Originally Posted by
Shadow Kisuragi
The rise in price, IMO, is mainly due to Microsoft attempting to increase the quality of games released on XBLA. They stated in the past that they did not want to flood XBLA with low quality or unoriginal titles, so those that are now passing through Microsoft certification are those with greater quality (and those with lower quality are being removed from the XBLA title list). This, unfortunately, translates to higher prices due to the amount of work that goes into the polish for these games. This is why more and more games are being released at the 800MSP+ price point.