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PS4 'Easy Choice For Developers'
Paul Walker
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Dear Esther creators, The Chinese Room, says that the PS4 is the easy choice for indies.
Published on Oct 8, 2013 According to the creators of Dear Esther, The Chinese Room, the PS4 is currently the easy choice when it comes to next-gen consoles for indie developers. Speaking to GamesTM, The Chinese Room were critical of the way that Microsoft has treated indies in the past and said that the negative press the Xbox One received after its announcement has effected indie developers attitude to the console. "I find it still surprising how badly things can be handled," said creative director Dan Pinchbeck. "I’ve never known such a difference in a console launch in terms of how polarised the PR success has been. It’s extraordinary. "Like a lot of small studios, it set the agenda of where we were going to go if we were going to make choices." "At this point, if we were choosing between consoles, it would be extremely hard for us not to go to PS4 and that’s something that Microsoft have to listen to," Pinchbeck continued. "The way they treated indies on XBLA wasn’t good and the reputation got around and indies stopped working for them. It’s one of the reasons why the XBLA isn’t as powerful as the PSN Store because it hasn’t got the products. "They mistreated the people making the products and if you do that people will stop making games for you," Pinchbeck said. "And that’s good, that’s the democratisation of how the game making system works and Sony has been smart and listened to that." The studio feel that the voice of smaller developers is starting to be heard as we move into the next-generation with the PS4 and Xbox One. "A generation ago indie developers would’ve been in a certain place in the food chain in terms of consoles," said lead designer Andrew Crawshaw. "Their voice is being heard now."
