Saints Row hijacks Games on Demand

by Richard Mitchell { Aug 18th 2009 at 12:45PM }

Major Nelson sends word that Saints Row is now available through the Games on Demand service on Xbox Live. An open-world title, similar to Grand Theft Auto, Saints Row garnered pretty good reviews when it was released way back in 2006. In North America, the Games on Demand version will run you $30. Unsurprisingly, the retail version can be ordered for much less online. Still, if you gots to have it and you gots to have it right now, it's there. Just calling your name.

Add Saints Row to your Xbox 360 download queue

[Thanks, Mike]

Tags: games-on-demand, saints-row, thq, volition

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

jock513 @ Aug 18th 2009 12:55PM

Sigh, and I had such high hopes for being able to download brand-new titles onto my xbox... One day?

Dowse @ Aug 18th 2009 2:14PM

Obviously new titles aren't going to go on demand straight away. Its been said on the Joystiq Xbox podcast that they won't be, as the server probably won't be able to handle it. Besides, i'm sure publishers and retailers would be pretty pissed at microsoft if it happened, and microsoft needs to keep retailers happy, to keep selling their consoles.

Dakar @ Aug 18th 2009 1:11PM

Games on Demand is quickly transitioning from poorly thought-out to flat-out insulting.

Latin_Trident @ Aug 18th 2009 1:50PM

Deal of the Week: Save 240 MS Points when you buy Saints Row.

Dakar, you are absolutely right. I am glad MS gave us a new updated NXE but MS needs to focus on updating it's sad Marketing group. SRSLY

Paul @ Aug 18th 2009 1:12PM

if you buy this for $30 from games on demand, you are a tool. that's all there is too it.

travis @ Aug 18th 2009 1:26PM

Im buying this asap. This is a good deal. It used to cost $60 last time I seen it at the store so now I can get it half price and without the hassle of putting in the disc....sweet!

Paul @ Aug 18th 2009 2:51PM

"It used to cost $60 last time I seen it at the store"

you need to get out more....

Jake @ Aug 18th 2009 1:22PM

Why so much? A three year old game. You pay more for the downloaded version than for the same thing on a disc in a box? Seems like the download should be much cheaper.

And, I am assuming that you can't then sell the download version back as a used game.

Seems like $15 - $20 would have been a fair price for this.when you can buy the disc for that much.

Perhaps MS feels like they would be leaving money on the table if they lowered the price, but I just can't see very many people opting for the download of an old game for more than the disc costs retail new.

odd

Jake @ Aug 18th 2009 1:24PM

I guess the only advantage that I can see is that you don't need the disc in to play the download version. Perhaps people don't want to have to keep up with a disc?

JD @ Aug 18th 2009 1:27PM

I'm sorry. I love my xbox 360 console. She's the only one I own at the moment.. but come on!! Games on Demands is turning out to be a total scam. Lego Stars Wars is $29.99?!?! Saint's Row, Fight Night Round 3, RSV are $29.99?!?!? Games on demand should be priced to compete with retailers. Granted.. Gamestop will have some of these games cheaper used. I saw RSV for $12.99. But if you are buying this to download to the limited space on your HDD... it ought to me much cheaper than this. I think they would have been smarter to have these games to rent. Pay a small fee to have access to them for 5 days or something.. like the movie rentals. That would have been sweet. At least you'd get to try them and earn the achievements without necessarily having to try to keep them on your HDD. I would like to see more Xbox Originals available for download too over these overpriced games of the last 2 or 3 years. These are great games.. but the price is a joke. I can still think of plenty of titles on the original xbox that would run smoother off of the HDD.

whylekat @ Aug 18th 2009 4:33PM

Right. Exactly.

Anyone who buys any of these is a fool! There is no incentive whats-so-ever!!

jaaaaaaaaaaames @ Aug 18th 2009 2:27PM

are downloaded bioshock and assassins creed appearss this is a trap for u to buy the 120gb hard drive just bought the 60gb in january :|

jCarmichael @ Aug 18th 2009 5:29PM

Yeah not a bad plan rip people off with games then you'll need a larger overpriced HDD.

Juanmarquez27 @ Aug 18th 2009 3:54PM

evanmangold eats fruit on the pooper

ChomskyKnows @ Aug 18th 2009 4:04PM

i could never get past 5% of this game due to perpetual game freezes...i nstalled to the HDD which did nothing for me...

kentawilson @ Aug 18th 2009 3:54PM

They charging platinum hits prices for platinum hit games. That's if you buy them new. Which is what your doing. You won't get much if you trade in these games so it's probably not worth it to. I personally don't see a problem with them. I've played them all so i'm obviously not going to buy them again.