How will the Xbox LIVE Community Games service differ from Xbox LIVE Arcade?
We expect Community Games and Xbox LIVE Arcade to be complementary to one another. Community Games will be an outlet for the masses to experiment and create the quirkiest, most irreverent games imaginable on a console, while Xbox LIVE Arcade will continue to consistently feature the refined, polished, casual arcade games. When we launch Xbox LIVE Community Games later this year, we’re going to be opening up the platform to absolutely anyone who has a dream to create their own game and publish it for millions to play on Xbox 360. While Xbox LIVE Arcade remains a managed portfolio with a limited number of publishing slots, Xbox LIVE Community Games won’t undergo a certification process and will not be a part of a managed portfolio. Xbox LIVE Community Games will be managed entirely by the community. We are pioneering the way for an entirely new segment of game developers, unlike any other next-gen games console. This will allow us to offer more than 1,000 games by the end of this year, w
