Spork -
Care to back up that statement with a list of games that "are making the same damn game"?
Name a few, please, go ahead.
As for the Jeff Minter comment (which was made months ago): Space Giraffe, if you didn't know, is very niche and unplayable for the general market. It sucks.. That is Mr. Minters fault, not XBLA. Judging by how well games around Space Giraffe's release it was an anomaly, and he's mad that crap games like Frogger can do better because it had a better demo, and better gameplay.
Plus Minter can't feel too bad about the XBLA service considering that Gridrunner+++ is coming out very soon on XBLA.