As someone who has never touched XBLIG as a dev or XNA, why do most of the games on XBLIG look so horrible? Is it just a bad SDK from Microsoft or can they just not attract top end development talent?
Low likelihood of profitability make putting a considerable budget behind an XBLIG game an irrational risk. Technically there is no reason you won't be able to make good looking games with xna (at least in 2d, not any worse than what you can get running on flash or iphone).
The "top end" developers mostly go straight to XBLA.
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As someone who has never touched XBLIG as a dev or XNA, why do most of the games on XBLIG look so horrible? Is it just a bad SDK from Microsoft or can they just not attract top end development talent?
Low likelihood of profitability make putting a considerable budget behind an XBLIG game an irrational risk. Technically there is no reason you won't be able to make good looking games with xna (at least in 2d, not any worse than what you can get running on flash or iphone).
The "top end" developers mostly go straight to XBLA.