| Commando said: Well yeah, thats what I thought at first, but then I think the main point he is trying to make is the profit squeeze, that he feels might drive indies away. If I understood that correctly and thanks squilliam now everyone will just scroll by my original post without reading it. /LOL JK |
I don't think that's what it was at all. Seems like he just wanted to rail on MS. If he could come up with an example of somebody who's shunned XBLA because of this, or better yet, developed a game for XBLA and later felt screwed over, then that would substantiate his claim. Otherwise it's just, "Wah wah, TMNT sold a lot!"
I've heard tell that they're changing their royalty rates for games, especially those that underperform. I do have some concerns that potential devs could find XBLA an unattractive way to go because of that. But I've also heard that MS adjusted it to be closer to the royalties paid for PSN games. Yet this fellow isn't ranting about how Sony has been "screwing indie devs from the word go" or something like that. Basically, he's assuming that all small devs are gormless pricks who don't understand what kind of deals they're negotiating.
