I've got to agree with Microsoft on this one. Nintendo were making claims that suggested that practically homebrew developers would be able to work on the Wii in the same way they can on the 360 when in reality WiiWare is pretty much for existing "proper / official" Wii developers only.

This isn't a sulky moan from a homebrew coder or a small developer who has been denied developer status, I work for a "proper / official" developer who is working on a WiiWare game. From our point of view it's great that not everyone can get on WiiWare as it means the service won't be swamped with too many games competing for too few sales.

F**k off with your rhetoric Microsoft, if you want to dirty-talk this much then quit the videogame market and go join the Republic campaign. C**ts.

Thanks for your insightful post, it was a pleasure to read...

I think Nintendo want to start WiiWare off with a high standard, so obviously their going to stick with the bigger, more trusted developers. As it goes on I think we'll gradually see smaller and smaller developers making WiiWare games.

New developer Nnnoooo (is that the right name?) are hardly an established developer, yet they are about to release Pop onto the UK (European?) service.

If it were not for a coding bug delay, that game would have been a launch day title and would have shown a more rounded set of developers.

Isn't "Defend your castle" (or whatever it is called) a game from a new developer too?

I agree with David Armstrong, I think Nintendo are aiming to launch with a high standard. Not only that but it is very likely that the truly independent developers will be less adept at making games and will more likely be slower to release?

And Microsoft shouldn't be so quick to mouth-off - the XNA creators club is a great idea and I hope it works out for them, but we've yet to see any of the final products so it could all go wrong for them.