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The Financials of Xbox Live

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday September 19, 2006 @10:31AM from the bucks-from-points dept.

Via GameSetWatch, a post exploring the cost and payoff from an Xbox Live game. From the article: "Let's say you are a publisher or a developer that is able to fund your own development, so, a $10 game (800 Gamer Points) would net you $6.50, or 120,000 units * $6.50 per unit = $780,000. Again, if you are a starving Indie developer this sounds like an infinite amount of money. But, in the world of publishers, this is not considered a big hit."

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To be pointlessly anal... by Blakey+Rat · 2006-09-19 10:57 · Score: 4, Informative

This article refers to a Xbox Live Arcade game. Not a regular game that happens to support Xbox Live.

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Re:Nice new first rung on the ladder for a develop by Tim+Browse · 2006-09-19 10:59 · Score: 4, Informative

To go from:
Next you can do maybe a budget title with a respectable publisher.

to:
Do a good job, you have self-generated the capital to do the blockbuster.

indicates you have much to learn about the games industry, and in particular, how publishers treat developers that are not already cash rich.
Re:Arcade broadens Xbox 360 development options by trdrstv · 2006-09-20 02:42 · Score: 2, Informative

I think Microsoft should allow games that are as large as 512 MB.
The reason MS put a cap at 50 MB per live game is they sell a 64 meg memory card. They want all users to be able to buy at least 1 game, and have room for save files. It also doens't hurt that with a 50 meg cap you can buy/store a crap load on the 20 gig Hard drive.