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Chris Hu on 11 May 2013
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pokoko said:

It's crazy how defensive people get over this. It's like they stick their fingers in their ears and squeeze their eyes closed.

We've seen tons of documentation on that which suggests that the Microsoft of right now has fallen behind Sony in terms of how they treat indie developers.  Now, understand, that's the PS4/Vita Sony and the Xbox 360 Microsoft.  There is nothing get defensive about at this point.  After the 720 is revealed, Microsoft might also reveal that they've revamped their processes and methods, just as Sony and Nintendo have.  In fact, that's what I expect.

For the present, however, there really is no doubt that Microsoft is behind the curve in this particular area.  It's possible that they're keeping everything under wraps for now, including improved protocol for working with smaller developers, but that's beside the point.  For the moment, most indie developers feel that Sony is easier to deal with.  Really, just deal with it.  It's not the end of the world.

That still doesn't explain why there are way more indepented games on XBL then there are on PS3 and Nintendo consoles not to metion that one of the most successful recent independent games on the PC is also the best selling game of all time on XBL.   On top of that the 360 also had the first two hugely succesful indepentent games on home consoles this gen with Braid and Castle Crashers.  My point still stands for the most part MS doesn't treat indepented developers horrible and the ones that are complaining are upset because there is so much competition on XBL.