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Rare on Xbox Live Arcade profitability

Speaking at the Develop conference this week, Rare's Nick Burton said that while Xbox Live Arcade titles may not offer huge returns, they can provide a "small but reasonable" revenues on a constant basis.

"When asked by an audience member if [Jetpack refuelled] was a commercial success Burton replied, "If you want to measure it in success in that we broke even - we're in the black, so that's good."

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Balance - 857 days 23 hours ago

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like regular games it depends on how good a game it is also. texas hold'em for example, i bet that developer is way in the black for that project, uno also.

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beardtm - 857 days 22 hours ago

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new games like Geometry Wars and Proper remakes of old games like Prince of Persia are cool.

I cant be dealing with crappy ports like sonic/street fighter 2 which look terrible.

Must have took Sega hmm lemme think, a whole 15 mins to put Sonic onto live arcade?

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kewlkat007 - 857 days 22 hours ago

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3 - Yeah how come

Rare has not put Killer Instinct on there as well and some donkey Kong games. Unless Nintendo has some thing to do with it?

If Xbox live arcade got the game Nintendo Wii got on their VC plus the original stuff, I wouldn't purchase VC games anymore.

The VC games on the Wii are the Exact ports with no updated graphics or gameplay modes but they sure are selling on there. Some of the Xbox live arcade games do update and add some features, with online-play mode and such but they do not have the selection Nintendo has.

How does Nintendo do it, I don't know..

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Daewoodrow - 857 days 22 hours ago

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Seeing as Donkey Kong Country is a childhood favorite of mine, I couldn't agree more, but unfortunately when Microsoft bought Rare they couldn't get the rights to Donkey Kong, apparently Nintendo wanted that too much.

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sajj316 - 857 days 22 hours ago

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There has been commercial success with other games, its very possible. You can't expect every Live Arcade game to be a commercial success. Porting Sonic is also not the answer. Its not the quantity of arcade offerings but the quality.

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Chexd - 857 days 22 hours ago

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I actually thought sonic was the only retro title worth playing. It really felt it hasnt dated but as for all the otehrs...New games is what I want to play. Geometry Wars is still the best game on the arcade imo.

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Balance - 857 days 22 hours ago

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i would really like to see some more "party" type games on xbl arcade... monopoly, risk, black jack, you know those games you enjoy playing the hell out of but are hard to get that many people to get together and stay sober long enough to finish.

add my vote to killer instinct +online play. that would be awsome.

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boi - 857 days 22 hours ago

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well monopoly, risk,are best play on board :D

but yea Killer Instinct will be great...man i remember first time playing KI..i got my asskick in that game haha

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Emmo - 857 days 21 hours ago

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6.2 - More party and board games please

Totally agree, I love Catan and backgammon.

More party and board games on XBLA please.

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sticky doja - 857 days 21 hours ago

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7 - I want Goldeneye on Arcade...

With online that game would sell by the millions

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Odion - 857 days 21 hours ago

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lol ya Jetpack refueled blew, however other games sell like hot cakes.

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Icewake - 857 days 19 hours ago

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9 - Nintendo owns Donkey kong country\

I believe when Rare left Nintendo was the one who was able to keep Donkey kong Ip and Rare was getting Perfect dark and Conkers. I really wish (though it would never happen) that they would put conkers bad fur days multiplayer on there. Just the multiplayer, sense live and reloaded was the original single player, but ruined multiplayer. I also think Nintendo owns the right to the goldeneye 64, I heard they were going to put it on their VC.

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nirwanda - 857 days 16 hours ago

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10 - Please Mr Molyneux

team up with EA (who own bullfrog) and remake a HD populous 2 it carn't cost that much and not many people played it networked also geoff crammond stunt car racer online would be good too.

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Any BK 3 updates any one?

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