No Farmville For Xbox
Farmville’s creators apparently have little interest in seeing their popular app on the Xbox Live. The reason? Not enough people have an Xbox 360.
According to IndustryGamers, Zynga's chief game designer Brian Reynolds has said that the Xbox community is simply not big enough to warrant their attention.
"The thing that seems to make social gaming and networking magical is the fact that all my friends are potentially there and they might see the things that I'm posting or doing or expressing," he reasoned, according to the site. "[Xbox Live's] too small a demographic. Think about, of my friends, how many of them own an Xbox 360? Well, I'm a game developer and I even come from a triple-A space so we might even be in the double digits... 20 or maybe even 30 per cent of my friends might have an Xbox 360, but effectively 100 per cent of them have Facebook and effectively 100 per cent of them have a mobile phone. Of them, probably 90 per cent have a smartphone.”
Logical as he may think that sounds, it’s a fact that over 50 million Xbox 360 console have been sold. Almost half of them are currently linked to Xbox Live. Of course, Farmville boasts over 60 million users, but to say that the opportunity to potentially grow their business by nearly 50% is simply not worth the effort seems quite strange.
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