Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, one of the most popular games on the Xbox Live Arcade download service, was intended to be a free download.
Bizarre Creations' Ben Ward stated in an interview with IGN: ""Geometry Wars was really intended as a gift to hardcore gamers and we initially wanted to give the game away for free.
""When it became evident that we couldn't do this, we said to Microsoft 'what's the absolute bare minimum we can charge'. They said 400 points, so we went with that."
The original Geometry Wars on Xbox was a hidden extra included in PGR 2.
Bizarre will get their wish in the long run, as Microsoft recently announced it will give away the hit shoot-'em-up game on the new 512Mb memory cards to be launched worldwide on April 3.