E3 2017: Indies 'Less Relevant Now,' Says PlayStation's Jim Ryan

[Mr Puggsly]

twintail said:

Mr Puggsly said:

The problem is developers have had is Sony wanted to own the IPs they worked with. Which is fine but it costed them support. While MS was more open to working with developers for timed or sometimes permanent exclusivity. MS was obviously more open to console exclusives which why a lot of indie content also went to PC.

The Limbo developer was one who flat out said they went to MS for the reasons I said. For a period Sony just about everything they got involved with. That changed.

Do you have anything else besides Limbo? because Sony have run the Pub Fund service for the last 7 years which is basically them giving advanced royalities for an indie game which the indie developer still owns entirely. The only benefit for Sony is that said indie title is a time exclusive. 

If anything, history has usually shown that Sony doesnt go for IP control of an indie title but prefers time exclusive. In fact we are still seeing this through Pub Fund and even the China Hero Project. Sony goes for IP ownership with large scale games.

Indies being on PC is pretty much because of Steam, not MS. 

Everything you said came later, after the success of indie titles on Xbox.