Microsoft plans "community-powered arcade"

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(they'll work with universities),

Shame this is an American $ kinda thing!

and helping grow the audience to match industry growth (new ideas mean new gamers).

Now that has a very Nintendo-esque ring to it indeed, especially since Nintendo announced that their Virtual Console download service will allow indie developers to produce very simple games and deliver them to peoples Wii through Nintendo's Nintendo24 Connect service Just replace the Nintendo24 Connect with Xbox Live and Virtual Console with Xbox Live Marketplace and Wii with Xbox360 and ta-da! It's the exact same thing lol

But it is good to know that companies like this are looking for other ways to get new games onto their system without the million dollar dev kits and costs companies need to produce games with today! Almost makes me going through uni a complete waste of time!