"There is no future to the games business without independent developers; they always will shape the industry, and the big corporations will follow," Carr added. "So that relationship is important."

Soo important that as of this year Microsoft retired the XNA Game Studio used by many indies to create games for the 360... so full of shit.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/121843-Microsoft-Confirms-the-End-of-XNA

@snxx I'll be honest, a few days ago when the news first broke out I did believe it was real because the world is fucked up place.

However, that was my answer for a few thousand signatures..... to see it climbing now tells me instantly this is pure trollage....

... and you know what? Let the trolls be free - its hillarious :D

@rodd76dog Correct. But they no longer care... google 'XNA Game Studio' and you'll find Microsoft has already set to retire it.

This is what highlights why Microsoft is in such a shithole right now.

It all points to the CEO Ballmer, he is totally incompetent for this role. Ballmer is a 'great' business man, but he isn't a visionary in the same way Gates/Jobs were. Microsoft needs to be lead by a CEO with such qualities, fresh innovating products that people 'actually want', not forced down their throats.

You can clearly see Sony has great visions for the future of its PS4 platform, already they are trying to get indie devs thinking about game development on the console, no bullshit "yeah we;ll probably release a dev kit or something in 2 years blah blah", just straight up getting on with it.

ya so lets make it like a box cos its called da xbox lulz,

@Kraken422 true point

Companies will love this!!..... using kinect they can spy on their employees impartially

@MelvinMcSnatch @TurboGuru DRM cannot be removed from the xbox one because it was baked into the console.... oh wait?

The brutal truth....

While Microsoft retracts its policies and takes away good benefits (Family Sharing) to punish gamers for the revolting, Sony just keeps on giving

@Infinity_Gauntl it all rests on Titanfall