Tidligere i dag kunne vi fortelle at Microsoft har tatt nok en , og sier følgende i et intervju med Polygon:
- One of the bigger things, being a developer and a consumer, is that it puts Sony and Microsoft on equal footing, in a lot of ways, which is always good because it forces them to have to compete even more for our money.
Sjefen hos Tiswaz Entertainment, Kevin Dent, viste også stor entusiasme, og fortalte til Polygon at det blir mye billigere å utvikle spill når man ikke trenger å kjøpe et spesifikt utviklerverktøy.
- It's a no-brainer. I cannot stress enough how Microsoft has just lowered the barrier to entry developing on a console.
Blant de mer tilbakeholdne finner eksempelvis Retro City Rampage-utvikleren Brian Provinciano:
- Make no mistake: while this is a great thing, it's again not the equivalent to what other platforms offer. On PS4, for example, developers can tap right into the system; use every bit of RAM and all of its power. Indies have access to everything that the AAA studios do, from platform support to development and release, sier han til Engadget.
Philip Tibitoski fra Young Horse Games jobber for øyeblikket med Octodad: Deadliest Catch til Playstation 4. I likhet med Provinciano er han skeptisk til helomvendingen, og han vil vite mer om hvordan det vil fungere i praksis og hvordan det blir seende ut.
- I want to be able to see the visual setup of the store and how they're going to be handling discoverability. They recently said everything would be in the same store, but how will that store be organized and what does it take to get banner space or notoriety?
"What are the technical requirements of this? Is there potential to interface with them on marketing and things of that nature? Or will you just be another app in the same way that things released on the iOS App Store can so easily be overlooked? I think it's a step in the right direction, but it's too early to know how large of a step, sier han til Engadget.