Xbox LIVE Marketplace Black Friday Sale

Major Nelson has announced the 'Xbox LIVE Marketplace Black Friday Sale'. Starting this Friday Gold Members located in the US can save on select Marketplace Offers.

Major Nelson:

"If you live in the US, you know that the day after Thanksgiving is (for better or worse) called Black Friday. Along with many of your favorite stores, the Xbox LIVE Marketplace is also having a Black Friday sales event…and we’re actually stretching it through the weekend. Starting this Friday Gold Members located in the US can save on select Marketplace Offers. Here is the complete list of items, including the discount and savings in MS Points:


Type
Content
Original Price
Black Friday Price
Discount
Savings




Arcade
Rez HD
800
500
37.5%
300



Arcade
Arkadian Warriors
800
500
37.5%
300



Arcade
Assault Heroes
400
250
37.5%
150



Arcade
Catan
800
500
37.5%
300



Arcade
Brain Challenge
800
500
37.5%
300




Arcade
Boogie Bunnies
800
500
37.5%
300



Arcade
Golf: Tee It Up!
800
500
37.5%
300



PDLC
GH3 Metallica “Death Magnetic” Full Album
1440
1000
30.6%
440



PDLC
Forza – March Car Pack
400
250
37.5%
150



PDLC
Crackdown – Getting Busy Bonus Pack
800
500
37.5%
300



PDLC
Rock Band All That Remains Pack 01
440
290
34.1%
150




PDLC
Lips – The Remedy (Jason Mraz)
160
100
37.5%
60




Theme
Gears of War 2 – Last Day
250
180
28.0%
70




Theme
Sonic Unleashed
250
180
28.0%
70



Theme
Castle Crashers Premium Theme
250
180
28.0%
70



The sale starts Friday morning and will run through Sunday evening. These special prices will be available for Xbox LIVE Gold Members in the US only. The new prices will be updated on Friday morning when the sale kicks in."

- Jason

RezHD is about the only one that seems decent. Heard good things about it but not much about the other Arcade games.

Click what links? Did you copy and paste from a website?

Click what links? Did you copy and paste from a website?

Looks like he copied & pasted from major nelsons blog. Checkout the whole story by visiting www.majornelson.com

Click what links? Did you copy and paste from a website?

Oops , yeah I copy/pasted and missed the part about the links (fixed) ;) .

- Jason

They really are some stingy bastards. Why dont they just make ALL the content on Marketplace 37.5% off for Black Friday and then I might actually buy some new shyt.

I agree the pickens are pretty slim for it being Black Friday and all :( .

- Jason

Hmm... US only, boo. I'm only interested in the Castle Crashers Theme though, it looks pretty sweet, though I've never purchased themes or gamerpics before, for 180 points I might.

So I wonder if I download it on my US account, if my Canadian account will have access to it? It works for games, not sure about themes....

If you don't buy Rez HD for the offered 500 points, then there is something seriously wrong with you.

Hmm... US only, boo. I'm only interested in the Castle Crashers Theme though, it looks pretty sweet, though I've never purchased themes or gamerpics before, for 180 points I might.

So I wonder if I download it on my US account, if my Canadian account will have access to it? It works for games, not sure about themes....

me too....

Too bad my freakin 360 is on a UPS truck. I would like to pick up Catan.

Too bad my freakin 360 is on a UPS truck. I would like to pick up Catan.

Can't you buy online if you already have a LIVE account?

http://marketplace.xbox.com

New feature of the NXE. Buy stuff over the interwebs and it will download when you next connect your 360 to Live.

assault heroes is a steal for 250 points

http://marketplace.xbox.com

New feature of the NXE. Buy stuff over the interwebs and it will download when you next connect your 360 to Live.

Nice, thanks! Didn't realize you could do that. I may be picking up an Arcade on Friday anyway so I might just be able to download it right from the dashboard. :)

No excuse to not get REZ HD outside of your clearly obvious poor taste!

I'd buy Rez... had they included everyone in on the sale, not just the US lol.

Another vote for red friday (for us north of you guys AKA Canadians)
Nothing on there I would buy even with a red friday
On a side note The Brick is having a red fridy, great time to pick a new, preferaly red, couch or chair! :P

For those who were on the fence, "Death Magnetic" at a discount seems like a deal. The songs are all about 7 mins in length as well, so plenty of gameplay and it works with GH3 & GHWT.

Hmm... US only, boo. I'm only interested in the Castle Crashers Theme though, it looks pretty sweet, though I've never purchased themes or gamerpics before, for 180 points I might.

So I wonder if I download it on my US account, if my Canadian account will have access to it? It works for games, not sure about themes....

Yep, anything you buy on your console with a US account can be used/viewed by any other accounts on that same 360 (whatever region they're from).

Think I might pick up Brain Challenge. It's a pretty good Big Brain Academy type game. I had fun with the demo.

Hmm... US only, boo.

