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Banjo Kazooie and Tomb Raider demos available on Xbox Live
Demos for Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (pictured) and Tomb Raider: Underworld (I'm quite sure you've seen enough pictures of Lara Croft) are available now from Xbox Live's Marketplace. It's no surprise that the Banjo-Kazooie demo isn't on the Playstation Store, since that's an Xbox 360 exclusive game. But why isn't the demo for Tomb Raider: Underworld, which will also be out for the PC tomorrow, available for the Playstation 3?
And while I'm at it, how long is Sony going to limit demos to people who buy Qore, their "high-definition gaming lifestyle show" that costs two bucks? So far there have been five issues or episodes or whatever you want to call them, each with exclusive access to some incentive: first the SOCOM beta, then the Naruto Ultimate Ninja demo, then the Resistance 2 beta, then MotorStorm: Pacific Rift demo, and now the Home beta.
By obonicus at 12:57 PM ON 10/30/08
You do know about the whole 'demo exclusivity' thing involving Tomb Raider, right?
As for PS3 demos, they do become available eventually. The betas don't. You can pick up Naruto right now.
By ReeyferMadness at 7:54 PM ON 10/30/08
Sony's just trying to find a way to charge for their online service and still be able to say they don't. It's really sad that the console makers think that that's something they have a right to CHARGE for - letting you play your game you paid for over your internet connection you paid for on your piece of hardware you paid for. You guys and your boys over at DVice like to talk so much crap about the oil companies with their scandalous 10% profit margin (lol, never got why ppl complained about oil - IT"S EXPENSIVE, get over it), why don't you point out the turds right in this industry? You get a better experience by ANY measure on the PC, and you have to PAY for it on the console.
No thanks. I'll take my hundreds of free maps, modifications, and even total conversions that give me a whole new game for nothing (that's often better than the original). Consoles really do suck.
By Persona7 at 12:46 AM ON 10/31/08
I am REALLY digging the Banjo Nuts and Bolts demo. It has that old school Rare humor and inside jokes. I spent literally hours building random car/boat/plane hybrids.
The graphics and sound are also freaking spectacular, seriously they awe me every time I play the demo. Rares still got it.
Persona7:
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