Homebrew XBox Apps: The YouTube of Games
They’re trying to compare the service to YouTube, but this seems a bit more like the blasted reaches of SourceForge where the least-frequented projects lie gathering dust.
The games can run on both XBox and PC, depending on the compiler used, and won’t be publicly available – imagine 500 homebrew versions of Custer’s Revenge – although MS is looking forward to launching a few amateur apps, thereby reducing their development costs to zero.
Clearly this is a viable and interesting model and the barrier to entry is fairly low, so everyone and their dog can get in on this thing early. Interestingly enough – and I’ve always been a big PS3 proponent – I can’t imagine Sony even considering this sort of thing, to their detriment.
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