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Indie RPG Struggles On Xbox, Yet Thrives On Steam

Posted by Soulskill on from the location-location-location dept.

derGoldstein writes "Two weeks ago Robert Boyd started offering his two RPGs Breath of Death VII and Cthulhu Saves the World on Steam, for $2.99 (for both games combined). It fared far better than it had on the Xbox Live Indie channel: 'In less than a week, our Steam revenue has actually exceeded over a year and a half of XBLIG revenue for us.' Hopefully this will prompt more developers to port 'smaller' games over to Steam, especially since many of them can run on low-spec machines, like netbooks."

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  1. Comes down to promotion I think. by Kenja · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Steam seems far friendlier to indie games. I saw these titles on the front page of the Steam store. I expect they are far harder to find on XBox Live.

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    1. Re:Comes down to promotion I think. by i+kan+reed · · Score: 3, Interesting

      No, actually the problem is the opposite. Independent games on steam seem to have some sort of quality control, whereas xbox indie games include a ton of trash that block out the decent items.