Microsoft's "indie" gaming strategy for Xbox One

[theprof00]

Multimedialover said:

psrock said:
Seriously OP, you are a very smart guy, but I am very disappointed you've been unable to see that MS is not doing fans/dev a service by their crappy policy.

Why is it so difficult to realize these developers don't want to do things on Win8, And they should not be forced to. MS has become a bully and they are going to pay dearly for that.

No what Microsoft has done is increase the chances of revenue for the same amount of work by x3. No extra work as WP8, Windows 8 and Xbox One can all play the exact same Windows 8 app. 

So actually, devs will benefit from this 3x that of developing for PS4, IOS or android.

Actually no, because:

1. no self-publishing
2. Windows marketplace is more than a thousand times smaller than android and ios
3. Less than 5% marketshare
4. Requires timed exclusivity to their platforms. (Hey wanna make an android app? Nope, it has to be on windows phone for 6 months first)
5. No help from MS (Sony will give you a dev kit for free)
6. Must pay to update your game
7. Make less money, since MS will have to publish your content

It's easily much much worse.

(Also, they already can port their software to several different platforms. But to be on xb1, you need to publish with MS, where you then are restricted to timed exclusivity, which means you just traded 8 huge marketplaces for 3 small ones)