Microsoft's ID@Xbox program - which promotes independent games and allows developers to self-publish on Xbox One and Windows 10 - reached a major milestone this week.
During episode 709 of the official Xbox podcast with Larry Hryb and Jeff Rubenstein, ID@Xbox director Chris Charla revealed the program had helped shipped 2,000 games since its inception. What's perhaps even more impressive is the fact Microsoft has now paid out more than $1.5 billion in royalties to indie devs.
"We don't talk about money that often. But we announced it, we had paid out more than a billion and a half dollars in royalties to independent developers over that time. Which to me is just like a great milestone because it just shows how successful developers have been on Xbox. I mean, obviously, video games are a hit driven business. Not every game is a giant success but developers have had life changing amounts to success on the platform."
If you're wondering what the 2,000 game was - it was Swimsanity by Decoy Games. Here's a graphic of this milestone:
How many of these 2,000 games do you think you've played so far? Tell us down below.
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[source news.xbox.com]
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Woah Goat Simulator was funded by ID@Xbox? Was crazy about that game since trying it out on a friend’s PC.
This is pretty cool! 👍🏻
That’s actually impressive... usually stats like these I find useless because it tends to be “we paid this much to devs” but this is narrow enough to be impressive. 1.5 billion among 2000 games it’s about 3/4 a million per game. Sure there will be some performing above average and some under, but still a damned nice number.
Makes me want to pick back some projects I been procrastinating on...
I'm liking the Phil Spencer era of Microsoft Xbox. They see something succesful and they do the same. They see something unpopular and they don't do that. They ask what the consumer would want and they immediately offer it up in spades. Their games development end may get picked on, but they're offering up Ori, Cuphead and Senua; all which appeal to me more than what Sony and Nintendo offer ('cept Zelda and HZD). And to make matters better, Microsoft be like, "What's that brah? You don't have an XBOX? Ok, well, here we'll bring you, the consumer, our dope stuff on Switch and Playstation."
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