Retro City Rampage Creator Brian Provinciano has been vocal against Microsoft’s policies with indie developers and games in the past. Now that Microsoft announced that they’ll be able to self-publish, is he finally satisfied? Yes and no, as he feels Microsoft is setting up a bad precedent.
With the release of Shakedown: Hawaii coming tomorrow, Vblank Entertainment frontman Brian Provinciano took time out of his busy schedule to answer a few questions from OnlySP.
Brian Provinciano is the founder of Vblank Entertainment, and if you love indie gems then you'll probably have heard of his previous title, retro City Rampage. A sequel, set some years later and embracing the 16-BIT era called Shakedown Hawaii has been announced so we thought we would find out more.
Retro City Rampage was a lot of fun on my 3DS. I'll buy this whenever it comes out. :)
VBlank's Brian Provinciano talked about porting Retro City Rampage: DX and his next title on PlayStation 4 & PS VIta, while there are no plans to bring Retro City Rampage: DX on Xbox One.
Loads of devs are praising PS's tools, it's a shame we aren't seeing more Vita titles.
I'm not a big fan of this game, I'm sorry that is not done well on the X1, I think it's just a matter of marketing.
I guess he has a point. All of us here have no idea what went on behind the scenes but if Microsoft ignored what these guys were saying until their PR campaign became a nightmare shows how disorganised Microsoft was and hopeful that shake up a week or so ago will make sure issues like this are avoided in the future.
I remember on giant bomb's podcast they likened the reveal of the PS4 and the One like a run for presidency of America. Indecision could be bad (PR wise) for Microsoft and lets hope they stop changing things around (even though it is, arguably, beneficial for us) because for the average consumer (not the ones who go here) could get confused and it could put them off.
Hm. Lots of different opinions on this subject.
Ugh!
I prefer the companies I do business with to be flexible, and willing to change. Why is this a bad thing? Some of you malign Microsoft for the oddest of reasons.
Here comes another articles to bash microsoft no matter the positives.. lol damn..smh
The 3rd console curse is very much real. It's up to Microsoft if its fatal.