Reactions: No New 360 Games Coming to Live’s Games on Demand Service

Notice the distinct lack of any new games?

Just as I expected when the service was first announced, Microsoft’s Shane Kim has confirmed that there will be no games being released on the new service day and date with their retail counterparts. “We’re not anywhere close to that world today,” said Kim.

Here’s all of what Mr. Kim had to say:

There are a lot of complex issues to deal with here, especially if you start talking about day-and-date release with retail availability—which is not something that we’re talking about at all, today. And publishers have to do some technical work in order to enable this. There will be decisions that publishers have to make from a business standpoint. But when it comes to us saying we want Games on Demand to enable day-and-date release of new titles, then there’s certainly a lot of work we would need to go through. We’re not anywhere close to that world today. We have great relationships with the retail channel—they’re important partners. We sell a lot of hardware and software through retail channels. We have to be smart about how we approach this business.

via Kotaku

Author: Ryan