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Sony and Nintendo to present at the Full Indie Summit

Both Nintendo and Sony have been kind enough to accept invitations to present at the Full Indie Summit. They'll share with developers the steps needed to get games onto consoles and give a rundown on the great improvements they've made over the past year to streamline the process.

The summit will takes place on April 20th from 10am to 4pm.

Arai4033d ago (Edited 4033d ago )

Make sure to read this:
http://vblank.com/FullIndie...

On-topic: reading the article/pdf I feel for those guys.
It's great that both companies are stretching out in order to reach more developers.

KrisButtar4033d ago

I agree, more games the better! anyone who doesn't think so, is not a gamer

nix4033d ago

Games like Guacamelee makes me want to support Indie devs.

Skips4033d ago (Edited 4033d ago )

Only T.V. partnerships and whatnot. -_-

DivineAssault 4033d ago (Edited 4033d ago )

funny.. +bub... Dont forget skype! Now you can talk to grandma on tv too!

M2-4033d ago (Edited 4033d ago )

trololol

Qrphe4033d ago

Who even needs games when you have TV shows?

CaptainN4033d ago

Nintendo is really going in for the Indy guys.......it looks like they are building up relations for the future !

PopRocks3594033d ago

Nintendo and Sony both, and good on them. There's a lot of untapped talent out there.

jameson123454033d ago

I'm liking the direction Nintendo and Sony are going with Indies. Indie developers tend to be some of the most creative people in the business, plus this route is far more sustainable in the long run than the bigger is better focus of a lot of AAA games nowadays.

TongkatAli4033d ago

Sony is going to get the most indie support. I'm not going to list the upcoming indie games coming to Playstation platorms, too lazy . I can tell you one thing.... it's A LOT : D

On the Nintendo front, haven't heard that much coming to the Wii U and 3DS.

DivineAssault 4033d ago

nintendo has quite a lot of em man.. Have you browsed their eshop? Im sure that wont just stop either.. Sony of course will have more power & features on their side to make the games better imo but nintendo isnt lacking on the indie dev side

TongkatAli4033d ago

I know Nintendo has indie support, Sony has more.

Theyellowflash304033d ago

The PS4 isn't even out yet, and e3 is right around the corner, I think it's impossible to tell who has more indie support right now.

joeorc4033d ago (Edited 4033d ago )

"The PS4 isn't even out yet, and e3 is right around the corner, I think it's impossible to tell who has more indie support right now."

well in my opinion it is indeed Sony has more indie support, because Sony just has more indie centric platforms than Nintendo does.

for example:

Nintendo has the Eshop, which is very good and very healthy in indie support sofar. but, I would like to add Nintendo does not have as many indie centric platforms as Sony does.

while Sony has:

PSN+playstation Mini's
Playstation Mobile
Playstation Home

just by playstation Home alone Sony has over 500 Games that are made by various indie developer's and indie Publisher's. Lots of Gaming content right there alone.

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Sony Patents To Prevent You From In-Game Harassment By Reading Your Emotions

A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.

Profchaos1d 5h ago (Edited 1d 5h ago )

I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.

I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons

I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.

exputers1d 1h ago

Agreed. Blizzard recently banned a college Overwatch 2 player who's dependent for saying "shit." Pretty harsh.

Profchaos10h ago(Edited 10h ago)

How rediculas really. You can't say a word that's allowed in most PG films and prime time TV but the game is based around killing the enemy team using guns, explosives etc.

It's just backwards.

just_looken12h ago

What your talking about is called block list

In 2006 a spaceship dropped of the playstation 3/xbox 360 i say that that generation was the last great gen with game functions/tech that has yet to comeback

Anyhow the playstation 3 if you block listed a id they could not talk to you in chatroom with either text or voice. But that was pre mind fucked 2018 when people were more human than sheep.

But hey gta 6 is coming out billion dollar budget without a single player custom character creator and without singeplayer coop off/online something saints row 1-3 had on the xbox 360.

z2g21h ago

Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.

phoenixwing21h ago

Cmon where's the pictures of your children. Don't hold out on them.

H921h ago

At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath

jambola18h ago

I genuinely get a bit worried sometimes when a friend says something that could be offensive In a party
Because I have no trouble believing some bans would happen when in a private party for saying something wrong

SegaSaturn66920h ago

I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.

Popsicle20h ago

Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.

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Sony Could Increase Your Game's Difficulty If It Sees You Complain About It

Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.

jznrpg1d 13h ago

This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.

Profchaos1d 13h ago

Souls games will be like that players struggling make it harder

PassNextquestion1d 12h ago (Edited 1d 12h ago )

I think if used correctly it could work well

jambola1d 8h ago

cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me

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Nintendo's Massacre Of The 3DS And Wii U Is Finally Complete, Regrettably

Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."