How will the Xbox LIVE Indie Games service differ from Xbox LIVE Arcade?
We expect Indie Games and Xbox LIVE Arcade to be complementary to one another. Indie 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 Indie 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 Indie Games won’t undergo a certification process and will not be a part of a managed portfolio. Xbox LIVE Indie 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, which is more than tw
