Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 14th Aug 2006 06:18 UTC
Microsoft's XNA Game Studio Express targetting the XBOX 360 will democratize game development by delivering the necessary tools to hobbyists, students, indie developers and studios alike to help them bring their creative game ideas to life while nurturing game development talent, collaboration and sharing that will benefit the entire industry.
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2006-04-10
"Microsoft seems to be really doing its best to attract and tie developers to their platform lately."
Its not a secret you know, they even say it themselves. The power lies in the developers. Microsoft just plays their cards right.
"...about academic institutions that are lining up to include XNA Game Studio Express in their course offerings". I wouldn't be surprised if this comes with all sorts of benefits for those institutions."
Well of course! They get cheep software, in which they can create games on consoles! That has _never_ been done before.
"Try to lure young developers to your platform, get them used to it, get them addicted to it..."
Microsoft must be drugdealers, according to your description? Excuse me, but that is just too paranoid.
"then if you make sure that the game libraries you use, are only available on your own platform(s)"
There are 3 players in the console-market. Why should the one be better than the other? Or do you mean the PC-games? If you dont count niche-markets, its only windows.
"then after some time you have a bunch of developers who are "tuned" ... since they never learned to use anything else. "
Whos fault is it, that they dont learn anything else?
Nothing stops Nintento or Sony to open up their software.. Right now they have nothing to open up, so lets see what they can bring into the fighting-ring when the match begins.