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Originally Posted by dino7c
so Sony has forced microsoft to do a total 180 on
DRM
Always online
Paid services requiring xbox live
Kinect
anything else?
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They've been forced to play nice with indie developers now and started with the recent ID@Xbox program. I've said before but those poor "Skull of the Shogun" guys got bent over by Microsoft.
And, they still have a pretty damn onerous "launch parity clause" on independent developers. If you want to ever sell your game on the Xbone you MUST release it on their system as the same day as any other ecosystem or they will never let it on the Xbone.
A lot of devs have already panned it given the limited resources of these small developers having to hold back sellable versions (and incur additional operating costs) to finish coding on all ecosystems before they're allowed starting getting revenue back. Can you imagine if the Play store or App store had contract clauses like that?
I could see Microsoft doing a 180 on that at E3.