Microsoft vs Valve - On Treatment of Indie Devs

[Squilliam]

ssj12 said:

Squilliam said:

dahuman said:

Squilliam said:

Why is it always Microsoft and indie developers. How come it is never someone like Activision or EA whose main existance is actually similar to Valves as they all act as game publishers to some degree as their main businesses.

MS has exclusive control on what goes on XBL and Valve has exclusive control on what goes on Steam maybe why =).

Then how many indie games are on PSN?

Fl0w, Flower, Linger in Shadow, D-Tuned, umm.... can't remember. Not many. But Sony never advertised they were a major source of indie games.

Hardly any and those were multi man projects from small developers and few in number.

Did Microsoft ever advertise that they were a major source of indie games?

Did Nintendo support many indie projects?

From what I can see of the big 3 console makers Microsoft supports indie projects the best overall. Sure it may not be as stellar as Valves efforts but at the same time it also cannot be seen as non existant. They even promoted several smaller budget titles in their Winter Indie uprising.