We’ve all heard of starving arts. Well what about starving game developers? It looks like that may be the new phrase in the UK. The French already have a tax credit of 20% off the total cost up to $3.91 million a year for a game with a cultural value. It looks like there are more to come in the UK.

My question, is this a good thing? Could we see games change over time, if the government is able to get their hand in on the action? Who knows we may even see a game where the French save London.

You can find the article at Businessweek.

I have to say, its a little disappointing to me that the price has not dropped. It could really help the 360 on the console war while at the same time hurting the other two systems but oh well I guess. (maybe they haven’t dropped price because they need to recoup all that lost money from all the broken 360’s that we have had)

as per GSB:

We’ve seen the coverage from Bloombergreporting a price drop by this holiday, and since I haven’t heard anything about a price drop, I thought I’d go right to the source. I asked David Hufford to clarify, and he sent me an email, and told me I could share it.

David writes (my emphasis and links):

“Some are getting really spun up about the Bloomberg story and inaccurately reading tea leaves that don’t exist. I spoke to Bloomberg nearly two months ago and we were talking about NPD data that had just been released, and chatting generally about price points of consoles in the market. The comment, which is accurately reported, unfortunately has now been taken way out of context and being reported as if I am signaling a price drop. I was not, I am not.

With Xbox 360s selling well at their current price point, Elites selling out at $479, and an insanely great portfolio of games in the market, there’s no reason to announce any kind of price drop anytime soon.

BTW, what’s up with the picture in Kotaku? What was I, like 12? Huff.”

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