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PS4 : "number of developers joining has increased from 126 to 505" since Feb 2013
- Thread starter maquiladora
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a 1000 is not enough
ps2 by the end of its life had close to 4.000 titles.
Most of it was shovelware but still.
kylebarker
Member
300% increase since February. This next gen should be good.
akachan ningen
Member
What a comeback. The playstation is like a phoenix, rising from arizona.
That part where Boyes said about one of the indie devs something along the lines of "And those guys thought we wouldn't even want to talk to them, so we've put them on stage!" was honestly the highlight of the first half of the conference. Compare that to Microsoft's "We support indie devs and as a proof we're going to bring you a whatever the fuck has changed version of Minecraft!" and you can see the difference in the approach.
Pristine_Condition
Member
...Maybe I need to brush up on my Greek mythology, but I don't think that's how a phoenix works.
Yep, so far they have done an amazing job in almost everything (hardware, DRM, indie games, price e.t.c.)...kudos to the Playstation team for making the PS4 so appealing to the devs and the gaming community as a whole regardless which console was their system of choice on the current generation.
I hope this will continue in the coming years and that we'll end up with a fuckin' awesome system in our hands, it looks like the industry will need a system like this.
dragonelite
Member
So are most mobile apps.
They count everyone that can make a fart app on android too.
Still cool for Sony allowing self publishing. Even thought you could do it on the us xbl indie marketplace. But you don't hear shit about it because you get pushed into the corner. Some minecraft clones made a million i would bet he could have made couple of millions if the market was globally open such a fucked up policies. They do so much for developers but at the same they do so little.
Hope microsoft can also expand that indie marketplace with the WinRT integration and their free visual studio but to do have some us for it you need a $99 dollar per year license to run and debug your game on your home console in my eyes way better then a multi thousand dollar devkit. And there are multiple ways to get it for free from your local ms reps they are really cool too developers got free $500 tickets to tech days and stuff.
If you ask me this is a lost case not having at launch. But it surprises me not given how bad xbone dev environment is compared to the ps4 given the developers tweets about it and rumored hardware problems.
quickwhips
Member
This is sorta like how apple says they have millions of apps but alot of them are crap. But still pretty cool I guess.
weekend_warrior
Banned
PS4 owners are going to be in Indie heaven, maybe this really is the Steambox?
Honestly it's one of the things which makes the Vita great (though others call it a failure).
Glad to see that continue on PS4.
rapid32.5
Member
x360 is still $300 after 8 years, not a chance with how shitty MS has been.
GTP_Daverytimes
Member
My thoughts exactly, shit is going to hurt my bank account.
That's not exactly hard from what I've heard, but you're right.
dragonflys545
Member
Take my money 505 developers!
Yep
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/06/10/e3-2013-indie-developers-continue-to-choose-playstation/
Not to mention Housemarque is working on a PS4 game.
Katana_Strikes
Member
I was disappointed we didn't get to see Stardust 2 actually.
Most likely see their game at GDC, they said they going to be at one of those shows.
bigdaddygamebot
Member
Can't Sony just do the same thing?
bigdaddygamebot
Member
Some journos were expecting a $99 360 announcement and there wasn't one.
Maybe Q4 will still be a competitive one for Microsoft if they do something such as this and just sat on the announcement to save it as their "Oh Shit!" button.
weekend_warrior
Banned
Yeah that makes sense, shave $300 off the price for signing a 2 year contract worth far less then $300 for a service which you'd have to buy anyway in order to do pretty much anything with the console. Good business move.
While I agree with you, my vita and soon to be ps4 will be my couch and on the go indie machines... The PC is the king of indie games.
That actually would be a good idea since they have 2 studios now.
Rogue_Ledr
Banned
Wouldn't be such a big deal I suppose given their history,
What would be a big deal is if Sony hired SOMEONE ELSE to do a Ratchet sequel and gave Insomniac the shaft.
lol, worst developer ever!
I would be very, very surprised if development hasn't already started on a PS4 Ratchet timed to coincide with the feature film in 2015.
2 years xbl is more like 100-120$, so 300$ reduced price sounds a little unrealistic.
And XBL becomming really mandatory on the X1, they would just loose the XBL money with a subscription like this.
And that is what worries me as 95% of games made to tie to a movie almost always sucks .
Hot Coldman
Banned
Kinda concerned about this, too.
Didn't save the Dreamcast from the PlayStation 2
Sega Will Give Away Dreamcasts To Lure Subscribers to the Web
dragonflys545
Member
Probably more than just indie. One problem a lot of dev had this gen was making games for PS3 because of the cell. From what I read I think the PS4 is going to be very easy to develop games on.
dragonflys545
Member
Here ya go!
http://us.playstation.com/develop/
It won't ever get on the scale of something like the iOS App Store since you'll still need a PS devkit to publish games. But if you're a serious dev who's published a game or two, then it should theoretically be very easy to start making PS games.
It's only just a number of developers, but who knows. I believe there was a rumor going around that Insomniac only have Xbox One dev kits. They don't have any PS4 dev kits, but Insomniac is apparently working on a PS3 game though for Sony.