Future of Wii Shop Channel: Open Platform for Indie Game Devs

CVG contacted Nintendo to get some closure on this. The opportunity for Indie game developers to produce Wii-centric or other original titles will indeed be a procurable function in the future.

From a personal standpoint, I wonder if this will give game developers incentive to produce low-budget titles for older consoles? It would only take a small development team to create say, an SNES or Genesis title; and production costs wouldn’t be as astronomically high as they are for contemporary titles.

I guess this opens up the possibility for cross-platform releases also. That should be interesting; I wonder when we’ll start seeing the first exclusive Wii Shop game press releases?

Line Rider, available exclusively on the Wii Shop Channel!

Food for thought.