I will never understand why Xbox management ignored small developers during the development of the XO but they seem to have reversed course and are trying a lot harder now.
It just doesn't make any sense to me. They HAD to know what Sony was doing, it was all over social media. They'd been getting feedback about this for a long, long time with the 360. Was it simply a situation where they didn't think small developers mattered that much, that it was more important to keep everything hush-hush until after launch? Did they completely take them for granted, assuming that the XO would be on top and everyone would be begging for a spot?
I don't know, I really don't, but it feels an awful lot like hubris. They got beat on this front, pure and simple, and it was mostly their own fault.
