I did some reading into the whole X-Box Live Treasure shooter thing. Found something a bit more concrete at 1Up.com. I'd like to play Radiant Silvergun in some form that wouldn't break my wallet. I think any player's top concern should be sharing the experience with other players, not necessarily breaking even on an investment. Kind of symbolic of why other interests look down on "gamers." I know many readers who will give books away, but given the price of the hobby... it isn't too realistic to expect a player to give a game away or purchase a game for another person.
Not that it doesn't happen. Because when it does, well, shit, fucking awesome.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3156213
And in case you just want to skip to the point:
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1UP: So when will we finally see your 360 project?
MM: I can't talk much about it yet, but I will say that it's an original shooting title and that it won't be released for a while. I hope we can start showing and talking about it soon, though.
1UP: A lot of Treasure fans are wondering if the game will be in the style of Radiant Silvergun or Ikaruga. Can you comment on that?
MM: It's actually still early enough in the project that we don't yet know how similar it will be to those games. I'm thinking we'll probably want to go in a bit of a new direction now, though.
1UP: But it's at least still a top-down shooter, right?
MM: Yeah. We'll use really great 3D graphics but it will retain the 2D gameplay people love.
1UP: So is this the same team that did Ikaruga?
MM: Yes, the same director and team.
1UP: So would you consider it a new game in Radiant Silvergun "series"? Even though Ikaruga wasn't technically a sequel to Radiant Silvergun, it was the spiritual successor.
MM: I would say no, actually. I know what you mean about Ikaruga being a spiritual successor and I would have to say that this game is totally different.
1UP: Is Microsoft publishing the game?
MM: That is still to be decided, but they would be our first choice to publish it.
1UP: Are they at least helping with the game's development, financially or otherwise?
MM: It's actually too early for those sorts of discussions with them - we haven't even shown them the working demo yet - so right now we're doing everything on our own.
1UP: So in terms of developing on Xbox 360, who approached who first? Did Microsoft come to you and say they would like you to work on their platform or did you approach them?
MM: Microsoft approached us and were very keen to work with us, and later we showed them a concept that they were very excited about.
1UP: Will it be a retail game or are you thinking it could be a downloadable title?
MM: I can't really say since we still need to figure out the business strategy with the publisher, but we're definitely thinking of this being a retail title. We actually want to do something else for Live Arcade, too. Personally, I'm really interested in Live Arcade, and I really want to do something for it - but it depends on whether it'll make sense to do another completely original project just for that.
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