So I don’t feel emotional about this, that pretty much sums it up..
I think its cool that Microsoft are trying but I don’t believe it’s enough. Shame though because I think a load of educational games tied into an Xbox live type reward structure would be highly motivating and more motivating than a reward structure that is purely focused on Edu.
5 main barriers for Microsoft:
- WM7 has too much catchup to do on android
- WM7 doesn’t have a following of developers
- WM7 devices wont be as open as android
- The Xbox live market is pretty small (compared to Google owned farmville etc.)
- Lots of xbox live games just wont translate well to mobile (control/interface issues etc).
Will I be looking to develop some educational games for xbox live? Nah. I’d rather stick with Flash/HTML5 games and a free/open scoring/reward mechanism.
Further reading on xbox live on WM7 is available here.
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