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Ripstone on Nintendo's indie support, reconfirms Pure Chess cross-play, filling EA's void

by rawmeatcowboy
09 October 2013
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Coming from a Eurogamer interview with Ripstone's Phil Gaskell (thanks VGAMER!)...

"They've (Nintendo) been quiet, but they've not been idle at all. We've been having similar conversations with them. They're changing their policies on the technical side a lot swifter. We're launching Pure Chess and Knytt Underground later this year, and on Pure Chess we asked whether we could do cross-platform multiplayer, expecting it to be the typical closed console platform I've been used to working with for 20 years. Within a couple of days they said, 'yep, no problem. You can have other console players playing against Wii U players. You can have smartphone players play against them. No problem.'

When I read about people like EA pulling out of the console, I perk up because I think, well, if they're not serving the audience that exists with games someone needs to. I know by looking at some of the statistics that while Wii U doesn't have a huge audience right now, that audience has a voracious appetite for content. And if no-one's going to serve them games, well, Ripstone will, without a doubt. Indie games don't need huge audiences They're often personal and niche creations. They only need niche audiences to be profitable."

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