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User created games will help us beat out PSN and WiiWare, says MicrosoftDVDBack23 @ May 20, 2008 19:17 | 12 comments Now that Nintendo's WiiWare program has launched in Japan, the US and Europe and Sony's PSN is increasing in popularity, Microsoft has said that Xbox Live Arcade will "leapfrog" its competitors by using user created games.
First announced in February the "Community Games" initiative will allow professional and amateur developers to to create games for XBL.
"I certainly think from an innovation perspective it's going to help us leapfrog the competition, effectively until they find a way to duplicate it, assuming they ever do," stated David Edery, Xbox Live Arcade's worldwide portfolio planner.
"To some extent it will certainly help us have more innovative content than either of them, just by definition. With all this random stuff coming from the community, every once in a while there's going to be a real gem in there that you just couldn't have found otherwise, it wouldn't have found its way on to a console," he added.
Edery says the initiative should go live by the end of 2008.
"The example I always like to give is will someone finally make that scuba diving game, where there's really only 15,000 people interested in a hardcore scuba diving simulation, but they really, really want one? And maybe through XNA someone can profitably get one out there," he said.
"Today, there's not really a venue for that. I'm not going to green light a hardcore scuba diving game for Xbox Live Arcade today because there are not enough people who are interested in that. But with XNA it's perfectly possible.
"So I'm much more interested in it from a perspective of can it be used to satisfy more people, with more diverse content, than anything else," he finally added.
Edery also hopes the service will be used as a way to put out experimental games and ideas, and that the service will allow audiences and gamers to give feeback.
"Who knows, maybe a guy like Will Wright will spin out a game in three weeks, toss it out on XNA and see what happens.
"This could become a wonderful test bed and you'll start to see super-cool stuff coming from guys who wouldn't really have that opportunity to do that kind of test marketing," offered Edery. |
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Comment by: nobrainer (May 20, 2008 20:57) Quote: User generated content is the way forward, as long as its like the PC and FREE OF CHARGE, and not some anti-consumer approach like the current trend taken by the console makers, weapons or maps at an extra charge.
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Comment by: iluvendo (May 21, 2008 00:12) So is M$ going to scam all the game designers and hog all the profits for themselves ? If it wasnt for bad luck, Id have no luck!
"The flimsier the product,the higher the price" Ferengi 82nd rule of aquisition |
Comment by: rvinkebob (May 21, 2008 04:38) Originally posted by iluvendo: What to do you think? It's Microsoft.... |
Comment by: ZippyDSM (May 21, 2008 12:36) *dies ROTFLOL-ING*
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Comment by: bdoggie08 (May 21, 2008 16:03) GO VISTA!!! WHEW... |
Comment by: BludRayne (May 21, 2008 17:54) No way this content will be free, Microsoft is behind it. |
Comment by: magnets (May 22, 2008 02:37) the content will be free, just as it is now, sort of.
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Comment by: dab0ne (May 22, 2008 03:29) i dont know what is more amazing... the fact that microsoft charges for xbox live or the fact that people still pay for it. |
Comment by: lawndog (May 22, 2008 04:34) actually this news is a bit old, people have been using XNA to create games on the microsoft zune. Trust me they are real crappy games right now, but it was only realeased a couple weeks ago, and yes the games a compatable over to the 360.
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Comment by: rvinkebob (May 22, 2008 04:43) Actually, my sig is just barely acceptable. A mod told me to edit it a long while ago since it was 500x200 with 3 lines of text, so I just removed the text.
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Comment by: nobrainer (May 22, 2008 13:50) Originally posted by rvinkebob: that's going to be a real challenge, because linux is an open operating system, they have been blocked a licence to use blu-ray by aacs la, (al la sony and co) as it would open up ways to exploit the draconian DRM.
The BPI Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, EMI.
The RIAA Soundexchange Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, EMI. The IFPI Are: The same anti consumer lot as listed above! The MPAA Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, DISNEY, PARAMOUNT, FOX. |
Comment by: xtago (May 22, 2008 14:05) Originally posted by lawndog: C# isn't a program it's a programing language, which for windows isn't exactly free, XNA is free to download but from what I've read youcan't exactly go and dump up games for free on the 360 platform there's a price for the XNA games most as you said are crap, and most are just arcade game rip-offs such as pong, space invaders etc.
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