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Most of you read or at least heard the Next-Gen interview with Marc Whitten where he revealed some Xbox Live Arcade games will be delisted. The article sparked quite a bit of discussion like Game|Life’s intelligent piece on long tail economics and GameSetWatch’s excellent devil advocate’s opinion regarding artificial scarcity.
Gamerscoreblog, written by actual Microsoft employees, confirms the criteria for delisting. Games that have a Metacritic score of 65% or less, been on Xbox Live Arcade for over six months and have a demo to purchase ratio of less than 6% might be pulled from the Xbox Live Arcade catalog.
The conversion ratio is the “wildcard” factor. Microsoft has never revealed this data, but just to get some idea of what games could be delisted I went through Metacritic to make two lists. The first is for games over six months old. The second reveals what games might be delisted in the future.
The potential delist list:
Crystal Quest
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe
Hardwood Hearts
Fatal Fury Special
Contra
Marathon: Durandal
Missile Command
Time Pilot
Track & Field
Hardwood Backgammon
Hardwood Spades
Pac-Man
Frogger
Mad Tracks
Root Beer Tapper
Super Contra
Geon: Emotions
Soltrio Solitaire
Rush'n Attack
Aegis Wing
Defender
Rocketmen: Axis of Evil
Double Dragon
Xevious
Gyruss
Asteroids / Asteroids Deluxe
Centipede & Millipede
Spyglass Board Games
Tetris Splash
Ecco the Dolphin
Yie Ar Kung-Fu
Wing Commander Arena
Novadrome
Shrek-N-Roll
Scramble
Sonic the Hedgehog
Street Trace: NYC
TotemBall
Word Puzzle
New Rally-X
Cyberball 2072
Screwjumper!
Yaris
The potential delist list of the future:
Arkadian Warriors
Tempest
Tron
Boogie Bunnies
Discs of Tron
Triggerheart Exelica
Bliss Island
Brain Challenge
TiQal
Mr. Driller Online
Battlezone
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Is there anything here that you would miss?
Images courtesy of Warashi and Namco Bandai.
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8 Responses to “These are the Xbox Live Arcade games (possibly) eligible for delisting”
May 26th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
@EdgeKun - Delisting means you won’t be able to browse around the Xbox Live Arcade interface and find the games. As of this point, it sounds like it means you won’t be able to purchase them either. Perhaps, Microsoft will include a “search” feature as a compromise to let users who really want to purchase say Triggerheart Exelica find it on their own.
May 26th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Retarded. Make a clearance/bargain/archive section, move the titles there, and lower their prices permanently. Do they just not care about sales, or what?
May 27th, 2008 at 4:28 am
This is disgusting. I will buy a 360 at some point, specifically for games like Exelica. This is a lack of respect for the companies who worked on making the 360 what it is, as well as to the future 360 owners. They’re essentially creating rarity on downloadable titles.
May 27th, 2008 at 4:58 am
From what I understand, these games will still be available for purchase through recommendations from people on your friendslist as well. Honestly though, this is another nail in the XBLA coffin. First they kill the indie stuff, and now the cool commercial stuff, what next?
I can’t believe Marathon is on the list…
May 27th, 2008 at 5:20 am
i like exelica. i bought it the day it released. too bad not so many others liked it. i would have thought xbla to be the perfect place for games like this. if lesser-known shooters can’t have a quiet place like xbla to await purchase at a reasonable price, they may actually be pushed out of the american market again since no one wants to pay between 30 and 60 for them as retail disc-based games.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Personally, I disagree with the whole concept, and I hope that Nintendo and Sony (specially Nintendo) don´t follow this idea.
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May 26th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
What exactly defines delisting? Does it mean it’s no longer available for purchase, and just download by those who purchased it before delisting?
I for one have greatly wanted to get Exelica, but don’t have the funds yet to pick up a 360. Needless to say, I’ll be extremely pissed if I get a 360 only to discover Triggerheart no longer available for purchase. (I’d rather not pay 90+ $ for a copy on my Dreamcast)