Will the PS5 support smaller indie developers?

At Microsoft this has been the case for a while and they run a program with which everyone can bring games to Xbox One themselves at no great cost and the usual home console can be used as a devkit.

Do you think the PS5 will make that possible? So that I do not have to pay 700 euro / year for the developer tool from Playstation but as a small developer the tool is free for me or will cost very little? In addition, I wonder whether the PS5 can also be used as a devkit or whether you are forced to buy an extra devkit console before you can even think about developing on PS5?

Because currently only this door is open to me at Xbox and I really don't want to be forced to make an Xbox and PC exclusive title out of it…

Certainly not

The smaller corporations have a shattering eye on the big corporations. They prefer to have them away. Because the smaller developers flood the market with too many games and very important: the console manufacturers get less money than with large developers.

Sony probably not, since sony has often done things against the users in the past few years

And then why does Microsoft make such programs with which they support small indie developers?

https://www.xbox.com/...elopers/id

They just want to promote their own platform. There's nothing about financial support. You will probably only get any software and support where you can call.

I heard something in an English video somewhere that you have to subscribe to, which should cost $ 700 a month or year. Originally for Xbox and Playstation but Xbox is now more open for small developers and on the second try to find something again via this developer subscription I failed several times.

The technical means are at hand at Xbox because I only have to download a program from the store to use my home console as a devkit as well.

So the developer account itself costs only a one-off $ 19 and that's it. But I don't know how it works with the new Xbox Live Creators program, and especially related to me who wants to make games public, but no money this deserves because it's just a hobby.

Just by the way. How many of these games do you think will be completed in total, of which they were started? The fewest. And Microsoft earns money from the program rather than losing it.

And what exactly does that mean?

On steam I managed to get the green light for the release of my Steam game…

I think Microsoft only wants to make coal with it. Nothing else. If you want to develop one, do it on your own and not by licking the but of someone like Microsoft.

I can handle it when you have to pay a relatively small one-off sum such as The $ 100 entry fee at steam. Then everything fits then but what I do not want to pay subscription amounts for something if the game itself is free and without advertising.

Then you can forget it at Microsoft. If you want to develop games then I would recommend Android. 15 euro once and you can upload as much as you want. Or at Apple.

And what exactly are the exact terms of Xbox because I can immediately forget it without trying?

You just have to apply there. And present your idea. I would not do it. Just develop a PC game. This is better and you can also make it an open source project to earn a little more money.

While apparently not much emphasis is put on it in the USA. In Germany this brings great complications, paperwork and, above all, risks of becoming self-employed.

Why self-employed? You don't need a company to develop a game. You are an artist as a game developer. If you do less than 8,000 a year you don't need anything. You have to register as a freelancer.

8000 a year is a joke! You earn more with a minimum wage.

Can it be that everything is speculation without any kind of calculation or personal experience?

So you want to be a full-time game developer or what?

You don't respond to a question, with a question!

I think you should know that, otherwise this conversation doesn't make any sense.