Indies Will Tip The Scale In PS4's Favor

[mrstickball]

badgenome said:

mrstickball said:
The average indie game on PSN sold about 1/3rd that of XBLA.

It won't tip the scales if there is far, far, more money on the other side. Unless Sony fixes that, it won't be the kind of sweeping win you'd imagine. Even then, Microsoft absolutely butchered Sony on indie/downloadable exclusives last gen. It'd take an exact reversal of fortunes to change that.

That's the benefit of being there first with XBLA, but now such a reversal is not implausible. It's a lot easier for Sony to change that dynamic with the generational change over than it was for them to change it mid-generation. And with Sony betting so heavily on indies it stands to reason that people who like indie games would gravitate to their platforms.

We'll find out when we see the PSN UI and download figures. Until then, its mostly speculation as to how it'll all turn out. But even then, WiiU was supposed to do much better, and in turn, the figures are simply deploreable.