| thranx said: I dont see what they need to change. XBLA has some of the best games available for that kind of service, and if i'm not mistaken it outsells wiiware and psn by a lot. Sure there may be devs who complain, but oh well, as long as MS is getting the games on there and consumers are happy i dont care. From what I have seen MS really pushed those kind of games and forced sony and nintendo to do the same. |
Yes, they definitely did. Sometimes, though, when you're far in the lead, you lose your drive, while those behind you end up with a better product from trying to beat you.
Now we're starting over with a new generation. The 720 has no more market share than the PS4. In Ron Carmel's blog post about this, he theorized that there would be a slow migration away from XBLA as developers decided to go elsewhere first, be it Steam, or iOS, or even PSN. He believed that Microsoft would start losing all those exclusives that they had early in this generation, simply because experienced developers didn't like dealing with them and new developers were hearing bad things from those who were already established.
That we're already seeing a direct result of this with The Witness, with months left to go before either system releases, is interesting. The developer picked Sony to be the first console the game would appear on because he liked dealing with them a LOT more than the liked dealing with Microsoft. That's not heresay, it's something that has actually happened.
