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With 'indie games' becoming more and more an important piece of the console gaming puzzle, what challenges and/or pitfalls (i.e. the temptation to enter into large-sum exclusivity deals) do you think 'indie developers' should be aware of going forward?

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if you want to make a console game keep these things in mind. kind of a pros and cons.

Cons.

-youll need a dev kit, these cost from 10K-20K usually, if you are established you can get this lowered if they want to work with you. $

-youll need someone who knows how to develop for console. $

-youll need to be able to hit deadlines set by your publisher in order to get into promos.

-youll need to get your game localized $

-youll need to get an ESRB for your game $

-you might need to add console specific elements that can extend dev time.

-there is a very high % chance that you wont make as much $ on console as on pc at this point in time. so youll need to also still release it for pc to make it count.

-consoles tend to want exclusive time, from a month to a year they will expect you to set them as priority and ask for exclusive time and content for their version of the game.

-this might be changing but in the past its been very hard and costly to update/patch your game on console.

-you wont have control over when your game gets a sale and what % off it will be.

-you might need to pay someone to look over your contracts or revise them so you dont get fucked over.

-it is much harder to get a console deal than a steam deal or the like.

Pros.

-You only need to dev for one system spec set. this makes the programmers job a lot easier and there will be less bugs.

- Youll get some help with the press and gain a few more ins with specific websites that cover console related stuff.

-You might get opportunities to show your game at cons for free. 

-For some reason people will take your game a bit ore seriously when you are on console.

hope that helps. 


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