In a recent interview with a Microsoft exec, joystiq got the lowdown on the XboxLive Arcade (you know the one thats releaseing a game every wednesday for 4 weeks… After the debacle with the prey being late (well not really late because Microsoft never released a date the company did stupidly.) If you’ve been paying attention the last 2 weeks the releases have gone off without a hitch on arcade with 2 titles already being released. (Cloning Clyde got a rave review over at xboxic) but how come they can keep to such a tight schedule on the arcade… well simple they have alot of games on the release schedule, picking 4 to release wasnt a big deal it just gave them structure as they point out in the following question from the interview.
Source: Joystiq (For the full interview)
* We hear that it takes quite a while for the approval process a game must go through in order to make it onto Xbox Live Arcade. Is this true and if so, how will it affect Microsoft’s ability to come through on the promise of at least one new XBLA game every Wednesday?
* The process does take a while. Some developers and publishers just underestimate the amount of time it takes in the approval process. As far as making sure games come out every Wednesday, that won’t be a problem. We have over 80 titles that are currently in development and have been cuing up releases in secret. What we’re doing with our new XBLA Wednesday program is merely bringing structure to the whole process.
