{"id":153,"date":"2008-05-22T18:12:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T02:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/?p=153"},"modified":"2008-05-26T23:12:25","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T07:12:25","slug":"xbox-live-arcade-potential-delist-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2008\/05\/xbox-live-arcade-potential-delist-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Live Arcade Potential Delist List"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the big story today is the Next-Gen interview with XBLA manager Marc Whitten<\/a>, where he states:<\/p>\n

In addition to allowing these bigger and better games we will be delisting older underperforming titles in order to keep the service focused on a section of high quality games.<\/p>\n

The way it will work is that the title will need to be at least 6 months old and have a Metacritic score below 65 and a conversion rate below 6% on the service.\u00c2\u00a0 This way titles are not just considered if they are not selling well or not getting good reviews, but actually a combination of both.\u00c2\u00a0 We will also give a three-month notice before delisting any title.\u00c2\u00a0 Overall I think you will find this will focus the catalogue more on larger, more immersive games and make it much easier to find the games you are looking for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Out of curiosity, I decided to compile a list of these poor performers, to see what kind of sweep we could<\/em> be looking at. Please keep in mind that this list is based only on metacritic scores.<\/strong> Conversion rate (the percentage of players who buy the full game after downloading the demo) will most definitely be one of the strongest factors in determining whether a game will be delisted from Xbox Live Arcade, and hard conversion numbers are very difficult to get ahold of. According to Microsoft<\/a>, the average conversion rate one year ago was 18%, with a high of 51% and a low of 4%. While we don’t know how much the numbers have changed, I’m guessing that it’s only going to be the very bottom<\/em> of the barrel that ends up affected. Don’t expect a mass cleansing of all the crap games from XBLA anytime soon.<\/p>\n

With that said, here’s the list.
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Xbox Live Arcade Title<\/strong><\/td>\nRelease Date<\/strong><\/td>\nMetacritic<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n<\/td>\n\n<\/td>\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aegis Wing<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n58<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arkadian Warriors<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Asteroids \/ Asteroids Deluxe<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bankshot Billiards 2<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Battlestar Galactica<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Battlezone<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\n52<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bliss Island<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boogie Bunnies<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\n54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brain Challenge<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\n54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Centipede & Millipede<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Contra<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crystal Quest<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cyberball 2072<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Defender<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n58<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dig Dug<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Discs of Tron<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\n44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Double Dragon<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ecco the Dolphin<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fatal Fury Special<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feeding Frenzy<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Frogger<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gauntlet<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Geon: Emotions<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gyruss<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hardwood Backgammon<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hardwood Hearts<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\n64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hardwood Spades<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mad Tracks<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marathon: Durandal<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Missile Command<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mr. Driller Online<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\n48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ms. Pac-Man<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New Rally-X<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Novadrome<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pac-Man<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robotron: 2084<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rocketmen: Axis of Evil<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\n57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rocky and Bullwinkle<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\n37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Root Beer Tapper<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n61<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rush’n Attack<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n58<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scramble<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Screwjumper!<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shrek-N-Roll<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Soltrio Solitaire<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SpongeBob … Slam!<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spyglass Board Games<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Street Trace: NYC<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Super Contra<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n61<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tempest<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tetris Splash<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Texas Hold ’em<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time Pilot<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TiQal<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\n58<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TotemBall<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Track & Field<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Triggerheart Exelica<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tron<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wing Commander Arena<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n51<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Word Puzzle<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Xevious<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yaris<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yie Ar Kung-Fu<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n51<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

My first take after reading over the list? Enough with the half-assed arcade ports already. With that<\/strong> said, some of the low rated arcade titles are much better games than the scores would infer. How do you review Pac-Man<\/strong>, anyway? What’s the metric? Does it have to stand on its own against a Gears of War<\/strong> or Bioshock<\/strong>, or are you only weighing the implementation of and additions to the original game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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