Xbox Honcho Phil Spencer Wants to Rethink the Parity Clause; Acknowledges Gamers’ High Expectations

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michael_stutzer on 11 October 2014

true_fan said:

Keep the parity clause, 97% of indies are garbage anyway and MSFT makes sure the better can pass through the process. There hasn't been one great indie game that has came for ps4 and skipped XB1 and Spencer has already confirmed his interest in popular games like No Man's Sky, unless sony ends u buying exclusivity. Also I wouldn't want to keep waiting for devs to develop XB1 version after the ps4 version.

Not to mention people focus on the games coming out at the same time, but people never mention the free devkits and other benefits of the id@xbox program,

LOL.

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Kerotan on 11 October 2014

People are so quick to jump and praise Phil. Do you really think he'd be so nice if they weren't getting their ass kicked by the PS4? I doubt it.

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Muffin31190 on 11 October 2014

true_fan said:

Keep the parity clause, 97% of indies are garbage anyway and MSFT makes sure the better can pass through the process. There hasn't been one great indie game that has came for ps4 and skipped XB1 and Spencer has already confirmed his interest in popular games like No Man's Sky, unless sony ends u buying exclusivity. Also I wouldn't want to keep waiting for devs to develop XB1 version after the ps4 version.

Not to mention people focus on the games coming out at the same time, but people never mention the free devkits and other benefits of the id@xbox program,

You are right ... there has been way more then 1

Dust: an Elysian Tail
Olli Olli
Hotline Miami
War thunder
Transistor
Towerfall Ascension
Resogun
Trine 2
Anomly 2
Awesomenauts
Velocity 2x
Sound Shapes

Now just because you might not consider these games to be great, does not mean they aren't.
And you really want to keep something (Parity Clause) that will keep you from playing games becuase they were on a another system first?

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endimion on 11 October 2014

Muffin31190 said:

true_fan said:

Keep the parity clause, 97% of indies are garbage anyway and MSFT makes sure the better can pass through the process. There hasn't been one great indie game that has came for ps4 and skipped XB1 and Spencer has already confirmed his interest in popular games like No Man's Sky, unless sony ends u buying exclusivity. Also I wouldn't want to keep waiting for devs to develop XB1 version after the ps4 version.

Not to mention people focus on the games coming out at the same time, but people never mention the free devkits and other benefits of the id@xbox program,

You are right ... there has been way more then 1

Dust: an Elysian Tail
Olli Olli
Hotline Miami
War thunder
Transistor
Towerfall Ascension
Resogun
Trine 2
Anomly 2
Awesomenauts
Velocity 2x
Sound Shapes

Now just because you might not consider these games to be great, does not mean they aren't.
And you really want to keep something (Parity Clause) that will keep you from playing games becuase they were on a another system first?

not sure about the others but dust an elisian tail came out on 360... I know if finished it...

anyway where I agree is most of the big indies that are potential money makers get through the parity clause..... It's really a false issues when it comes to big indie titles... For the smaller no name studios that's an other issues and for gamers too

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TiagoCosta on 11 October 2014

Without looking into those titles, I'm pretty sure I played Dust, Awesomenauts and Trine 2. (on a Xbox platform)

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endimion said:

not sure about the others but dust an elisian tail came out on 360... I know if finished it...

anyway where I agree is most of the big indies that are potential money makers get through the parity clause..... It's really a false issues when it comes to big indie titles... For the smaller no name studios that's an other issues and for gamers too

You show the big mistake with the parity clause with Dust.

It was console exclusive on 360 last gen and this gen it is console exclusive to PS4 due the parity clause... and it just will be a Xbone version if MS alow them to skip this clause.

Indies focused on MS consoles are now avoiding it.

TiagoCosta said:

Without looking into those titles, I'm pretty sure I played Dust, Awesomenauts and Trine 2. (on a Xbox platform)

What I wrote up.

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TiagoCosta on 11 October 2014

Awesomenauts is currently announced for the Xbox One as well.

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Muffin31190 on 11 October 2014

endimion said:

Muffin31190 said:

true_fan said:

Keep the parity clause, 97% of indies are garbage anyway and MSFT makes sure the better can pass through the process. There hasn't been one great indie game that has came for ps4 and skipped XB1 and Spencer has already confirmed his interest in popular games like No Man's Sky, unless sony ends u buying exclusivity. Also I wouldn't want to keep waiting for devs to develop XB1 version after the ps4 version.

Not to mention people focus on the games coming out at the same time, but people never mention the free devkits and other benefits of the id@xbox program,

You are right ... there has been way more then 1

Dust: an Elysian Tail
Olli Olli
Hotline Miami
War thunder
Transistor
Towerfall Ascension
Resogun
Trine 2
Anomly 2
Awesomenauts
Velocity 2x
Sound Shapes

Now just because you might not consider these games to be great, does not mean they aren't.
And you really want to keep something (Parity Clause) that will keep you from playing games becuase they were on a another system first?

not sure about the others but dust an elisian tail came out on 360... I know if finished it...

anyway where I agree is most of the big indies that are potential money makers get through the parity clause..... It's really a false issues when it comes to big indie titles... For the smaller no name studios that's an other issues and for gamers too

I can see what you mean for the larger studios.

But with the games he said XBone not 360