Sony’s VP of second and third-party content, Christian Svensson, has revealed during an interview with The Game Business that the hardware manufacturer has helped to fund over 120 projects during this console generation.
The executive noted that Sony positions indie studios “on the same stage” as its biggest AAA development partners, describing them as a “an amazing complement to the breadth and depth story that needs to exist on our platform.”
On the funding side, I don’t want to diminish what we do. We have funded either wholly or partially more than 120 projects this generation. But that is not the core of what we do. And that’s not counting Hero projects, by the way, which are separate [more on Hero projects below]. We [also] have a small diversity set of funds that we issue every year. Again, it comes through the process of that initial submission. And we have a very small non-recoupable indie fund, which we deliver to have some content come to PlayStation that might not otherwise get to us.
Speaking in the same interview, Svensso noted that Sony’s upcoming slate of unannounced projects over the next few years is going to be ‘unbelievably positive,’ and reckons the industry should be feeling more optimistic.
[Source – The Game Business]