Anyone else tired of the "indie boom"?

[MikeRox]

RolStoppable said:

MikeRox said:

Depends how you define indie title to be fair.

Most high profile indie games are being snapped up by a major manufacturer through exclusivity deals etc.

Offering promotional deals to garner timed exclusivity on consoles is not even remotely the same as outright funding of a game. The three games that were made by That Game Company are Sony's IPs, so they won't appear on non-PlayStation platforms unless Sony decides that they want them there.

They are however still considered indie titles so fit into the discussion of this thread about indie gaming. Some people's metric for an indie game is not being AAA it would seem. Which is why I said it depends on your definition.

I'll go back to Thomas Was Alone vs Volume then. I do think that smaller studios are going to start producing much more ambitious releases this generation.