The Behemoth (creators of Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers) have claimed that there is no digital marketplace which offers better volume of product and benefit to developers than Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade service.
John Baez (a developer of the record-smashing Castle Crashers game) recently spoke to the Official Xbox Magazine;
“I think without a doubt the indie console community would not exist as it does today if Xbox Live Arcade had been dropped after the original Xbox iteration. No other console hardware manufacturer has had the success of downloadable games that XBLA has had. And many smaller developers have shared in that success.”
It’s easy to understand that developers such as John Baez may feel like this, after all, Castle Crashers has sold millions and has even been ported to PSN and Steam due to its success on Microsoft’s platform. But is this just being bias due to the number of sales on XBLA compared to PSN and Steam?
[Source: Official Xbox Magazine UK via Gamespot]