Microsoft is passionate about indies, will reveal strategy “very soon”, says Lionhead

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Muffin31190 said:

sales2099 said:
This indie X1 bad rep kinda strikes me as silly.....XBLA and Xbox Indie set the bar for this gen. In terms of quality and sheer quantity.

It ain't like MS never had them on their side, they always did. And now they will keep it strong, that is the luxury of not being released yet, that you can tweak your policies.

As far as consoles go MS in the beginning showed what indies could do, but they did not follow through as well as they could have with indie games.
And so that left a huge hole to fill so that Nintendo and Sony could take advantage of that (more Sony).
But XBLA did not set the Indie bar this gen it was PC with the likes of Minecraft and the umpteenth amount of  games that were released on this platform before any other and set the bar what would be coming to consoles if at all.
So because of the polocies that MS has said with the X1 and it getting a bad rep with Indie developers it is completely understandable, especially when you have a competing company going the Opposite route and virtually letting Developers be their own publishers.

Please don't use PC to defend Sony when I was clearly referring to the console space.