mrstickball on 30 August 2008
| matt247 said: without xbla they wouldn't even have an opportunity and psn wouldn't exist |
Correct.
As much as people would love to fault Microsoft for what they do, the fact is, they did it. Nintendo nor Sony had any systems in place for a good DD service for unique IPs until Microsoft did it. From Day-1, Microsoft had unique, non-retro titles available for download.
As an investor/business analyst, I will, at some point fund the development of a game. I approached a few DS, PSN, XBLA, and other developers for the game. Guess what service they tell me to go with? XBLA. It's still the premier servce for new IPs on a digitally distributed service. Yes, there are extra hoops, yes, MS has standards that are different than PSN/WW, but they still have the best userbase to make a profit from your game.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
