Today, I think we've done a good job working with the indies when they have had strict parity concerns if it's just a dev issue for them.' 'So I just saying 'let's have a conversation', and it's worked.

they just can't get both games done at the same time or all 3 games, 4 games depending on how many platforms they're supporting,' Spencer continued. 'I have a lot of friends who run small indie studios, and I get that timelines around when. When it is a matter of resources - when a small studio simply does not have the budget or staff to juggle simultaneous launches on multiple platforms - Microsoft is open to a discussion. 'For me the parity thing is, if you own Xbox One I want to work for you to make sure that when great content launches, if it's coming to Xbox One and another platform, you get it at the same time as everybody else does,' Spencer added.īut this does not always have to apply, he conceded. Or, if they do, that the version that launches for Xbox is different somehow. The parity clause is designed so that indie games do not appear on a different platform first before Xbox One. When indie games come out, I want them to come out and I want Xbox to to feel like it is a first class citizen when an indie game launches.' 'When a third party game comes out it comes out on all platforms at the same time. 'Millions of people own Xbox One and I want those people to feel like they're first class, because they are. 'I'll be honest, the thing I worry about is I look at all the people who buy an Xbox and invest their time and money in Xbox One,' Spencer said. Microsoft-owned Minecraft will continue to be updated for other platforms, although it's unknown whether Xbox versions will gain unique features. Speaking on the Inner Circle podcast, Spencer said the policy was designed to dissuade developers from leaving Xbox One versions of their games until later - something which leaves owners of Microsoft's console feeling left out. We might not always agree with the reasons or ethics, but we have a chance to revisit our values as we play.Microsoft's indie game parity clause remains in place so that Xbox One owners feel 'first class', Xbox boss Phil Spencer has stated. Playing them, we face the messiness of real-world justice and consider the power of withholding the truth.

The games in this list challenge our neat conceptions of right and wrong.

Whether it's not telling Ellie the truth about her unique response to the infection so she can have a 'normal' life in The Last Of Us, lying about who's drugs they are to save a friend in Life Is Strange, deciding not to be honest with friends to save their feelings and avoid confrontation in Oxenfree or rearranging an old man's memory so he thinks he's made it to his dream in To The Moon, telling lies is sometimes the right thing to do. There are many games where you are challenged to make difficult decisions and some of those put you in situations without power, where the kindest thing to do is to lie.

Of course, real life isn't neat and tidy like that. Video games often place you in positions of power, saving the world, righting the wrongs and bringing justice.

First class trouble xbox one