YouTube wants to sell you games

"In yet another fine example of commercial synergy"

Here comes Topher Grace.

no way jose,

i rather jack off with a cheese grater than give youtube a red cent of my wonga.

Rick Roll'd: The Game!

I would like to buy some games.

I can see it now as YouTube attempts to sell us games and at the same time coming up with new IPs....

RickRoll'D : The Game

If it means that they'll start pulling in a more casual gamer that later on converts to a mainstream gamer then I'm all for it. I wonder what the other items are.

"(Oh, and YouTube cost Google $1.76 billion and they'd really like to start justifying that.)"

I think they've already done a good job in that regard.

Nothing really shocking here.

If I see a video on YouTube, it usually has the name of the game/song/tv show somewhere on the page that I can use to research further. This new feature takes a few steps out of the process and nets the site money that it would not normally receive, which I guess is the point.

I'm curious to see what sites the links will use, and how they will be monitored.

So basically YouTube has all of this copyrighted material running on its site without permission, and now they are going to make money off of this material they don't own. Nice!

I wonder if tube.com is taken.

I doubt the people who make the videos will see any profit at all. I know for a fact my N+ and GTA4 videos have helped sell more then enough copies of the game(s), yet Im sure youtube would not consider letting me in on the profit.

So basically it goes like this,

-Awsome gamer uploads cool ass clip of game (lets just say halo 3 for example)
-Gamer2 sees said clip on youtube, thinks "OMFG IM BUYING THIS GAME" (this already happens)
- User sees they can buy the game right there by following the link after the video is done.
Youtube = profit, gamer who made cool video which convinced other to purchase game = no profit.

I think they should share the money with the owners of the videos, similar to the adsense program (shared money on advertising clicks)

So now all rap videos will come with links to a site where you can buy an Xbox?

(Seriously, every rap video has someone, somewhere in it playing an Xbox. It's really weird.)

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