Nintendo vil satse litt mer på indiespill til deres Wii U. Dette bekrefter Dan Adelman (Nintendos business development manager), og han sier at han forventer omtrent 20 til 30 indiespill til konsollen innen året er omme, skriver Joystiq.
Adelman innrømmer selvkritisk at Nintendo ikke har vært spesielt åpne for indieutviklere tidligere, men mener de kan forandre dette ved å gjøre plattformene deres mer tilgjengelige for nettopp dette formålet.
Han sier:
- Historically, Nintendo has seemed kind of hard to approach, kind of like there's a closed system where if a developer already knows somebody at Nintendo or has some kind of 'in', they're in, but otherwise there's no way to interface with the company. I think we're putting a lot of effort into changing that and making ourselves more accessible, so I really want to make sure that people realize that it's actually pretty easy now - and we're trying to make it easier - to work with us and release games on our systems.
- Our guiding philosophy is that if you're able to make games on Nintendo platforms, we want to help make sure that you can do that on our systems. Our primary consideration is an ability to make a game. You don't have to have a record of published titles, or have to have worked at a large company in the past.
- If you're actively working on a game, that should be sufficient.
Med tanke på det store fokuset bransjen har på indiespill, så er det ikke rart at Nintendo tilstreber å bli tilgjengelige for disse utviklerne. Og hvem takker vel nei til flere spill til Wii U?