Theory: The reason why Sony focuses on indies so much.

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AgentZorn said:

ryuendo89 said:
Actually it was Nintendo that have bring the free publishing/tools for indies on Consoles, again sony just took an ideia from others

Not really. The press simply focused more on Sonys indie relationship more than Nintendos. I remember there were some articles about Nintendo making it easier for indie devs to develope for the Wii U and that they were building healthy relationships with indies. There wer also some indies stating how great it was working with Nintendo. The gamming media hardly gave a damn about it and so did a good portion of the gamming community. Then, Sony came along and said how they were helping indies and all of a suddden there is massive praise for Sonys indie focus. 

Sony is a bit more hands on than Nintendo, but both of their objectives are the same. Make it easy for indies to make games for our platform.

I think that's the big differentiator though. Nintendo make things a bit cheaper, but at the end of the day, they let the Indie devs do their thing seperate from Nintendo.

Sony has been actively pursuing devs and giving some of them the same sort of coverage that would normally be given to AAA devs. That little bit of extra activity goes a long way for both the dev and Sony's image.