PSN has vastly improved in the Indie department the last 2-3 years after they created the Pub Fund to finance games.

"Before XBLIG, and even after, there has yet to be an easy avenue for independent devs to get work released without going through a closed platform or dealing with a publisher."

Interesting that that they included this line in the article, as it was critical of Microsoft along with everyone else.

Also, this article appears to be sheer spin. The things he is quoted as saying are not the same as what is paraphrased, not by a long shot. He said that the indie scene on consoles would not exist as it does today without XLA and that no one else has been as successful. He said nothing about quality or maturity or any of the other stuff people are making up.

Horrible, tabloid level article.

If I'm not mistaken Tetris was the best selling game of 2011.

It was announced at E3 2012 that Journey was the best selling PSN game of all time.

Which would imply that it does reward innovative and fresh ideas.

source? Real question, I was pretty sure that FFVII was the best selling game period off of PSN.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=best+selling+game+on+PSN+Tetris

lol

Naming the few hyped artsy games doesnt really mean much considering how XBLA vastly outnumbers in quality.

Sorry but those 4 artsy games are so overlisted by so many people. They span different years as well, and never really sold well.

I can easily name many more XBLA games that score very high, sold well, and arent meant for hipster minorities.

tetris was the best selling in 2011. journey is the best selling game on psn of all time.

http://www.destructoid.com/e3-journey-is-the-best-selling-psn-game-of-all-time--228743.phtml

The best selling PSN game of all time.

I'm going to guess it sold enough to be rewarding.

How can you say they never sold well? We don't have any sales figures for the games.

Also 'hipster minorities'? Where do you come up with this nonsense?