I have actually stopped playing indies on my PC now as i know that Sony will be chasing down the good ones for me to play on my vita. The vita is also the absolute perfect device for playing or revisiting indies. Sony is doing exactly the right thing to drive some real talent to their platforms. Big games take a heck of a long time to develop. More diversity means a greater customer base which means more AAA developers will want to reach that broader audience. Sony is doing an absolutely fantastic job of adding more diversity to their brand this time around and you should be thankful for that wether you play the games or not. There are plenty of AAA games already available or announced for the PS4. Its as if you have never owned a launch console before.
The PS4 is still very early in its launch cycle. There is a huge market for these games on these platforms. Perhaps you should do just one single blog post on “Indie Updates for the Week” and spare us all the individual posts. So bundling them together in one post is a good idea, as we don’t have to be bombarded with indie news after indie news.
It probably takes more than 10x the effort of making a low-end-presentation, single-scene-per-level indie game than to make a full retail game (AAA or much lower), so that ratio is understandable, but as proportionally they should each be given 1/10 of the limelight. I know there are good indies games out there and there are people who like them, but to many, the PS4 has become the next-gen refuge camp for ancient-gen games. Seems like every PC indie developer is porting their game (bargain bin price or humble bundled by now) to PS4 for another revenue stream. I am seriously tired of seeing all the 8-bit graphics indies coming to PS4. Thank goodness you put them all in a single blog post instead of a dozen individual ones, like what the US blog is doing.
Spelunky: Derek Yu’s beloved procedurally generated platformer comes to PS4 in full 1080p with new social features.Nidhogg: One of the big breakout indie hits of 2014 makes its console debut.I hope you’ll agree there’s something for everyone here – do let us know which ones you’re most looking forward to. In the interests of making it easier for you to browse the new announcements, please see the summary below and click on each game to find out more details, and view trailers and screenshots.
As well as showing off a number of announced titles, such as Transistor, The Witness and Velocity 2X (look out for previews on your game sites of choice soon), we also took the opportunity to reveal a raft of new games coming soon to our platforms.Īs you may already have noticed, the developers of these games have all kindly taken the time to write a guest post for PlayStation Blog to announce their projects personally. Earlier today we held a media event at SCEA HQ in San Mateo, California showcasing the huge breadth of quality indie titles coming soon to PS3, PS4 and PS Vita.