Xbox One Keeps Indie Self-Publishing Off-Limits

Microsoft says the coming of Xbox Matchless will not change its strict indie game publication requirements for Xbox Live.

Independent games are sort of a Big Thing these days, so you power think that Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft would assume stairs to encourage their presence and growth on their respective consoles. You'd be right two out of three multiplication, American Samoa Nintendo and Sony some provide indies to self-publish on their networks, but Microsoft for some reason appears to be going in the other direction. Independent developers currently need a deal with either Microsoft Game Studios or a third-company publisher to get their stuff on Xbox Be and the coming found of the Xbox One will not change that situation.

"As of right now, yes. We intend to continue to woo developers in the ways that we have," Matt Booty, the general manager of Redmond Game Studios and Platforms, stated when asked if the present-day publication restrictions would persist in place.

"I would also expect that for this new generation, that we're expiration to continue to explore new business models and new ways of surfacing content," he continued. "But Microsoft Studios is a newspaper publisher that works with a wide range of partners, as suffice a luck of other people, to bring digital content to the box."

It's a trifle dim, with talk of the town of intentions and expectations and "as of right now," but Booty was less ambiguous with Ben Kuchera of the Penny Arcade Report card, who tweeted, "I asked if developers could do it and was told no." Microsoft V.P. Phil Harrison, meanwhile, recently disclosed that the Xbox One marketplace will eliminate the Xbox Live Colonnade and Independent Games channels and offer all its games under extraordinary big camp instead.

Source: Shacknews

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