I should note that, in the past, Nintendo has made it very hard for indie dev houses to get licensed. They may change this with Wii.

The real trick is finding a way to get their attention. With Microsoft or Sony, you could do that by making a great console style game on your PC (just buy one of their controllers and design around that) but, so far, there is no way to design a PC game that uses a Wii-style controller...


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It looks like Wii is giving a handout to the indie developers:

Quote:

Virtual Console: Wii will have downloadable access to 20 years of fan-favorite titles originally released for Nintendo 64, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and even the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The Virtual Console also will feature a "best of" selection from Sega Genesis titles and games from the TurboGrafx console (a system jointly developed by NEC and Hudson). It also will be home to new games conceived by indie developers whose creativity is larger than their budgets.



I don't know if the Virtual Console will let you access the Wii-remote, or just let you make your own SNES style games.


Last edited by Doug; 05/25/06 20:18.
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