May 25, 2008 1
Recommended Reading: Microsoft Still Not Getting It
Chris Kohler of Wired’s Game|Life blog writes about Microsoft’s recent announcement that they’ll be cutting less popular games from their Xbox Live Arcade lineup. Kohler does a pretty good job of explaining how ridiculous this move is, given the nature of digital distribution; Microsoft is doing pretty much the opposite of what they should be doing, according to the logic of long tail economics.