YouTube to start selling games - bit-tech.net Forums

Bindibadgi · 9th Oct 2008, 10:55

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/10...elling-games/1

Google has announced that it is to start selling games through YouTube soon thanks to an announced partnership with Amazon

ChaosDefinesOrder · 9th Oct 2008, 11:03

The music video implementation is a great idea in principle! I say in principle because I don't use iTunes and never will, much preferring to buy the CHEAPER full hard copy album through cdwow or play.com)

ParaHelix.org · 9th Oct 2008, 13:34

To be honest, I don't think the combination of YouTube and games will work, Google selling games is great, but not through YouTube in my oppinion. YouTube is too spesific of a website.

mclean007 · 9th Oct 2008, 13:48

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Originally Posted by ChaosDefinesOrder

The music video implementation is a great idea in principle! I say in principle because I don't use iTunes and never will, much preferring to buy the CHEAPER full hard copy album through cdwow or play.com)

I'm like you, but it looks like we're in the minority, given the vast number of tracks now being sold through ITMS. If it links to your Amazon one-click and ITMS accounts, then it could be a huge driver of impulse track and game purchases. Think of the other possibilities - it could link new movie trailers to local listings and the bookings pages of your nearest cinemas (Google already does listings so it wouldn't be a huge step) and old movie/TV clips and trailers to their listings on Amazon or Play.

Mentai · 9th Oct 2008, 13:58

Ug itunes. Go DRM infested music! Honestly, if it were linking to DRM free flac or 320kbps mp3 of music on youtube, I would buy them. Their loss =/

leviathan18 · 9th Oct 2008, 16:00

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Originally Posted by ParaHelix.org

To be honest, I don't think the combination of YouTube and games will work, Google selling games is great, but not through YouTube in my oppinion. YouTube is too spesific of a website.

why, if you look for fifa 09 as the example given you are watching an ad of the game, if you like it you have a button to buy it from amazon i think its smart

Spaceraver · 10th Oct 2008, 04:31

Never ever itunes.. I don't have a mac, so I can live without it.

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Spaceraver Weekend Junkie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Kolding, Denmark Posts: 1,304	Never ever itunes.. I don't have a mac, so I can live without it. __________________ "Faith: not wanting to know what is true." - Friedrich Nietzsche. "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca Last thing I remember, I was drinking this glowing green sht out of a test tube and dancing like a bstard.

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ParaHelix.org Supermodder Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 270	To be honest, I don't think the combination of YouTube and games will work, Google selling games is great, but not through YouTube in my oppinion. YouTube is too spesific of a website.

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Mentai Supermodder Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New Zealand Posts: 491	Ug itunes. Go DRM infested music! Honestly, if it were linking to DRM free flac or 320kbps mp3 of music on youtube, I would buy them. Their loss =/