Your Xbox Live Avatar can give a pet a good home tomorrow

by Justin McElroy on Dec 2nd 2009 10:30AM

We often worry that our Avatars get lonely when we're not focusing our attention on our 360s. We can give them all the toys we want, but it's just not the same as the touch of another living, not-living pet. Tomorrow, they'll finally have a proper companion as pets come to the Avatar Marketplace, including Large Dog, Pug Dog, Dog in Bag, Cat, Siamese Cat, Long Haired Cat, Goldfish, Guinea Pig, Monkey, Bird, Snake and Pony each for 240

($3).

By the way, we're hoping that by "Dog in Bag" we're talking about the purse kind and not the "adolescent sign of future deviant behavior" kind. Only time will tell, we suppose.

Tags: avatar, avatar-marketplace, avatar-pets, avatars, Microsoft, xblm, Xbox-360, xbox-live

Reader Comments (118)

Yay! I always wanted to get charged for a fake pet!

They are going to run out of monkeys to sell.

There is also a lawsuit happening apparenty because of the moral issues involved:

http://gamegamepow.com/drupal-6.14/node/143

Now if only they'd fix the Avatars so the males stood like men instead of Playboy bunnies dressed like men.

I know I'm part of the problem here, but I want to get one of these avatar pets. Preferably the long-haired cat, so my avatar can stroke him while adjusting his monocle and pondering plans for world domination.

@ zelderman: Your comment made me laugh man. That's got to be the best explanation I've heard from someone that buys these items. Somehow it makes me feel somewhat better to know that you know this stuff isn't worth the cash but it has that pesky 'gotta-have-it' pull to it. I can understand and respect that. As far as the cat goes, that is what I would get if I were to purchase this too. I'd get it for me and my wife. That said, It would be awesome if they gave some kind of feel good incentive like my suggestion about donating a dollar of the proceeds to an animal charity of some sort. I would feel good in making a purchase if they did something like that and I think more people would purchase stuff if that were the case. Anyway, thanks for giving me a fresh perspective on this stuff. You make a convincing argument.

Ok...

Who buys this stuff, idiots? When is MS going to release more games with XBL integration? Games worth playing.

@ Darthbradwart, guess what jackass? your consoles still play games and play them just fine. Don't like the fact you can stream blu-ray movies from your hard-drive to your PS3 via PS3media server? that is fine go play your little big planet all by your lonesome while i actually use my consoles to their full potential.

Consoles are built for games, jackass.

A movie or streaming doesn't push the console to it's limits, the games do.

Who frigg'n cares about an avatar pet.

pets? ive got no where to walk this thing, does this mean i gotta do the pooper scooper thing on my dash twice a day or what? i dont want tiny lil lincoln logs cloggin up my NXE. its already laggy as hell these days..

and yes, in hell, everyone has dial up.. dun dun DUUUUUUN!!!!!

how about a flood infection form as a pet? i would pay for it

What? No drop bear?

the full Sonic 2 XBLA game is on sale this week for the exact same price. I just got that instead.

I may throw down on a pet if/when they make a tortoise