http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=72482816&postcount=159

Anyone who hangs out on Neogaf knows cboat, who is likely employed within Microsoft and has been right pretty much anytime he's surfaced to throw out information to the masses regarding MS policy/announcements.

Based on what he's revealed today, it sounds like MS will announce that indies will get to self publish on the XBO, but only through the Windows OS (Windows 8 Store for all intent) and will be limited to the 3GB of RAM used by the OS partition on the XBO.

Guess only time will tell if this comes to pass, Kevin Dent on Twitter today insinuated MS will be making an indie announcement in the next 10 days, which would line up with this.

Also, in regards to a cheaper XBO w/ no Kinect in the box:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=72480071&postcount=140

Kevin Dent talked with me a chunk..talked as in...ya...

So wait limited to 3 gigs of ram? Didnt the 360 not even have a gig? So games can be better now? Can Phil Fish have more ram to be angry with?

@the_laughing_man: If they're being relegated to the OS partition and the 3GB allocated for that, then it won't even be the full 3GB, since the OS will still be using some of that.

Still more then Xbox 360. So its more or less the rumor from Build that you make a Windows 8 App and BAM its allowed on Xboxone.

Oh. So, if it comes out on Xbox Indie, its because you've made your game to be also coming out on W8 too? So, the game would sort of be required to come out both places, am I correct?

That sounds alright. Dope.

Kevin Dent says it will all go down within 10 days. Well 9 now.

Welp he says no about the Windows thing.

The trick will be the tool access. If it is free/cheap then that will help. If it requires a specific set of tools only found on a narrow set of versions then that will not help.

Have you looked at the games in the Windows 8 Store? It's pretty ghetto at the moment. I guess we'll see if this ups the quality of their current selection.

https://twitter.com/Laughing__Man_/status/359900850170241025

Check it...but dont put to much stock in it.

And now hes hinting at what I think is funding money.

The original Unity announcement was lacking in detail so you are probably on to something that this is how they implement and deploy the game.

Which is unusual because Microsoft doesn't usually ceded platform technology like this to a 3rd party vendor like this. Sign of the times I guess.

I don't think MS is going to throw a lot of money at small indie projects tbh, not enough of a payoff and a good chance the money won't be made back.

They might pick a handful of games that look promising and offer some funding, but that comes back to cashing in for platform exclusives, and indies want to get their games out to as many platforms as possible usually to maximize what profit there is.

I FOUND THE WINDOWS 8 APP STORE INDIE DARLING

@bigjeffrey: Its Nidoqueen!. Wait.. . Who said that?

@bigjeffrey: Yo that shit was the bomb!

The real question is would nintendo allow this to be on an xbox one?

@extomar:

Yeah I wonder that too.

I can't give numbers out but sony and nintendo's self publish programs are surprisingly very affordable. well relatively speaking...

So it will be on them to provide a cost effective solution that will incise people to develop for the xbox. if true, the 3gb limit really isn't that much of a barrier.

HA

WAIT MOTHERFUCK I FEEL STUPID AS SHIT NOW.

I need caffeine.

That's damn cool. If true then it will benefit both X1 and Windows 8.

Well ignore that embarrassing blunder I somehow made from my tiredness.

Anyway on topic if Cboat is right that's better than nothing I guess.