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I tell you why it is a good way to go: P.T.
I know, P.T. is from Konami and Kojima, but, think about it, it is build like a indie game and it is the most unique and interesting thing in gaming in ages.
So, if indies can create stuff like that, and they can, think DON´T STARVE, ROGUE LEGACY and LONE SURVIVOR, gaming will stay interesting for a good while.



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VanceIX said:
Many of those studios will never pan out. Maybe a couple studios with big hits, but not all of them.

And it's not like Sony is giving financial support to all the indie devs. They cherry-pick a few promising ones and go from there. Sony's sponsorship of indies is pretty overblown.


lol you were expecting sony to fund every indie studio?



VanceIX said:
Many of those studios will never pan out. Maybe a couple studios with big hits, but not all of them.

And it's not like Sony is giving financial support to all the indie devs. They cherry-pick a few promising ones and go from there. Sony's sponsorship of indies is pretty overblown.

Bad logic is bad.



o_O.Q said:
VanceIX said:
Many of those studios will never pan out. Maybe a couple studios with big hits, but not all of them.

And it's not like Sony is giving financial support to all the indie devs. They cherry-pick a few promising ones and go from there. Sony's sponsorship of indies is pretty overblown.


lol you were expecting sony to fund every indie studio?

Why not? Platform holders already need to hold third parties' dicks while they piss.



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I'd say that a lot of the indies made the decision to come to PS4 by themselves with little or no coaxing from Sony.

Being friendly to developers will always pay off.



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Mystro-Sama said:

I mean am I the only one to notice? They help all these little indie studios because sooner or later they will be big AAA studios and will always remember that Sony gave them their first big break into the industry which means more exclusives for Sony. And if the talent is too good to pass up they can just buy them for cheap before they get too big and expensive. I even heard Sony acquired ND when it was still and indie and now they make some of the best games in gaming.


Sony and ND relation is quite unique and interesting. ND aproached Sony with the idea for Crash, Sony bought into that and gave them all the suport in the world and they released the first Crash Bandicoot wich was a major sucess and became the Sony mascot to "fight" Mario. ND than decided to aproach Sony and offer more than just a partnership, they wanted to have the background of a hughe publisher to have more resources to develop theyre games so they proposed that Sony bough the company, Sony did so and decided the best course of action was to just let ND be ND and just found theyre projects, so they stayed mostly hands off anything the studio developed (since that worked for ND Sony applies this aproach with everyone of theyre first parties nowadays, founds theyre ideas but stays hands off mostly letting the studios do theyre own thing).

 

Sucker Punch shares a similar story, they aproached Sony and ofered to sell after the sucess of Infamous 1, rather than the other way around.



Gnac said:
o_O.Q said:
VanceIX said:
Many of those studios will never pan out. Maybe a couple studios with big hits, but not all of them.

And it's not like Sony is giving financial support to all the indie devs. They cherry-pick a few promising ones and go from there. Sony's sponsorship of indies is pretty overblown.


lol you were expecting sony to fund every indie studio?

Why not? Platform holders already need to hold third parties' dicks while they piss.

well they can only spread themselves out so far can they... i'm sure that given the chance sony would auction off a kidney to support the indies



Hynad said:
VanceIX said:
Many of those studios will never pan out. Maybe a couple studios with big hits, but not all of them.

And it's not like Sony is giving financial support to all the indie devs. They cherry-pick a few promising ones and go from there. Sony's sponsorship of indies is pretty overblown.


Of course they cherry pick. It's not like they'll finance the entire indie industry. -__-

Give credit where credit is due... Can you do that?

Wait a minute, you're getting annoyed at me just because I pointed out a misconception that some people have? I know they won't that's why I pointed it out -_-

I'm not saying Sony's in the wrong or anything. It's just that people seem to think that Sony is the all powerful patron of indies, when it's not. If anything, Steam is the reason the indie market is as powerful as it is today, they were even more inclusive than Sony was. I give Sony credit for helping a few indies take off, and for expanding the console market of indies. Better?



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DrDoomz said:
VanceIX said:
Many of those studios will never pan out. Maybe a couple studios with big hits, but not all of them.

And it's not like Sony is giving financial support to all the indie devs. They cherry-pick a few promising ones and go from there. Sony's sponsorship of indies is pretty overblown.

Bad logic is bad.

Just pointing one thing out. Once again, I'm not dissing Sony in anyway. They've done great things for the console scene for indies. Just saying that people look far too into Sony's relationship with indie devs.



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o_O.Q said:

well they can only spread themselves out so far can they... i'm sure that given the chance sony would auction off a kidney to support the indies

This is some three-kidney optimism right here.



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