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Multimedialover on 15 August 2013
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Madword said:
Multimedialover said:

Your so blinkered its scary. Your seeing Indie dev who spent over 10,000 grand on a PS4 devkit as the only devs this gen. 

Im seeing the thousands of potential Indie devs in their bedrooms right now with not the money to buy these expensive Sony kits.

There ( if your not blinkered to the industry as it was last gen ) is your 1000's of unreleased PS4 games that are only released on The One because Microsoft have cut WAY in front of PS4 by takig out the need to spend, taken out the need to get a publisher.

 

  • Also until recently you do know that you needed a publisher to make a game on the XboxOne, even though Sony had already done away with this ages ago. Xbox is trying to follow Sony with it's indie devs as they screwed up so much.

 

So now an Indie dev need $499, free software and can now self publish. Unless Sony give Indie devs PS4 dev kits free, they cant compete with that. Let alone modding.

 

  • So if you had bothered to read my previous posts you will know that Sony is giving Dev kits out to people for FREE. You can continue to ignore that if you wish, as you seem very blinkered.

 

Alot of Sony fans seem to cling to last generations mechanics. They dont seem to be very open minded or think out of the box. Unusual for a crowd who claim to like out of the box game ideas.

Nice people, Not to bright though. The Oracle - The Matrix.

As far as i understand it, there is no cost to a PS4 devkit, as long as you are a company making a game (of reasonable quality) you can get hold of one. So please give me a link to the indie dev who paid £10k for one. You make a statement please quantify it.

I recommend you use the internet more, use Twitter and follow  -  you might actually learn something about indie dev on the PS4/Vita. You may be shocked to find in terms of quality indies (that's what matters right) - Sony are well ahead at the moment. Of course if you have a MS twitter guy who is dealing with indie devs the same as Shahid, please share it.

Ok so I exaggerated the cost of the kit on PS4.

Sony has given free dev kits early to certain igh favoured developers. But only the ones it had early on. PS4 dev kits to anyone in their bedroom that  wants to design a game has to pay $2500. Where on Xbox One the max cost is currently $499 + $200 to be accepted to publish. Considerably less than te entry level to ev kits on  PS4 before any cost to publis it on PSN.

http://spong.com/article/30162/Sony-Hands-Out-PS4-Dev-Kits-Like-Candy

There is a higher chance a new indie sstart up will produce for Xbox One exclusive at least first off. Its a great business move for the industry on Microsofts part. Yes it may ave come about due to the competitiveness of Sony, but Microsoft went a step further than they ad to and more than us consumers thought they would.