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Lafiel on 13 July 2010
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Barozi said:

I do because

1. It's a comparable game (it's not a Trials copy and I never claimed that)

 

2. similar quality (same Metascore)

3. it sold very well for a PSN game, just like Trials sold very well for an XBLA game

Both of which they couldn't have known by the time they made their decision to go PSN only, which he is explaining here.   

 

The highest chance to break even is a multiplat release.

They have been working for 2 years on a self-financed project, they probably had to release sth. to get some cash flow - multiplat development would've further lengthened the dev time especially for a team of 4 people, but maybe they'll do a 360 version now that they have funds and the recognition.

 

I'm not criticizing that the developer decided to put it on PSN instead of XBLA, I just criticize the way they're talking about XBLA, because like I said earlier, XBLA is way bigger games wise and even with a third party publisher, they would have made tons of money.
Sean Murray talks about the chances of a self published breakthrough game on XBLA, but he fails to see that his game would definitely count towards the "few" efforts of 200k plus sales.

So what exactly is he bitching about ?
"OMG we could have made some 200k extra sales with a XBLA release, thank god we didn't do that ! Now let's hate the XBLA platform, because other, less capable developers can't make millions of dollars with their mediocre games"

Of course the term "slaugtherhouse" is a strong and maybe offensive one, but I don't think he "hated" on XBLA. I think he just wanted to clarify how they felt when they received those stats (which are not official, but they believe them to be "realistic", no idea if they really are) and their fear to be "slaughtered" if their work didn't receive a high eighties, but maybe a seventies meta. I mean of course they had some feedback, but do you really know it will be reviewed that highly?

Your characterization of him is quite sad. 

 

and for the last part... who are you to defend them for that decision ? Ah right, just what I thought....

I like to think of myself as someone who thinks decisions others made through, if that makes me a "Sony fanboy" or whatever in your view, then so be it, I couldn't care less.