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pokoko on 03 December 2012
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forevercloud3000 said:

http://www.play-mag.co.uk/ps3-news/psn-is-beating-xbox-live-in-the-indie-game-stakes/

 

 

This, according to research, facts and figures – none of which was anything to do with us, annoyingly.

2D Boy’s Ron Carmel (they made World Of Goo – one of the best indie games of… well, ever) has taken to the world of blogging to discuss and dissect the world of digital distribution on consoles and elsewhere. The conclusion has been made, at least from a limited sample of independent developers, that PSN is pulling ahead of Xbox Live in the number of games being developed for and released on it. See:

“As you can see, in 2008-2009 Microsoft had more developers making games for XBLA than Sony had for PSN. The gap narrowed in 2010, and this year more of these developers are making PSN games than XBLA games. Next year, the number of games this group makes for XBLA will drop again, and PSN’s lead will widen as the number of developers making PSN games rise to double what it was in 2008-2009.”

 

Now that's really interesting.  Looks like most of the belief that XLA is way ahead of PSN relative to the indie game development world is based on information that's way out of date.