XNA Framework - Brilliant or Bust?

[Mecharius]

Hey guys...
Just noticed this (http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/xna/) whilst downloading c++ express to put on a mac laptop running windows. *

Looks interesting, although you have to pay $99 to play your games (its free to develop them, you just have to pay to play!)

So what do you think?

[shurijo]

You pay 99$ to get your game downloadable to others 360s via whatever the xbox 360 network thing is called. You can play your game on Windows boxes for free.

Its written for the .NET CLR, so you'll need to use C# (to start, VB.NET to follow).

I think its great, there's another thread on this started a few days ago.

[Joe_Oliveri]

It's going to be great I am really excited.[/list]