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WagnerPaiva on 04 March 2014
HumdrumPie said:
Why would you buy an Xbox One if you are not into online shooters?! I would love to play Dead Rising 3 but not enough to buy a $500 console. Ryse is too short. I'm glad you're enjoying Xbox Fitness though.

The good stuff like Quantum Break seems far away, but maybe we'll hear more at E3.

Because the Xbox One costs 1 thousand dollars in Brazil and the PS4 costs 2 thousand dollars. The WiiU is 800 dollars so the One was a good deal for me.

And I figured out it would have a similar library as the 360, which had hundreds of indies and cool strategy games, like Tropico. And, since my 360 did not have wi-fi, I never could enjoy these cool indie or digital titles. I know I could install it near to my modem but in my home it would be a nightmare, just trust me, it is wifi or nothing.



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HumdrumPie on 04 March 2014

Wow! Those prices are crazy! I would have gone with an Xbox One too in that situation. It's the opposite where I live. Tier 3 country so the Xbox One is not officially released here yet. Still available from local stores at an inflated price though.



Nintentacle on 04 March 2014

They're at PC.



JoeTheBro on 04 March 2014
shikamaru317 said:
WagnerPaiva said:
shikamaru317 said:

The first ID@Xbox games release this month, they are currently undergoing the certification process. Don't worry, there will be plenty of indie games on Xbox One, over 100 already in development if I remember correctly.

I hope so, my Xbox 360 has no wifi so I could never enjoy the indies and digital games on Xbox 360. I will buy a PS4 someday, but some good options on Xbox Store could make me be able to wait one or 2 years even.

Yeah, the first few are coming this month. The list of indie devs signed onto ID@Xbox is well over 100 now (I think close to 200 actually), ranging from small new studios to some very big name indie devs like Double Fine and Playdead. 

Indie support will only get better in the future, Microsoft plans to make every Xbox One console a dev kit and they plan to give every developer free access to a special version of the Unity engine designed from the ground up for Xbox One. 

Just for comparison, both Nintendo and Sony each have over a thousand indie devs signed into their programs.

ID@XBOX seems like a pretty good program but at the moment it's not even close to the size of the other guys.



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WagnerPaiva on 04 March 2014
shikamaru317 said:
By the way, Microsoft will be showing some of their indie games at GDC which is from March 17-21.


Hey, I forgot GDC was coming, I love the keynotes, that long Hideo Kojima one was so amazing, that one he discussed MGS4.



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WagnerPaiva on 04 March 2014
JoeTheBro said:

Yeah, the first few are coming this month. The list of indie devs signed onto ID@Xbox is well over 100 now (I think close to 200 actually), ranging from small new studios to some very big name indie devs like Double Fine and Playdead. 

Indie support will only get better in the future, Microsoft plans to make every Xbox One console a dev kit and they plan to give every developer free access to a special version of the Unity engine designed from the ground up for Xbox One. 

Just for comparison, both Nintendo and Sony each have over a thousand indie devs signed into their programs.

ID@XBOX seems like a pretty good program but at the moment it's not even close to the size of the other guys.


How the hell Nintendo get so many? Amazing, and they showed some of them on the Direct, which is a very smart move.



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Somini on 04 March 2014

They´ve switched to the PS4.



kitler53 on 04 March 2014

coming to ps4.

MS was late and then that launch parity clause had a rush of indie's signing exclusivity agreements with sony. indie's will come to xbone eventually but the first gen of them especially will be very late to xbone. also, if ps4 continues to dominate the sales i foresee that lauch parity clause to keep a lot of indies from ever releasing on xbone.

i mean, just follow the news sites.  a new indie announces as playstation exclusive every other day or so.  xbone has had ~1 announcement in all of 2014.



WagnerPaiva on 04 March 2014
kitler53 said:

coming to ps4.

MS was late and then that launch parity clause had a rush of indie's signing exclusivity agreements with sony. indie's will come to xbone eventually but the first gen of them especially will be very late to xbone. also, if ps4 continues to dominate the sales i foresee that lauch parity clause to keep a lot of indies from ever releasing on xbone.

i mean, just follow the news sites.  a new indie announces as playstation exclusive every other day or so.  xbone has had ~1 announcement in all of 2014.


And some horror games too, I secured my free Outlast and Don´t Starve throught PS PLUS (I have the Plus on my PS3) and there are more coming, I was thinking I would get a PS4 in setember or october, but these free to play offerings and the Plus free games are looking so juicy and delicious, it is getting harder and harder to resist.



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WagnerPaiva on 04 March 2014

Did you guys see this? Impressive Project Spark beta footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrntWHlBDfg



Reminds me of LBP, but on stronger tools. Seems very promissing.



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