SCE America boss Jack Tretton believes the indie scene has created a number of superstar developers, that have spawned a number of great titles. Speaking with CNN Money, Tretton said the flourishing indie scene of the past decade has saved the games industry from a mediocre future.
“Looking back, the fear was always that you’d have a few giant publishers making middle of the road games. But the opposite has happened,” he said.
“Thanks to independent developers and smaller studios, you have the Steven Spielbergs of our industry coming out of one- and two-man teams, out of university development projects, where somebody just has a really creative mind and they come out with a game that maybe doesn’t have $100 million, 300-person team polish but is absolute genius.”
“That bodes extremely well. You’ve got creativity flourishing. It’s great for the medium and validates that this is mainstream entertainment,” he said.
“It guarantees there’s going to be something for everyone.”
Sony is pushing indie devs pretty hard with the PS4, and you can already see that it's paying off, just look at the number of indie devs already announcing new titles for the machine.
