I've coded some smaller projects using Silverlight 2.0, which is fairly impressive.
Does Silverlight 2.0 have what it takes to be a game development platform for the web?
(Are the framerates high enough, will there be 3D engines developed, and many more questions)
Yes or no, with detail if desired, and why.
Best Answer
Silverlight is a very viable platform for 2D Web Games.
I built Diver with it and the development experience was very pleasant. I'm close to releasing my second game and this time the dev experience was even better because the tools were out of beta.
The only downside I see right now is the lack of support by web game portals and ad-revenue sharing sites like MochiAds
Without support from these kind of sites, your options to make money from your games will be a bit limited. Your best option for making money right now is to host your games on your own site with an Google adSense account.
I expect the web-game portals and other web-game services to add support for Silverlight once the plug-in becomes more ubiquitous and we reach a tipping point in the number of Silverlight games and game developers.
My advice: jump-in! The more people developing Silverliht games the quicker we will reach this tipping point.