Anybody else hyped about the new public XNA Dev tools?

[Shad0wHacker]

It's all here

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6155590.html?q=XNA

[Lazy Bastard]

That looks pretty impressive.

[MathUser]

I've tried a gamemaker tool before, it was a bit too complicated for me to get into right away, but I've seen some good games made with it. Perhaps this will bring back 2d sidescrollers a bit. Cause those would probably be the easiest to make. Plus as the article said, we may start to see some innovation.

[LiquidManZero]

It's an interesting idea... I'm sure that microsoft isn't letting this sort of thing out without some plans for profiting involved. I have a feeling they're doing this partly to combat the supposed homebrew friendly environment ps3 is supposedly going to end up.

[Shad0wHacker]

Well, $99 a year gets you into the creators club, and allows you to have a public sales protocol and allows your Games to become commercial Xbox 360. You could always get picked up by a developer though!!

Another thing I would like to mention, but haven't found, is that the Demo they showed of this Hardware creating a game, rivaled Burnout 3 in terms of sheer speed and quality. It was simply a choice of car dragging straight into a wall.

[LiquidManZero]

There will likely be some interesting things coming out made with this, but it just really seems like they're trying to give people a reason to go out and buy an xbox 360 with a hard drive.

[Shad0wHacker]

Sony is trying to be all Dev'r friendly by using linux... it's just going to get hackzord

[MathUser]

Maybe after some of those games start coming out I will have to get a xbox 360. I'm eager to see what will be made with it.

[Shad0wHacker]

Well, I got my 360 the other day... and i'm quite happy with it. They were on sale.... $60 off.