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iPad: Death for Indie Developers?

iPhone Gamer Blog writes, "I'm worried. One of the best parts of the App Store is that small, indie developers are able to make a huge impact when it comes to the gaming landscape. They are able to do this for a number of reasons. First, the iPhone/iPod Touch is fairly easy to develop for when compared to a PC or a Mac. Everyone is using the same operating system and system specifications. Secondly, many of the large developers are just now dipping their feet into the mobile platform. This is especially true when you compare EA's smaller offerings on the iPhone when compared to consoles. "

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Dev8 ing6005d ago

PC is even easier than iPad and itouch. Any idiot can make a flash game. Objective-C takes a bit longer to learn. Indie developers will be the death of Indie developers as the market saturation on the iPod touch will attest to. When everyone can make games, everyone does and you just end up with a lot of crap to sift through to find something good.

iphonegamerblog6005d ago

There is no doubt. It is getting harder already for people to get the word out about their indie games that are of actual quality. We reviewed an indie puzzle game called Relix a few weeks ago. Great game. But it is getting killed in sales by beer and fart apps.

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai75d ago (Edited 75d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio74d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing74d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9274d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit74d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing74d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9274d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Report: Injustice 3 in Development at NetherRealm Studios

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."