we see both console and Marketplace extension arrive this side of the pond simultaneously? Michael Newey, Platform Marketing Manager, Xbox Europe stated a full announcement for Europe is "a matter of weeks away".

‘The Tour of Truth’ was a press briefing that intended to highlight the differences between the Xbox 360 and Sony’s PS3. Areas of note included the Xbox 360’s ability to automatically upscale to 1080p on high definition TVs that support it and a comparison between games on both formats, namely Virtua Tennis 3 and Call of Duty 3.

Couple these factors alongside the infrastructure of Xbox Live, a platform that is growing on a daily basis, and it is clear that Microsoft now believe that the next-gen war is on, and they are here to win!

cathald

Thanks...very interesting!

Dman001

Yay!!!!!!!!

ZygOte

the only problem is getting crappy ISP's (thats all of them in ireland) to realise that they cannot continue to enforce download caps.

NiSmO

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thefinalstage

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Nope. They work on Ip addresses.

lee_baby_simms

NiSmO wrote:

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Yes you can, i've downloaded a few shows from it.

thefinalstage

lee_baby_simms wrote:

Yes you can, i've downloaded a few shows from it.

I stand corrected like a catholic school boy

it would be great but only if i had quick broadband

anto1208

Im really getting sick of companies screwing us in europe its as big a market as the US and id say bigger than japan yet we get the machines late get games late cant download movies / tv shows etc . Ive just about given up on my xbox they would want to do something quickly or they will lose that concole war the playstation is far more usefull .

kaisersose77

they playstation doesnt have anything like the 360 marketplace yet, and Sony will just be as bad as microsoft when they do have one up and running judging by how they have treated us so far. Anyways your not gonna get new movies or tv shows unless you want the same films you can rent already in xtravision or a new episode of eastenders or an episode of Lost that rte have shown already.

johnnyflav

It can be very frustrating for European gamers when we're only an after thought in the eyes of games manufacturers. Despite having the 2nd highest console per capita in the world (behind Japan), we're still consistantly being shafted by later releases, poorer services and more expensive products.

But saying that, the European market is accommodated for more by Microsoft than Playstation. If you recall the launch of the original XBOX, it was released in Europe before Japan, a first for any major console release.
Sony on the other hand, leave us months behind the US and Japan, and when it does arrive it has less functionality and carries a much larger price tag than seen in any other region.

I wouldn't be so quick to judge about XBOX Marketplace, although it might seem unfair that once again we don't recieve the same quality of service, the US is the only region in the world that has access to movies and tv downloads, even their Canadian neighbours don't have access. From Microsofts perspective, when they only have the resources to open this service to one region, the obvious choice is the US.

thefinalstage

johnnyflav wrote:

It can be very frustrating for European gamers when we're only an after thought in the eyes of games manufacturers. Despite having the 2nd highest console per capita in the world (behind Japan), we're still consistantly being shafted by later releases, poorer services and more expensive products.

But saying that, the European market is accommodated for more by Microsoft than Playstation. If you recall the launch of the original XBOX, it was released in Europe before Japan, a first for any major console release.
Sony on the other hand, leave us months behind the US and Japan, and when it does arrive it has less functionality and carries a much larger price tag than seen in any other region.

I wouldn't be so quick to judge about XBOX Marketplace, although it might seem unfair that once again we don't recieve the same quality of service, the US is the only region in the world that has access to movies and tv downloads, even their Canadian neighbours don't have access. From Microsofts perspective, when they only have the resources to open this service to one region, the obvious choice is the US.

And whenever a game has a top score its always the Americans that are there due to getting the game months ago!

Ciaran500

thelastangryman wrote:

And whenever a game has a top score its always the Americans that are there due to getting the game months ago!

Most 360 games have come out the same week here and in the US.


Stop making excuses for your high scores

Fingleberries

Ciaran500 wrote:

Most 360 games have come out the same week here and in the US.


Stop making excuses for your high scores

Oooh ... now that's a burn

anto1208

kaisersose77 wrote:

they playstation doesnt have anything like the 360 marketplace yet, and Sony will just be as bad as microsoft when they do have one up and running judging by how they have treated us so far. Anyways your not gonna get new movies or tv shows unless you want the same films you can rent already in xtravision or a new episode of eastenders or an episode of Lost that rte have shown already.

Its pretty much the same , all you can do on xbox live is download demos trailers and old arcade games on ps3 you can only down load demo's trailers and old games (teken 5 ,lemmings ) . Only difference is sony dont charge you to play online like xbox do .

Well all i want is south park you can download seasons 1 to 11 now on US xbox market place . Since my laptop was stolen downloading anythign has gone out the window .

thefinalstage

Ciaran500 wrote:

Most 360 games have come out the same week here and in the US.


Stop making excuses for your high scores

I feel violated

FuzzyWuzzyWazza

johnnyflav wrote:

It can be very frustrating for European gamers when we're only an after thought in the eyes of games manufacturers. Despite having the 2nd highest console per capita in the world (behind Japan), we're still consistantly being shafted by later releases, poorer services and more expensive products.

Yeah but AFAIK we (Eurpoe) are the largest gameing market in the world. Yet we are constantly being left out in the cold when in comes to new games and gear, thought admittadly thing are getting better for us.