Microsoft doesn't want to get sloppy seconds. They know timed exclusive deals could hinder sales. We also know games are starting to come out later like Outlast and New and Tasty. Seems like those Xbox 360 policies are not as firm for the XBox One.

Another game called No Man's Sky is getting console exclusivity on the PS4. Which we all know will eventually come to the XB1. One can also say these timed exclusive deals are scummy which MS is famous for doing as well.

The fact is the XB1 is a free platform for indie developers. The PS4 development kit isn't. Sony is trying to help developers with royalties but it is still a tactic to keep those games from appearing ion another system, which is also a scummy tactic because its limiting its userbase no matter how you look at it.

All of these policies are scummy tactics.

@cgoodno,
"Then make a system that's better and more open to the Indie developers they want. To force them to sign away their rights or not publish there at all isn't encouraging, it's trapping."

Most of the time it has nothing to do with what system is more open and almost always to do with money. Microsoft was famous last generation for going after these timed exclusive deals. It's money exchanging hands or some form of benefit to the developer. Perhaps marketing. Last generation also saw Sony requesting some form of extra content to make up the loss of not having a parity clause. It's why developers had to put something extra in there if their game came out later. Bioshock is just one example. Again it's all tactics to try and get a competitive edge. Meaning those who bought the game originally on the XBox 360 didn't get that extra content. Isn't that scummy?

"Interesting you would bring that up since MS originally passed on this game and Sony saw it months later and picked it up."

Can you show me where they passed on the game? Phil Spencer has been very positive about the game for awhile now and wants it on the XBox One. The fact is Sony managed to sign the exclusive deal first. Again, scummy tactics that have now become quite common.

http://gamingbolt.com/micro...

The makers of No Mans Sky also made the game Joe Danger. If you recall that was a PS3 exclusive when it first came out. Then it was on the XBox 360 as a special edition. Meaning some content didn't get released on the PS3. I guess that was all due to one system being better than the other, right?

Speaking of signing away rights, why do you think Insomniac left Sony? They wanted to own their own IP. So if we really want to get into scummy tactics we can spend all day doing it. The fact is the consumer is the one who continues to get caught in the middle. Most of E3 this year from both Sony and Microsoft's presentation mentioned the words console exclusive or some form of exclusive DLC.

The bottom line is Sony has created a better platform for indies right now. That wasn't the case a few years ago.

http://wololo.net/2013/09/0...

"Those of you who have toyed with that idea in the early days of the PS3 and the PSP know it as well as me: back in 2006/2007, if you wanted to develop a game for a Sony console, you had to purchase a $20’000 development kit, and prove to Sony you had been working on commercially successful videos games in the past. Sony’s message to Indie devs when the PS3 and PSP got released was extremely clear: “**** you”.

I keep calling those the dark days. They were not especially dark days for Indie devs or hobbyists. They were dark days for Sony: The late 2000′s is when Sony completely failed to see Apple come with their Appstore, and Microsoft’s XBox Live Indie Game programs, both in 2008. It took Sony more than a year to react with a sub-par program, the PSP minis, which appeared at the end of 2009. Despite good effort, how to become a Minis developer was extremely unclear even to motivated people, while it was dead easy to put one’s app up on the Applestore."

It's clear Sony has changed courses with the PS4. The system is way more friendly with game developers. Over time I imagine so will the XBox One and indie developers. In fact it's already improving as they have hundreds of games in development and as I showed earlier, some games have already bypassed that parity clause.