Microsoft to start $10 hits program

I just wish I had more time in a day - to take advantage of one or two of these. Maybe I should just stop playing games on three different consoles

I'll wait for the second wave.

Wow, isn't Fusion Fenzy Bill Gates' favorite launch game for the Xbox? I didn't but it....

ill probably pick up Elder scrolls III and Soul Calibur 2 for 10$

:)

Dire_Weasel - "Xbox "platinum hits" aren't based on sales numbers". Dude, you couldn't be more wrong about sales numbers and platinium hits if you tried - << LINK REMOVED >>

YAY!!! Now I still won't buy such great games as 'Enter the Matrix ' and 'Fuzion Frenzy' and ' Counter Strike' for the soon to outdated x-box for only $10. Thanks Microsoft.

This is cool. Alot of people will now get to play great games. Smart move by MS. I'm guessing they want to attract some non gamers that are left.

Here's the list of backwards-compatible games. << LINK REMOVED >>

Most of those games suck. Fusion Fenzy, Mech Assult, and Elder Scrolls are the only good games but who doesn't have those by now anyway?

Most, if not all, games listed here are not backwards compatable.

I need SC II....for 9.99, I'd buy it again. I already have it for gamecube...need spawn...i wonder...is SC II BC for the 360....?

This is actually pretty awesome. I'm impressed with MS... I'm not sure why they decided to start this program (did the games in the new $10 program not sell well enough at the $20 level? is this just to get rid of current-gen inventory?), but whatever their reasons, I applaud them. I'm not a fan- nor a harsh critic- of Microsoft in general, but I think it's great that people who might have skipped these games before can pick them up for so cheap now. Let's hope they keep dropping the prices of their Platinum Hits titles.

SWEET. Never owned xbox180, got 360, and will be getting a 180 eventually too. Now I can get new copies of games I never got to play for $10, that is awesome. Going to get: Counterstrike, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Fuzion Frenzy, MechAssault, Project Gotham Racing 2, Tom Clancy

Fuzion Frenzy was an awesome party game and wasn't nessasarily "kid-centric". Mine got stolen, so I'm happy that I can buy it again for the cheapness.

$9.99, Now thats a deal.

Cool, I figured it was just a matter of time before this happened, now I will just have to wait to see more games lower their prices, m y original XBOX System will be incredible once this keeps up. I don't have to go next gen, yet.

Back in the day i bought the xbox FOR Fusion Frenzy. Me and my buddies playe it all the time. Fun little party game. The only game on that list that sucks is the shrek game

They should concentrate on getting some of those titles backwards compatible, rather than just lowering the price!

Morrowind's the only good game there, and the sequel will be out soon.

A lot of those games are crap, but then again I guess that's what "Platinum Hits" means. It's just branding to sell less popular games ;-)

Fusion Frensy was a great game to play when you got sick of halo. I'd buy it if I wans't saving up for the nest 360 game that I am going to buy

Ain't that the truth, balindos. Some people just love to hear themselves complain. There are a lot of good games on that list, and being able to buy them, brand new, for 10 bucks is a steal. So what if they're a year old...they were good then and they're still good now.

Serious bossjimbob, People are complaining about game being sold cheap. What is going on here. They are only 10 bucks and you still complain. I guess thier is nothing to please you.

Hmmmm pgr2 for 10 bucxks.... yes!! I can finally give my friend back his copy!!!

Too bad most, if not all, these games were already $10 at most places and have been for a while, so this announcement isn't as exciting as it should be.

i think i might buy a game or two on that list

All but about five of these games have been available used for under $10 for months.

Not popular? I see only two games up there that aren't popular: Shrek and Fusion Frenzy. The others, whether they were good or not, sold very well. I don't know what criteria M$ uses to select Platinum Hits, but almost all of these games were very popular. Enter the Matrix and True Crime sucked, but they sold very well.

"Unpopular"? Please...by my count, only about 4 titles on that list were really unpopular - Shrek 2, Enter the Matrix, Fuzion Frenzy (this one is debatable), and True Crime. Granted they are older games, but did you really expect to see 2005 titles at $9.99 a pop?

Whoooo HOOOOO Fusion Frenzy for 10 bucks!!

Nothing wrong with getting good games on the cheap.

Well at least its nice to offer to the less advantage people of the world the chance to even play games, this definatlly cuts down on piracy, even if piracy levels of these games where lower then that of lets say..black and white 2.

lol

Believe it or not, Shrek 2 sold like crazy to parents around the time it came out. I worked for EB Games at the time and it was scooped up. Does it mean it was any good....no, not a chance. And these are based off of sales over a certain amount of time.

People bought Shrek 2? And more startling, they want people to buy it now?

Some people might care, but most, unfortunately, do not. Regardless, Microsoft needs to make up losses by outdoing Sony's collection prices, which, so far, they are. Too bad all these games are old and, for the most part, unpopular. What they need to do is continue the support with 3rd party titles to XBox and slowly leak in XBox 360. There are no 1st part titles coming and that fine, but if Sony will continue to support the PS2, Microsoft should do the same. At least for a little while longer...

Xbox "platinum hits" aren't based on sales numbers.

how did some of these games actually sale that many copies???