{"id":4486,"date":"2008-06-05T15:59:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T22:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4486"},"modified":"2013-03-13T17:33:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T00:33:13","slug":"msft-says-xbla-needed-trim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/msft-says-xbla-needed-trim\/","title":{"rendered":"MSFT Says XBLA Needed Trim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6157\" alt=\"xbox-live-arcade-xbla-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/xbox-live-arcade-xbla-S.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" \/>JUNE 5, 2008 \u2022 Microsoft Entertainment product management director Aaron Greenberg told MTV that the division was not happy with the difficulty in finding titles available via Xbox Live Arcade, which led to a recently imposed de-listing policy.\u00a0 \u201cI think a lot of that is we built Xbox Live Marketplace for a few hundred items and now we have 17,000 items,\u201d Greenberg said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: Xbox Live Marketplace has sold over $250 million worth of content and is clearly receiving a great deal of consumer interest.\u00a0 However, now is the time where Microsoft needs to decide whether Marketplace is going to be a free-for-all swap meet with a buyer beware philosophy or like a more tightly controlled retail store where consumers can feel more comfortable about the quality of items for purchase.\u00a0 Console systems have always kept a comparatively tight control over what is released for the platform and that is part of their attraction to mainstream consumers.\u00a0 Under this perspective a de-listing policy makes complete sense.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNE 5, 2008 \u2022 Microsoft Entertainment product management director Aaron Greenberg told MTV that the division was not happy with the difficulty in finding titles available via Xbox Live Arcade, which led to a recently imposed de-listing policy.\u00a0 \u201cI think a lot of that is we built Xbox Live Marketplace for a few hundred items [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6156,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions\/6156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}