Hypership out of Control Dev claims XBLIG has been buried by the new dashboard

XBLIG isn’t growing, developer claims

MCV Staff 6th February 2012 Consoles

Developer Kris Steele has posted a graph on his blog which he claims proves the Xbox Live Indie Games platform isn’t growing.

After the Xbox Live dashboard was redesigned, XBLIG was moved, and this has prompted some to claim the marketplace has been "burried".

The graph shows first day and first week trials for several of Kris’s games, which shows that his latest game, "Hypership Still out of Control" saw a marked decrease in the number of first day and first week trials.

Though Kris acknowledges there may be mitigating factors, he points out that after each tweak to the dashboard, his games have had fewer trials despite their having sold more actual copies.

He concludes:

"Ultimately I do not believe the XBLIG market is not growing. I believe these numbers show that. I believe the biggest factor is Microsoft’s burying of XBLIG. Even with Volchaos-like trials, I was not making enough sales to run a profitable game studio. Certainly with Hypership Still Out of Control trial downloads, I have no chance. And that’s why I’ve moved on."

Tags

About MCV Staff

Check Also

Jagex RuneScape with logo [Industry news] Jagex: The RuneScape Company Expands RuneScape:Dragonwilds In Asia, through Landmark Publishing Partnerships

[Industry news] Jagex: The RuneScape Company Expands RuneScape:Dragonwilds In Asia, through Landmark Publishing Partnerships

Jagex: The RuneScape Company, the iconic British games studio and creator of the legendary RuneScape franchise, today announced two major publishing partnerships that will bring RuneScape: Dragonwilds to Japan, South Korea and South East Asia. This represents the first time in Jagex’s 25-year history that a Jagex-developed game has been published in partnership with third-party regional publishers and is another milestone in the company’s transformational RS25 anniversary year.

© Copyright 2026, MCV. BizMedia