PSN much more daring than XBLA says Braid creator
Sony takes more risks with their downloadables
The man behind the acclaimed indie game Braid, Jonathan Blow has been talking about the relative merits of Sony and Microsoft's console download services.
Blow explained in an interview with Edge magazine that he believed that Sony are far more willing to take risks with PSN games than Microsoft are on XBLA.
He said: "Microsoft has provided the lower barrier to entry with Xbox Live Indie Games, but most of them are not very good - I don't think that's a controversial statement. So if you're thinking about the impact of indie games on the whole forum of games then probably Sony has done more because of the way they curate the games they put on there - they're actually looking for games that are artful or experimental."
He added: "I mean, they published Linger In Shadows; Microsoft would never have done that - that's not even really a game. XBLA is more conservative than PSN but it still has a larger audience so it's much more commercially feasible, as long as you can get your game noticed - which is getting harder over time, but is still possible. Some of the stuff Microsoft signs and publishes on XBLA is pretty bad; some of it is very good. Super Meat Boy is obviously a really good game. I wish they had promoted that more heavily, but Live Arcade is part of a bureaucratic machine, which is part of a bigger bureaucratic machine and so on - what more can they do?"
Thanks CVG.
