Sony launches crowdfunding platform

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Normchacho said:

osed125 said:

Being a multi-million dollar company doesn't mean anything, take a look at the massive failures of Steam's Early Access games (which is a similar concept to crowd funding).

A lot of crap comes and goes to all game store services (Steam, Xbox Live, PSN, Eshop), there's very little quality control in all of them, I don't see why a crowd fund service will be different. 

At the end of day, Sony (or any other company for that matter) cares about the money more than anything else, if the 5 guy dev team in the basement pays their percentage to Sony, but screws the customer, they most likely won't care; it was what the customers "wanted".

You seem to misunderstand the nature of this program. This isn't a crowdfunding hosted by Sony that allows outside groups to ask for money. Every project up for funding is started by a Sony employee and if a product reaches it's goal it's Sony themselves that make, and distribute it.

If that's the case, I'm still not a fan of the crowd funding process, but it's better that what I had in mind.