Comments on: The Fence is Down: WiiWare Announced

By: The Ludologist » Blog Archive » … next year, opening to the community … probably

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:18:21 +0000

[…] (So we can try to divine the intentions while also waiting for Nintendo to deliver on their Wiiware promises.) Finally, Satchell said that next year Microsoft will announce full details on, and its vision […]

By: Anders Linder-Nor

Anders Linder-Nor — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:17:31 +0000

I think it’s rather disturbing that the big boys are coming to play with us. While this is great now (and I would love to play supermario bros on Wii, thanks Nintendo) for all the devs that can make contracts and get their games published on Wii, my suspicion is that the big boys will get the small boys to their studios to do the small games, and the Indie game scene has what happened to the PC-scene in the late 80’s, early 90’s – Mr. Independent become QubicleDev.

By: Gazz Williams

Gazz Williams — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:58:07 +0000

Over the last couple of years it seems that the big 3 have been silently accomodating the rootsier gaming community: Providing cheaper indie titles on live channels, emulated retro-gaming (Wii, XBL,) homebrew (Net-Yaroze(?) YA-Basic on the PS2, “other-os” on PS3 and now open-source on the Wii.) Exciting stuff, I wonder if they are going to actively support developers with devkits etc (as Jesper notes) or just tolerate the homebrew which will innevitably emerge…If they do supply devkits I wonder what the access to the hardware will be like ?