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

[NightDragon83]

Ninsect said:

NightDragon83 said:

The whole "indie" thing is just another bullet point for the Sony camp to add to their talking points. They conveniently forget all the "indie" titles that populated the 360 and XBLA over the past generation such as Castle Crashers, Braid, and the biggest indie title of them all, Minecraft, just to name a few.

But for some reason M$ is "bad" for indie games and Sony is good, as they are good for developer relations in general. Right... just ask developers like Free Radical and Factor 5 how they're doing these days after their exclusive partnerships with Sony over the past gen.

How did they forget? All of those are available on Playstation too you know. This is a new generation, and you're using last generation for your argument here.

You might as well ask Jonathan Blow (Braid creator) how he's doing after his partnership with MS. Went straight to Sony, didn't he? 

Why Free Radical? Didn't they make Ryse (Crytek UK)? How did that turn out?

Nope, that was Crytek Frankfurt.  Free Radical (now Crytek UK), formerly of Timesplitters fame and ex-Goldeneye / PD developers from Rare, made the PS3 exclusive bomb Haze, and Factor 5, after several successful years with Nintendo behind the Rogue Squadron series and Turrican, also made the PS3 exclusive bomb Lair, and both games led to each developer's respective demise.