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Jazz2K on 16 August 2014
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steverhcp02 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.

This isnt true at all. the reason people have a connotation of sony = win for Indies is because Sony devotes presentation time to them and isnt afraid to use the word Indie a lot during their presentations. Remember when they had an entire segment with like 8 indie developers on stage each showing their games on screen behind them. 

No one is saying MSFT doesnt do well by indies but Sony is actually hanging their console identity on them whereas MSFT isnt. Thats all. MSFT has half heartedly done some work witht heir twitter indie handle but Sony is pushing it as an identity to their console. The same way as Kinect was pushed as an identity to Xbox but PSEye isnt. different focus and PR.

I think Sony started to be really friendly with devs when a lot of them showed their discomfort with MS. Sony was quick to capitalize on that and never looked back since.