landguy1 said:
I have seen a number of comments similar to this. How do any of the people associated with or posting on VGChartz have any real idea how M$ has been dealing with indies from the start? We have no idea... We also have no idea how Sony has been dealing with them. I am sure it will come out in the distant future, but we will have no real idea for some time. The few "articles" that I have found on the net pertaining to this don't have any real info, they just seem to be "bloggers" and "writers" that are sharing an opinion but no real info on the matter. If we step back and look at this a little different, we can see that the XBone has the Windows RT OS running on it. The Win RT OS has 100,000+ apps now available to it. Do we really think that M$ isn't going to have some ability to run most if not all of those apps on the XBone? Now, of course a large chunk of those are silly and stupid, but what this will do is allow any developer to make a game that works on the 100+ million windows 8 pc's and with probably small changes also work on XBone. Will these apps be AAA games? NO, but most independant games usually aren't anyway. But, they will allow people to go after creating new and unique things to the XBone. Just my opinion, but that's the whole point of these posts on here anyway isn't it? |
As I said it was just how "feel" things have been going. I'm basing that on the various critisism we have heard from indie developers in regards to the Xbone and Microsoft in general. In contrast to that we've seen Sony showing off vaste numbers of indie games as well as public comments on how easy they are making things for indie developers.
So no, I cannot know as fact, but their is sufficent evidence for thew matter to validate an opinion.
