Developers Like Wiiware, XBLA Full Of Crap
Nintendo has made it very clear to us that we’ll not only be making a better royalty rate from WiiWare games, but we’ll also have a better chance of selling games – the service won’t be clogged up with the retro titles that have blighted the chances of many independent studios on Xbox Live Arcade,” said one studio business development boss, speaking to Develop under conditions of anonymity.Added another WiiWare developer, who also didn’t want to be named: “Frankly, we’re not looking at making games for Xbox Live Arcade because the service is full of shit,” he said, pointing towards the service’s number of retro remakes.
March 14, 2008
i sort of agree, some of the titles are good like Doom, Geometry Wars and Castlevania. But there are also a lot of crappy games out there also. And it is true that the majority of their library of XBLA are remakes of retro games with enhanced sprites