Why Toby Fox went with Materia I’ll never get. Was it because of the console space? (If he stuck to just PC could he have remained an independent stakeholder?)
Consoles, especially Nintendo ones, make it practically impossible to publish as “just some guy” yeah. It’s almost always a calculation for the dev: is is the vastly increased audience exposure (and sales that come with that) worth dealing with this blatantly predatory “partner” company? And the main useful thing the publisher does is deal with the even bigger, even more predatory companies Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft.
Why Toby Fox went with Materia I’ll never get. Was it because of the console space? (If he stuck to just PC could he have remained an independent stakeholder?)
Consoles, especially Nintendo ones, make it practically impossible to publish as “just some guy” yeah. It’s almost always a calculation for the dev: is is the vastly increased audience exposure (and sales that come with that) worth dealing with this blatantly predatory “partner” company? And the main useful thing the publisher does is deal with the even bigger, even more predatory companies Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft.