Xbox Live should have savegame sharing

For a long time I have been morally opposed to paying for Xbox Live. I’m a PC Gamer at heart, after all, and Valve isn’t charging me to hook up to Steam. So what’s so special about Xbox Live?

But recently, I was given both a copy of Call of Duty 4, and access to an XboX Live account with a good 6 months of playtime remaining, and I am weak. It’s possible that come the end of these six months, I’ll finally talk myself into shelling out real money for the privilege to play games with other people while not actually being social.

But all that aside, here’s a cool feature idea: savegame sharing.

Both my brother and I have a 360. We both have many of the same games. But when he’s over at my place, he can’t play his games unless he brings them over on a memory stick.

What he should be able to do is to log in to his Xbox Live profile and transfer his latest savegame to my console. Then he can kick some butt for a while, go home, and pick it up later right where he left off.

I would buy that service.

ps. why the balls is the 360 tuned to the same remote code as MCE? Did no one think that you would have both the 360 AND your DVR hooked up to the same TV??