News: XBLC games not "financially viable"

“Market is too small,” says Clover dev. Clover developer Binary Tweed believes the Xbox Live Community Games market is too small to be “financially viable”, and that the service’s only use is as an “arena for proving concepts”. “It’s a shame to say that Clover has not sold as many copies as we’d hoped for. As it stands, through Community Games alone, we definitely won’t recoup costs,” Binary Tweed boss Daniel Jones told Digital Spy. “Frustratingly enough, the critical reception to the game has been good,” he added, as if reading Eurogamer’s Clover review aloud. “The size of the XBLCG market is prohibitively small to be financially viable, so I can only see it being of use to Binary Tweed as an arena for proving concepts.” Read more…

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News: XBLC games not "financially viable"