Xbox Live Arcade creator, Greg Canessa believes that Microsoft should bring it back to Xbox One. Greg said this to IGN on why it should return:
“First of all, bring back the brand,” he said. “I think that is probably the most financially, commercially successful brand—at least in the last ten years of consoles—that has been decommissioned,” he added, calling it “a multi-hundred-million-dollar brand with tons of equity amongst 50 million gamers.”
Canessa went on to express his bewilderment in why there isn’t a dedicated XBLA destination in the Xbox One dashboard, saying it would be “easily fixable.” He also spoke to the value of curation, offering a demo with every game, and having a specific destination where it would be easy to discover and spotlight new games, urging Microsoft to bring back Summer of Arcade and XBLA Wednesdays.
The XBLA creator believes the brand would serve as a “huge point of distinction” and “help balance out the advantage that Sony has right now.”
Xbox Live Arcade is a digital video game download service available through the Xbox Games Store, Microsoft’s digital distribution network for the Xbox 360. It focuses on smaller downloadable games from both major publishers and independent game developers.
What are your thoughts on all this? Could it have an impact on Xbox One?







