{"id":1262,"date":"2006-09-24T20:48:39","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T20:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2006-09-24T20:48:39","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T20:48:39","slug":"xbox-live-arcade-microsofts-real-trojan-horse-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1262","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Live Arcade: Microsoft&#8217;s real trojan horse, part II."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that post I made earlier about Xbox Live Arcade being Microsoft&#8217;s killer app?  There&#8217;s been a spate of other posts made recently over at GarageGames that back my theory up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Make It Big In Games  \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd Blog Archive   \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd How Much Money Can Your XBox360 Live Arcade Game Make?\" href=\"http:\/\/makeitbigingames.com\/blog\/?p=35\">How Much Money Can Your XBox360 Live Arcade Game Make?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/makeitbigingames.com\/blog\/?p=34\">XNA Game Studio Express Doubters Get It Wrong<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/makeitbigingames.com\/blog\/?p=20\">How Much Money Can Indie Games Make?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To be fair, GarageGames is currently building a CodeWarrior-style developer&#8217;s environment for XNA (the Xbox dev language) so they&#8217;re not <i>100%<\/i> unbiased, but I&#8217;m willing to drink their Kool-Aid if it means the democratization of game development.<br \/>\nFurther, none other than Raph Koster delivered a major <a title=\"Gamasutra - AGC: Koster  Says Game Industry Dinosaur 'Doomed'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=10803\">doom-and-gloom scenario<\/a> at the Austin Game Conference (which I&#8217;m still annoyed I had to miss this year) that&#8217;s reflective of the general doom-and-gloom scenario that Chris Weaver delivered to his game development class here at MIT in the Spring.  Apparently the games industry is so hit-driven it&#8217;s even worse than Hollywood &#150; <i>way<\/i> worse than Hollywood, because there&#8217;s little to no second or third wave of income, unlike the cinema-DVD-rental-cable series of income waves built into the movies.  Theoretically, a system like Xbox Live Arcade could destory the &#8216;shelf space crisis&#8217; built into the current distribution system and make it easier to deliver more &#8216;long tail&#8217; properties like 2D side-scrollers (*cough*Castle Crashers*cough*).  Keep your fingers crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that post I made earlier about Xbox Live Arcade being Microsoft&#8217;s killer app? There&#8217;s been a spate of other posts made recently over at GarageGames that back my theory up: How Much Money Can Your XBox360 Live Arcade Game Make? XNA Game Studio Express Doubters Get It Wrong How Much Money Can Indie Games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-km","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}