Last week, the ID@Xbox blog released a post regarding their indie games shown at Xbox’s Gamescom conference. An interesting piece of information they revealed was that there are currently more than 500 indie devs building games for Xbox One – the last known number of indie developers on the PlayStation 4 is over 1000.
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Good.
Now that you´re releasing games and making big money from every gaming platform, you should double that amount and give us even more day one third party games!
I like how they twist cannibalising game sales into "invests".
No lifetime sales with MS, they'll F-up gaming the same as streaming services have done to the movie industry and it's workforce.
we know this, we have known this since last year.
this is not new or news.
Phil Spencer has sent a letter out to employees informing them that 650 jobs would be cut from Microsoft's gaming division.
The original story is from IGN as they are the ones who got the memo.
https://www.ign.com/article...
Still sucks!
A combined $80 billion spent on consolidating a massive part of the industry, thousands fired all to line the pockets of the already wealthy and turn the gaming industry into a rental service.
FU MS.
Not sure about the rest of the world, but here in Brazil we have a say that goes like this:
'May the last one to leave please turn off the lights'
What the heck is MS even doing right now?
Shaz from GL: “Amidst recent concerns surrounding Xbox, Phil and Co. need a win. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will be it.”
Not worried about facial animations , but I do hope the gameplay is fun . Most definitely I will purchase this on PS5, if the gameplay is fun .
nice hit piece. I notice the writer didn't mention any of the journalists / creators who had good things to say. From what i hear, it has riddick: escape from butcher bay in its DNA. To me that sounds like something to be Optimistic about rather than pessimistic.
It’s odd to have a first person perspective for an adventure game with stealth and brawling. But’s not without precedent. Wolfenstein: New Order and Wolfenstein: New Colossus had a lot of adventure game elements. They were in the league of the greatest games ever, but they were both fun games. Indy looks fun too.
Yes, Indy looks like Todd Howard. Something feels way too off.
Great work from both teams, I just wish every fudging indie game didn't have to come with a timed exclusivity. I mean, I think Guacamelee: STCE is the only indie game that hasnt exclusivley released on ps4/xbone.
Anyway, I'm most excited for No Mans Sky. Looks amazing.
This isn't new news but ok, lets go with it. Congrats sony & microsoft for making indies have a second home & for some a 1st home on consoles. Big shout to sony for opening up public housing for another 500 indies or more.
No get more cops/cyber security on the street.
I think we all know that already. MS just started to really rollout indie games so we can figure out that Sony has more right now. How is this even news?
It was something like 4 times the amount of developers on PlayStation than on Xbox the last time we had these figures so things are improving at a steady pace I'd say.