So, I guess I’m just saying that I think people’s expectations are playing a very large part in their enthusiasm (or lack thereof). No offense to your friend Casey intended.

Except Reggie said that they’re not going to cut the costs from the current devkit prices. It seems pretty cut-and-dry to me.

People wanted to believe WiiWare would be akin to XNA, but I don’t think I ever heard from Nintendo that it would be. The Wii dev kit is very aggressively priced, so there’s no questioning that it’s probably well within a modest budget of an indie studio that already has legal counsel, an office, etc. After all, you’ll at least have to be able to afford a rating for your game before it’ll be considered. It seems to me that Nintendo is lowering their infamously high barrier to entry, but not dropping it altogether.

That being said, I wouldn’t be surprised if once the first round of WiiWare offerings make a great impression on the public, if there wasn’t a special program launched just to support WiiWare.

Those development requirements he posted down the thread are from some time ago and do not necessarily apply to WiiWare dev.

Anyway, while I respect a cautious approach, I have yet to see anything that warrants the skepticism evident at the end of that link. It sounds like the result of inappropriately high expectations to me.

http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=453470