| Machiavellian said: Interesting, there is an article on Engadget, that says that Sony is not so much interested in Indie developers anymore while MS has stepped up their game. I wonder if the role reversal has changed. MS showed at E3 a lot of indie games while Sony did not show one indie game. Hell, they even said indies are not that important anymore making it look like Sony has gained what they can from the indie scene and now more focused on big budget projects. |
The thing is, while this might be true, that doesn't change how working relationships are. So let say their focus and money is spent more on VR or bigger budget games now, when in previous years when VR didn't exist and the main dev teams were working on bigger bugdet games (some of which are released now), they needed something essentially to fill the gap. So they approached, dealt with and pushed indie games of varying worth (so a 2 man team vs a 50 man team etc) and helped them as best they could to get the games on their system and release them.
Key thing being that the relationship, dev help and how they approach things is still in place, so while they might not be investing as much money and time into things, that doesn't mean the working relationship and how it has all handled has changed.
Hmm, pie.
