PSN, Live Arcade "still in infancy"

Third party developer Capcom has claimed that downloadable services are "still in their infancy" and limit the possibility of certain games.

Director of production Adam Boyes said Xbox Live and PlayStation Network title Talisman, based on a board game, was cancelled due to the poor social atmosphere online.

"We looked at the other games on XBLA and PSN and realised that very few people were willing to sit and play a game for more than an hour," Giant Realm quotes him as saying.

"With a regular Talisman match coming in between three to five hours, this created an issue with how we would make the game fun and engaging for that whole time."

He added: "This brings us one thing that we again failed to realise as PSN and XBLA were still in their infancy. Complex board games like Talisman live and die on the social interaction of people."

Boyes insisted that although Talisman was cancelled, Capcom will "never close the door to developing a board game or card game that fits our user base".

Capcom was recently given its own online store on the PlayStation Network.