Comments on: XNA will help Live “leapfrog” PSN and WiiWare, says Microsoft

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:54:42 +0000

Doesn’t really concern me… as long as the games are fun. =)

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:44:33 +0000

I have bought quite a lot of stuff on XBLA – worthwhile games – but very little of it is new or different. I’ve got quite a few titles from PSN which fit that category though.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:20:21 +0000

Oh, and demos of the games FFS.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:15:12 +0000

PSN is good, but it badly needs more titles. The ratio of good to bad is better on it right now… but there’s only 4 games I play on PSN vs 20 on XBLA.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:12:23 +0000

@Blerk It’s been happening since the launch of Opera. MS will leapfrog fuck all.

But I commend them for this project and I’m sure there will be some really good games along with all the 2D shooters and platformers.

Actually I’m not. But I would gladly be proven wrong.

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:33:40 +0000

Interesting choice of phrase “leapfrog”. Kind of implies you are behind already. I prefer the PSN stuff but that is a personal preference.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:29:00 +0000

pjmaybe: It isn’t MS that will be approving games in XNA. It’s other XNA developers.

By: kasai

kasai — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:18:05 +0000

Microsoft will no doubt ruin this by adding some extra subscription charge.

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:16:16 +0000

Lots of twin stick shooters, I predict.

Given the standard of XBLA titles that get passed for approval, one thing’s for sure, XNA should feature just about any old game regardless of quality

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:08:31 +0000

Yeah, there’s going to be a lot of junk… but I’m sure there will be some excellent new ideas too.

I’m loving these smaller games on XBLA, PSN and WiiWare. =)

By: Blerk

Blerk — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:06:44 +0000

The other consoles have access to Flash support though, don’t they? I can think of a very simple way for them to compete.

I’m quite looking forward to seeing what sort of stuff this brings out, actually. Although as usual, 99% of it will be complete crap.