What about this elephant in the living room?
Big companies have access to testkits whilst indies are marginalised to the PC market. Ok we have XNA but what about the Wii, the dominant console for the casual market?
If Nintendo were really open to the indie developer then they would have a crap load of innovative content (which is frankly in great need) but unfortunately due to their family friendly idealism (MadWorld seems to be the exception) they dont want to taint their image or are just not interested which is a bit sad.