News - Windows Phone 7 released to manufacturers

[directhex]

XNA has been around for a while now, there are games on the xbox market place which can run on the WP7 platform with minimal adjustments (if they happened to be written by someone with a crystal ball obviously). as such the launch day games should be OK, but with the tie in to xbox live this could well become the gamers mobile phone.

Plenty of XNA games on iPhone.

[TheAnimus]

I didn't think they had a tie in to the xbox live, and I thought that it was a quite involved re-write to port them across?

If MS are able to increase the value of an investment, by allowing leverage on multiple platforms with minimal effort or extra cost....