Indie developer calls the indie boom "unsustainable"

[crissindahouse]

I really can't wait to see how they will manage the marketplace on the consoles when we will get some new games every freaking day.

Games released a week ago will be already behind a lot of other games in a “recently released“ list so that new games from unproven developers don't even have a chance to get tried out from enough people to get popular through word of mouth.

We will probably get a situation like on the phones where some will cheat to go up in the “most popular“ list and many others will simply go under as long as they won't find a publisher or will be lucky to get special threatment from Sony or Microsoft (not 100% sure how it works on Wii U).

Xbox 360 got around 4000 of these indie and arcade games and the indie section was already fucked up because of the amount of games. No clue how it shall be this gen when they throw all games in the same market and when we will maybe get much more as a few thousand of indie games.

That's why I fear when Microsoft will make
“every console a dev kit“ a reality. Right now Sony and Microsoft can at least control it a little bit with which developer they give a dev kit so that they won't get any possible trash like “in this game you can control a white dot on a black background“.