Mark of the Ninja was released on a Friday, and that’s when reviews and social networks were buzzing about the game. Yeah, Microsoft eventually gave Mark of the Ninja prominent placement on the dashboard, but like other media, games typically do their best business on the first day of release. If no one clicks on the advertisement to download Snow White and the Huntsmen, Microsoft still pockets the ad money. Promoting Mark of the Ninja might end up with more sales for Mark of the Ninja, and thus more profit for Microsoft, but it’s not a guarantee. And that’s where I'm guessing the rub is. It was, then, up to Microsoft to give up one of its likely lucrative advertisements slots for it. It was Microsoft’s decision to publish Mark of the Ninja on that day. (Though, good on Microsoft should for attempting to inform a demographic of the electorate that is historically finicky when it comes to voting.)Īds promoting Mark of the Ninja, a Microsoft-published release, were nowhere to be found on Friday, September 7. It’s frustrating, then, to turn on Xbox Live and see nothing but advertisements for movies and politics. That’s not as easy to do on Wii or PlayStation 3, and having to open a store will always mean some never see it. Microsoft should be applauded for crafting an interface that, while rightfully scrutinized in recent revisions, can prove useful to the user and creator, and help expose them to one another. Do you? We head to the games tab to purchase something we’ve already been convinced on.
This is what Xbox Live looked like the day after Mark of the Ninja launched on the service.īut who actually navigates to the games tab to learn about new content on Xbox Live? I don’t. Okay, that’s not completely true-it was on the games tab. When Mark of the Ninja was released on Friday, September 7, however, there wasn’t one. A look at Xbox Live’s front page over the past few weeks included a big, fat advertisement for Mark of the Ninja, quite possibly this year’s best release for the platform.
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