Microsoft 'idiotic' for ceding Xbox indie community

Last five years of Xbox 360 have been painful to watch, says founding engineer Nat Brown

Microsoft has been idiotic for its lack of support toward the indie development sector on Xbox 360, one of the hardware's founding engineers has said.
Speaking on a blog post, Nat Brown said it had been painful to watch the Xbox over the last five years, and felt Microsoft had been coasting on past momentum of the Xbox, and was failing to innovate or capitalise on technical innovations such as its motion sensing peripheral Kinect.

He also claimed that the computing giant was touting market success while it was just experiencing Sony and Nintendo's "stumbling failures", and had a complete lack of understanding on how to take advantage of living room gaming in the long-term.
Brown criticised Microsoft's ecosystem for small and indie developers, who have found it increasingly difficult to make money on XBLIG in particular, with many even leaving Xbox for good.
He said that all this was going on while Microsoft was driving forward with its plans to enter the TV entertainment sector and was partnering with "big dying media companies when their core product, their home town is on fire, their soldiers, their developers, are tired and deserting, and their supply-lines are broken".

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