Microsoft against indie games. Locks them out in favour of major publishers

[Onyxmeth]

shio said:

Onyxmeth said:

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Here's an idea. Find me 35 titles per year from indy developers on the 360 that are of Audiosurf, Zeno Clash and Mount & Blade quality and then we'll talk about this. Until then, I see 35 as a perfectly acceptable number since there are probably no more than 5 genuinely great indy titles per year from indy devs to begin with. Frankly, I can count the total number of indy titles on XBLA that are of Audiosurf quality on one hand, and I won't lift every finger, trust me.

Here's another idea, find me 35 titles from the big publishers on the 360 that aren't remakes and are on the same level as Audiosurf. I can't even think of one.

I don't have to. The burden of proof is on you. The topic is whether or not 35 indy releases per year is enough. It's not whether there are 35 big third party releases published on XBLA that are better than Audiosurf. I'm well aware of how good Audiosurf is, and my point was that XBLA barely has any indy devs at all putting out games of that quality, let alone over 35 per year. Either cough up 35 indy releases per year that are of good quality or simply concede that Microsoft is merely weeding out the trash.

Frankly, considering you likely don't have a 360 to begin with and probably don't know jackshit about what's on Xbox Live, this seems more like you yet again just trying to step all over a console to better your pro-PC agenda.