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Sony and Microsoft go to war for the hearts of indie developers

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sony and Microsoft are dueling for the hearts of indie gamers. At its Gamescom press event today in Cologne, Germany, Sony announced a series of indie titles for the PlayStation 4 that show that it, and not Microsoft, is creating the real console for independent game developers.

This is a big turnabout from past console cycles, when triple-A blockbuster developer exclusives were the objects of desire for the console makers. Now, with titles like Angry Birds coming from virtually unknown studios, you never know where the next hit will come from. So it makes sense for the console owners to court indies.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.