MS To Indie Devs: You Have a To Have a Publisher

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 17, 2013 @01:35AM from the name-recognition dept.

Loadmaster writes "The new Oddworld game New 'n' Tasty is coming to every platform in the current generation and even the next generation but not the Xbox One. It's not that developer Oddworld Inhabitants isn't porting the game. It's not that they hate Microsoft or the Xbox One. No, it's that Microsoft has taken an anti-indie dev stance with the Xbox One. While the game industry is moving to Kickstarter and self-funded shops, Microsoft has decided all developers must have a publisher to grace their console."

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Re:Alternate perspective from an indie dev by mystikkman · 2013-06-17 03:56 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Also, what happens if you want to sell a fart game to the PS4?
Sony will most likely reject it, so games have to go through an approval process(which is against this story's gist).
If they don't, the PS4 store will end up like the app store and play store, full of free-to-play junk with forced in-app purchases.
Sony is just milking the MS PR screwup to get the maximum sales before they actually reveal what's going to happen with a lot of things.