XBLA is a "slaughterhouse" for smaller developers

[mrstickball]

Lafiel said:

mrstickball said:

...The fact his venom is mis-placed?

He never praised the PSN market...Only attacked XBLA. He wasn't arguing from a position of strength by explaining 'PSN is better because of X, Y and Z', only that XBLA was bad because of A, B and C.

venom?

he (probably) was asked "why not on XBLA?" and he gave his/his teams reasoning why going with PSN was the better decision - I don't know where he pulled his stats from and whether or not they are correct and it doesn't even matter, for all that matters is, that in his view they are "realistic" and that is his reason for going for PSN.

I don't know where you want to see "venom" in that.

Out of 3 possible routes he/they chose the one that seemed the least risky, because they invested 2 years and undoubtedly a lot of money to realize this project and if it failed who knows what would have happened to the guys?

I'd say there is some venom when you argue that XBLA is a slaughterhouse for small development studios...That doesn't seem very friendly to a service you could be publishing on :-p

I'm not arguing that going with PSN was the wrong route to go - given his choices, I would of gone with PSN first as well. Not because of being against XBLA, but because there is no comparible game in the PSN space...Had Trials not existed, then that would be very different. However, given any choice, I would of self-published on both PSN and XBLA, and sell about 300,000 copies on PSN (which is where its trending in the near term) and 150,000 copies on XBLA.