Sony Covering Dev Costs In Exchange for Exclusivity

[eXo]

Sony has announced an initiative in which it will cover development costs in exchange for exclusivity. A bold, but smart move. The recently released Burn Zombie Burn is the first PSN title to take advantage of this deal. It’s all very well for us as platform holders to say ‘put all your money into PlayStation Network, [...]

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[NeilR]

It's about time they make a program like this. We should see a lot of indy games come out of this; hopefully, quality ones.

 

[twelve]

It seems that Sony may finally be realising that they need to focus on getting games on their console rather than failed social experiments like Home.

 

[user friendly]

I thought they didn't pay for exclusives

It's great that the devs get to keep all royalties and this should bring more great PSN titles like PixleJunk.

 

[spike021]

I wonder if it could ever have the potential to entice the really good PSP homebrew game developers to dev for PSN... It's happened before.

 

[FranzH]

I just hope the quality stays the same as it is now (I like the quality of what's on there now).

 

[Mister Chief]

I have to believe MS and Sony have been doing this for years.