It’s definitely something that we’re very much aware of. “We don’t have anything new to announce, unfortunately, other than we’ve definitely heard that feedback many times from both inside and outside the company. The response was disappointing, as you might have guessed, but Adelman at least tried to offer some ray of hope. And I thought, these are my people! These are the guys that I’ve been looking for!” “I remember my first Indie Games Summit at GDC about seven years ago, and it was a small room with folding chairs, and some people were talking about some new little fragment of a game mechanic that they were just working on and playing around with. Not because big games don’t have a place, but because he admires the passion and exuberance found in smaller communities.

I always suspected that there’s got to be a lot more you could do with digital distribution and a lot more variety of content.”Īs he shared earlier in the interview, Adelman only really plays indie games these days.

There were a lot of clones of, you know, if there was a popular game, immediately five clones of it.

Nonetheless, that time spent with Microsoft clued him on the direction digital console software ought to follow: “The main thing that I think that experience demonstrated to me - and really just getting WiiWare started - was there was this natural inclination when you start a digital distribution platform especially back then that it was, well, what digital games are out there? It was casual games, which are great - match-three games and puzzle games - but it seemed like a lot of those were very similar to each other.

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