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Single platform games suck... I really want to play this game and yet I probably never will.

Same story with Fez on Xbox...

Actually, Fez is being ported to other (yet unnamed, but probably Steam) platforms: http://polytroncorporation.com/state-of-the-polytron

Huh, Fish was adamant in the past that he would not port it. Good to see.

Awesome!

But for Journey there's little hope. (https://getsatisfaction.com/thatgamecompany/topics/will_jour...)

Same sentiment on wishing to play both, but I don't think they suck. It's all they have resources for. Have you seen the documentary on Fez in Indie Game: The Movie (2012)? It's on Netflix streaming and it is awesome. Everyone that puts their heart and soul into a game like that and get torn down but trudges ahead despite all odds should be rewarded... even if you are funded by the Canadian government: www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884

You'll see in "Indie Game" that Team Meat got kind of fucked by MSFT. Phil Fish has similar horror stories: he avoided patching a critical bug because supposedly it would have cost him $40k to recertify Fez: http://kotaku.com/5927224/fez-wont-be-fixed-because-microsof...

So, if nothing else, it seems like it sucks for the developer.

>You'll see in "Indie Game" that Team Meat got kind of fucked by MSFT.

I don't know, it seemed like MSFT giving them a hard deadline was what they really needed to actually finish the game. And the sum total of "fucked" was that the promotion for the game in the marketplace didn't go up when they expected it to, and they still had a great first day, and went on to sell great.

No, actually, they got fucked pretty hard. What you see in the movie is only about 10% of what happened -- but you are also misinterpreting what you saw in the movie, which is already pretty bad.

I assume The Witness is cross-platform (including MS platforms) and self-published?

Also, I never got to thank you personally for Braid - It plunged me into introspection and little did I know, I was exactly like Tim, a villain thinking of themselves as a hero.

At some point you consider the hardware a part of the game's price. Pretty much every system I own was bought to play a specific game.

They're one or two person shops that are lucky to get a game out for one platform a couple of years late. The only way they would be cross platform is for them to sell the rights to a bigger company which I'm sure they would consider like giving away their baby.

From what I've read both Flow and Journey were meant in part to be tech demoes for the PS3. TheY push PS3 to the limit. The grass rendering in Flow and the sand tracks in Journey is not something that an iPad would be able to handle as gracefully, for example.

A tech demo for seven year old hardware though.

It may be 7 year old, but it has a unique architecture (cell) that the TGC games most likely take advantage of; it would likely be quite hard to replicate on other platforms.

I'd love to try Journey on a PC.

Seriously though, the PS3 is a no-brainer at this point of its life-cycle. Awesome Blu-ray device, Netflix, Hulu, etc and add PSN plus into the fray and you'll never pay for a game again.

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