There you are, driving down the street in GTA IV and a song comes on the radio that you’ve never heard before. It’s pretty good, you’re bopping your head to the beats and then it’s gone. Well, in GTA IV you can buy that song and it’s as simple as pressing a few buttons on your cellphone (in-game of course).
Rockstar Games and Amazon.com have partnered up to bring video gamers something that has never been done before. In what is sure to raise a few eyebrows, gamers will be able to download any song they hear in-game (which is rumored to be around 200) and it will appear in their Amazon MP3 account. Please note that this will only be available in the U.S. initially.
“Advertised throughout Liberty City, the cheekily-named “ZiT” technology is built into the game’s mobile phone interface system. As players cruise around the world listening to the in-game radio, they can at any point ‘mark’ a song by opening their phone and dialing the number ZIT-555-0100. Gamers will then receive a text message with the song and artist names, and if they’re registered at the forthcoming Rockstar Games Social Club community site, they’ll find an e-mail waiting in their inbox with a direct link to a custom playlist on Amazon.com. All songs tagged “ZiT” will be stored here, available for preview and purchase at Amazon’s going rate of $.89-$.99 per track. Best of all, those MP3s are free of the Digital Rights Management (DRM) limitations imposed on files downloaded through Apple’s iTunes store and thus can be imported into any computer or digital device with no constraints.”
Great price considering how much songs go for on GH3 and Rock Band. Now, if only April 29th would get here sooner.
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