Indie Games: Sony: Self-publishing, Free Updates. Microsoft: Publisher & $10k

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Damnyouall on 13 June 2013

Sony will allow self-publishing and free updates on PS4, whereas Micrsoft will require a publisher and $10,000.

Source:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-06-13-dean-hall-in-talks-to-bring-dayz-standalone-to-ps4

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RenCutypoison on 13 June 2013

Xbone indie death circle :
User : "I won't buy this game, it's full of bugs"
Dev : "I can't update this game, nobody bought it, I have no money left"

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the2real4mafol on 13 June 2013

Wow, Xbox One will miss out on some great indie hits over the years. What small or starting developer seriously has 10 grand to spare? That money could be spent to good use in development

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eFKac on 13 June 2013

Great. This paid updates policy is especially stupid. Sony had and maybe has for bigger games same policy for 40k$ for a patch. So if someone released a buggy game and there were a good bunch of them, publishers had to pay big money to get things straight, there were a few cases that publishers admitted not to patch their games because of that. I get the idea it might be preventing from releasing broken games, but in the end it didn't have such an effect since almost every game had patches this gen.

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