In an interview with Polygon Double Fine's Tim Schafer talked about the next generation of consoles and how it's too expensive and difficult for an independent developer to fit into the next gen landscape with all the licensing costs, patch costs, certifications, and so on.
"We'd still like to be active in that space, we care about consoles, but unless they open things up a lot more like what we have on Steam... if they opened things up more it would be a more friendly place from our perspective."
"We've talked to them about this stuff, and you know, they hear us. They're big companies and they can't make changes overnight, but I think they're taking all of that stuff into consideration. We'll have to see what happens."
Remains to be seen how and if Microsoft and Sony have any plans to open up their next consoles more than what was the case with PS3 and Xbox 360.