Sony reveals their game parity clause.

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method114 said:

dreamcast210 said:

gergroy said:
But doesnt microsoft give indie developers free dev kits for agreeing to parity and sony makes you buy the dev kits?

This.

It's more than reasonable for Microsoft to ask for this parity if they are giving the dev kit away for free. That's why I'm not understanding the backlash on this. And Sony is showing some arrogance with this tweet. Why do companies do this whenever they become the top dog?

Well hopefully it brings some attention to this issue and maybe MS will back off.  MS might give away a free dev kit but indie devs clearly don't care about that. So while you can try and justify it all you want the devs don't see the "free dev kit" as great as a trade off as you do.

Also before you start parading around this "free dev kit" as something so great maybe you should find out how much a dev kit cost for one. Then you can find out how much a dev loses by having to wait to port their game for the most difficult of all consoles to develop for. When they could be making money off the PS4 version while they develop for the X1. Maybe even make improvement based on people's reactions to it.

^^^This.  A dev kit is not so expensive that a "free" (if a claue that may decrease your reach and therefore profit potential is attatched it is NOT free) kit is the greatest thing to hit Indies in a lifetime or something.