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Comment by cpleppert

13 years ago

No because microsoft isn't going to support a toolkit it has no intention of using on mobile or the desktop and will never be used by commercial game developers.

Are you aware there was a Premium version of XNA for AAA studios?

  • As far as I know, the XDK Extensions were intended for XBLA developers, not "AAA studios".

    • It was announced in a different way at a Meltdown or PDC conference, around 2008 if I am not mistaken.

      Sadly those videos seem to no longer be online after MSDN was redone.

      Maybe someone can correct me if I am wrong.

"a toolkit it has no intention of using on mobile or the desktop"

Right, I find it likely that XNA was killed to work on a better toolkit for all three.