Mojang: Sony must address openness with PS4

Daniel Kaplan on how the console giant can make development easier on its next-gen hardware

Sony must address the PS4’s openness and remove barriers to development seen on current generation hardware, Mojang’s Daniel Kaplan has told Develop.
The Minecraft studio’s business developer said he hoped Sony’s new console would make creating games easier by removing the need for development kits, confusing non-disclosure agreements and other weird agreements currently acting as barriers to development.

He added that he was happy however that Sony had fixed issues with waiting times on long updates with the PS4, which he said had been “quite a disaster” on current platforms.
Sony revealed at its PS4 unveiling that game and firmware updates could now be run in the background while users continue playing games.
“Something I really hope that they will also address is the openness of the platform and making development easier for the developers, such as no need for dev kits, no need for special weird agreements, no need for confusing NDAs and stuff like that,” said Kaplan.

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