Welcome to todays ‘Spot The Irony’ competition in which you – yes you – could win nothing at all. The backstory: Team Meat (the guys behind Super Meat Boy) had a bit of a whinge at Microsoft for failing to promote their game. Sales were low, Microsoft refused to help out.
Step forward Guillaume Boucher-Vidal, Studio Manager at Nine Dots Studio Inc, a chap who recently left Activision and has said ‘I think that the Super Meat Boy team is just being loud crybabies’. He then continues,
Microsoft’s XBLA is very strict, and their technical requirements represent about 800 man hours from the programming team to adapt to. PSN doesn’t have those kind of requirements, but at the same time, PSN is an almost complete failure in regards to sales, so they have to find a way to cater to developers somehow, and they do so by having very low standards.
Nine Dots Studios Inc are currently working on a side scrolling platformer called ‘Brand’ which you will be very unsurprised to discover will only be released on the Xbox 360 Indie channel.
A quick look at the best selling Indie games on Xbox 360 in the UK reveals the top three places being taken by Minecraft rip offs and at number four is ‘Angry Fish’ – you can guess what title that looks like. A few places down we find a ‘game’ that makes prank phone calls.
What was that about ‘low standards’ on the PSN, Mr. Boucher-Vidal?
Source: IndustryGamers
Radiitz
Sega Net is better ;)
Awayze
Typical Xbox twat.
Well at least the PSN is prettier than Xbox marketplace.
Awayze
Talking about XBL and PSN, where’s the article on XBL being down?
You seem to post an article as soon as you get a hint of PSN going down but when XBL is actually down, you don’t post anything.
skibadee
must admit I was wondering why there is never a Xbox down article.
The Lone Steven
How dare the developers of Super Meat Boy complain that MS didn’t help them out when they needed the extra support. HOW DARE THEY!
I didn’t get the memo saying that PSN is a failure.*looks at his many purchases and downloads from PSN*. weird, it’s almost as if it is successful and a load of people have brought a load of stuff from it over the past year. It must be my crazy mind playing up again then.
PSN has it’s faults but so does XBL. PSN titles will have most of the time lower sales as chances are that they would have been released months before and some gamers own both consoles.
Kamokazi-UK
Being able to use real money on the PSN means its a win with me…perhaps he’s talking about all those ‘points’ people end up buying?
fattyuk
Never understood the whole points system? bullshit baffles the brain and I’m sure that’s why they went with it.
Reminds me of a Simpsons episode with itchy and scratchy land and the fake money just for the park….. dunno why it reminds me of that!
yogh_wayne
Developers can be fanboys too.