Well, Black Friday is a US custom.
Maybe they'll do a Canada only sale on Boxing day...

They really are some stingy bastards. Why dont they just make ALL the content on Marketplace 37.5% off for Black Friday and then I might actually buy some new shyt.

It is hella lame considered how the prices almost never drop on XBL and they are pretty high already (even 180pts for a theme is about 150 points too many). This is Microsoft for ya this gen, the same MS that charges over a dollar a gigabyte for a hard drive and $90 for a wireless adapter in the year 2008.

I say every game on XBLA older than a year should be at 400 points.

I say every game on XBLA older than a year should be at 400 points.

SEGA would go with that.
But the smaller indie developers would starve.
So, yeah; if you want nothing but Frogger2 and the like on XBLA...

Trouble is most of us would rather pay 800 points and get *good* stuff rather than *cheap* stuff.
A lot of the best games on XBLA aren't viable at less than 800.
(Do you really think the market for Catan or Carcassone or Dominoes or Cloning Clyde is *that* big?)

You can make a case for (finer-grained and) lower pricing on the XNA Community Games but XBLA games are generally fairly priced.

(Do you really think the market for Catan or Carcassone or Dominoes or Cloning Clyde is *that* big?).

No, and I don't think many people right now in November 2008 and beyond are interested in paying $10 for a 2.5 year old platformer like Cloning Clyde. I think they could come ahead just on volume.

To be reasonable, I don't think every game should hit that mark (Braid, for example, could go to 800, or whatever), but I also don't like how online distribution has ruined discounted prices. Just earlier this morning it was possible to pick up Left 4 Dead on PC from Amazon for $20. It won't be that price on Steam for years.

Ooooh a sale on virtual content!

Its amazing what Microsoft has done. They put this little box in our living rooms that charges us money. Then they put a black friday sale out to get folks to buy more. Like its a 'deal'. lol.

Ooooh a sale on virtual content!

Its amazing what Microsoft has done. They put this little box in our living rooms that charges us money. Then they put a black friday sale out to get folks to buy more. Like its a 'deal'. lol.

So the box controls your wallet? :confused:

No, and I don't think many people right now in November 2008 and beyond are interested in paying $10 for a 2.5 year old platformer like Cloning Clyde. I think they could come ahead just on volume.

To be reasonable, I don't think every game should hit that mark (Braid, for example, could go to 800, or whatever), but I also don't like how online distribution has ruined discounted prices. Just earlier this morning it was possible to pick up Left 4 Dead on PC from Amazon for $20. It won't be that price on Steam for years.

Agree 100%. It's digital! They're shooting themselves in the foot, all these stupid MBA types dreaming this crap up. If they had paid attention in those MBA lectures they'd know that selling 1,000,000 units at $5 each is, um, just a BIT more profitable than selling only 250,000 units at $10 each. Some people at MS need to read the book The Long Tail. It's funny you reference Amazon, as they very much are a Long Tail retailer. Get with the program Microsoft! You can actually make your customers happy AND increase your profits. Welcome to the digital era. You know, the one you think you created? You should try cashing in on it....

At least Black Friday sales on Live don't kill people.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iDXtETwP7G17BQsO07DecwxuziLgD94O3NN00

At least Black Friday sales on Live don't kill people.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iDXtETwP7G17BQsO07DecwxuziLgD94O3NN00

Wow, I don't put on my "righteous" hat too often but DAMN those greedy assh*les actually killed somebody with their own stupidity....for a deal on a TV? That's shameful.

Wow, I don't put on my "righteous" hat too often but DAMN those greedy assh*les actually killed somebody with their own stupidity....for a deal on a TV? That's shameful.

Yea and I bet 90% of the people barging in there couldn't even afford whatever Chinese made crap they were about to buy and were just gonna put it on plastic.

These people are barbarians. All of them. Including Wal-Mart, who doesn't bother to spend some money to make a line and hire a few rent a cops to make sure people are in check. *******s.

I gotta say these games are pretty lame, I tried the Res Demo a little while back and it wasnt for me, I will give it another try today just to make sure since I have a ton of MS points and everyone seems to love it, maybe it is me.

Agree 100%. It's digital! They're shooting themselves in the foot, all these stupid MBA types dreaming this crap up. If they had paid attention in those MBA lectures they'd know that selling 1,000,000 units at $5 each is, um, just a BIT more profitable than selling only 250,000 units at $10 each. Some people at MS need to read the book The Long Tail. It's funny you reference Amazon, as they very much are a Long Tail retailer. Get with the program Microsoft! You can actually make your customers happy AND increase your profits. Welcome to the digital era. You know, the one you think you created? You should try cashing in on it....

Two things. First of all, I'm pretty sure that MS knows whether or not they are making money on these games, and what dropping prices does to their sales. I'm not certain why someone with no visibility into their business would think that they know better how to make money in Microsoft's business than Microsoft.

Second of all, they also have to get the buy in from the game developer and publisher if they want to drop the prices on these already cheap games.