Comments on: DIY games for the Xbox

Microsoft releases developer tools for creating Xbox games as part of a push to create a YouTube-equivalent for video gamers.

[rmiecznik]

Games access for young minds

I am not a games expert, don't even know how to make a game, but it seems like if MS wants to be a King with the potential in attracting young game developers to Xbox platform, why charge a fee for the game creation ?

youtube is free, they don't ask for any money, so I don't see how you can compare this with youtube.com

Maybe SONY will wisen up and offer a Educational Development Kit for free, so that people can burn their games to DVD and use it on any machine and not need special permission, for as long as they don't mass produce and sell them for profit.

Quote "Instead, developers will need to use the XNA Creators Club, a subscription-based service where gamers can debug, share and play each other's games on the Xbox 360. The club subscription, available in the U.S. via the Xbox Live Marketplace, is $49 for four months or $99 for the year."

[KTLA_knew]

Sure...

Yes, I'm sure we'll see a community game developer kit for PS3 and PC showing up any day now.

I have a hard time seeing Sony getting thier stuff together even in time for PS4, let alone any time in the next few years. I bet they are YEARS from releasing this kind of platform, if they ever do at all.

[Ryo Hazuki]

Readers misinterpretation to stories

Besides not being a games expert, you show not to be that great of a reader. Microsoft doesn't charge any fee to end-users like us for the game creation, only for their distribution through the Internet and Xbox Live.

[Charleston Charge]

Good Idea

People often forget that one of MS' strong points has always been their ability to attract developers. When it comes down to it, you can have the greatest platform of all time, but if you can't get the developers then the platform is meaningless.

[Ryo Hazuki]

Where are all the haters?

Where are all those Microsoft haters that say Microsoft never innovates and never comes up with anything new? Or those amusing Apple fanboys to say Apple came up with this 25 years ago and Microsoft is just copying it?