"Hollow Knight’s early success honestly does not come as a surprise to me. It seems like every couple weeks we hear about an indie game finding success on Switch. The Nintendo Switch is sort of becoming the new home for indies. I don’t think anyone saw this coming, not even Nintendo." -- Nintendo Enthusiast
Earthblade is a 2D fantasy platformer in a seamless pixel art world and is the next release from the Celeste team, well it’s still is but likely will not be released in 2024 as Extremely OK Games’ head Maddy Thorson explains in an official blog post. Earthblade was first announced in April 2021 and then had its first trailer at The Game Awards in 2022. You are Névoa, an enigmatic child of Fate returning at long last to Earth, in this fantasy platformer. Earthblade’s lush pixel art world offers seamless exploration, challenging combat, and countless mysteries to pick apart. Celeste was an amazing game, so we know this will be too, we just will need to wait at least another year.
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“Toward the end of the Wii’s lifecycle was when the indie scene really started to take off.“
Indie games garnered considerable success long before 2012.
Considering it's a handheld it makes sense smaller games are a success.
When you heavily push indies, they thrive. They did well when Microsoft first launched "Summer of Xbox" and then Microsoft stopped caring. They did well when Sony pushed PS4 as the indie platform, then they stopped caring. Eventually Nintendo will stop pushing Indies and they'll slow down there too.
Basically when the system developers/marketplace owners push that content, they do well. Who'd a thunk that giving more marketing time and space to an indie developer helped their success?
BTW most of the very successful indies on Nintendo we're well known (if not successful) on steam. So being well known as you move onto a new platform gets you more news and attention. Again, it's a shocking revelation.
Didn't alot of indie games love releasing on Vita because they were successful for years on it too? I figured a handheld with proper indie support would automatically get great support in that aspec