So as part of Microsoft’s Xbox Live Marketplace blitz, they will be providing tons of new content throughout the week in the form of themes, pictures, demos and trailers. And taking a look at Major Nelson’s blog today, it sure looks like this has already started.

The problem is, it’s a free week for Xbox Live, so everyone and their mother will be downloading this content. And the fact that you can’t do anything with your Xbox 360 while downloading content, well, quite frankly it’s going to suck. Poor download speeds, tons of stuff to download, 24 hours in a day. Do you expect me to use this for gaming at all? Or maybe sleep? I guess I could nap in between downloads.

You suck Microsoft. The two things people wanted out of Xbox 360 was background downloads and/or a download queue; and the ability to pause, rewind, fast forward video content on the 360. Twelve hours of downtime last week and you couldn’t even squeeze this stuff in.

Good in theory, poor in execution. Thanks, Microsoft.