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richardhutnik said:
BillyBOBMahog said:
So MS would take less profits as a publisher than a different publisher?

You might want to go look up how videogames were, pre-crash in the early 1980s.  You had companies release titles not only on their console, but on competitor consoles.  As a policy, I don't believe companies want games they published, when possible, to also appear on other consoles.  There was stuff like Age of Empires going on a handheld, but Microsoft didn't have a handheld.  A title like Ninja Gaiden gets a Sigma after it also, for example.

I was referring to this quote:

"It means if we want to release the game on XBLA we must throw, probably, most of the profit out of the window -- to the publisher. Just because we created Mac and Linux versions."

The implication here is that MS would have taken less of a chunk for publishing than a 3rd party.  In fact, I am not sure how your comments applied to what I said.