Microsoft may be trying to go mainstream like their Nintendo counterparts, but hardcore gamers haven’t been forgotten, it seems, as Treasure CEO Masato Maegawa has revealed that the company had requested an Xbox Live Arcade port of the developer’s Saturn game Radiant Silvergun.

“Microsoft actually asked us if we could put it out,” said Maegawa. “We’re thinking about it, certainly, but it’s not as simple as just saying ‘OK, let’s put it up.’”

Maegawa noted that with Ikaruga they didn’t have to do or add a great deal to the game, and that it was “popular and well accepted for what it was.” However, for Radiant Silvergun, they would have to make changes as the game has “aged in assorted ways”.

The arcade Saturn game was released way back in 1998 and has not been made available outside of Japan.