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Microsoft have announced that they are no longer going to charge developers to patch their games. To me, that's huge. This was a big sticking point for me that I didn't mention earlier. I just stopped believing that Xbox was going to get the types of amazing small developer games that made Live Arcade so fucking awesome this gen. Developers were sick of not being able to fix problems without shelling out 40 grand, and a lot of them started moving away from the platform. Double Fine, for instance, was one of the studios that made Live Arcade for me. But they have almost completely quit developing for the platform now because it's just such a pain in the ass. If they can convince indie developers to keep making games for them, and also not force me to be online to use the damn thing, I may end up getting one. Eventually.