NiKKoM said:
You want me not be asinine about it? Well ok: In the position that Nintendo is having with the 3DS they have by far the worst Indie scene of all the platforms.. PSN, Xbox Live, iOS and Android are way ahead of them.. I even would say that Ouya is ahead.. Is it better then before? Sure.. is it good.. meh.. to have games like gunman clive, Squids Odysee, Tengami, 1001 spikes ported over is not good enough.. With the lack of big 3rd party support the WiiU and the 3DS and the money Nintendo has because of the Wii they could have been THE indie console maker.. How long did it take them to have cross-buy? last month? Nintendo's indie support has been weak with no future vision behind it.. I hope his succesor does better..
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The eShop is still young, but it's clearly on it's way towards being just as vibrant as, if not more so than, any indie scene as on any other console.
And there is a vision to it: between the adoption of Unity for Wii U (which WiiU developers get free full access to with a dev kit, courtesy Nintendo) and the Nintendo Web Framework (using HTML, CSS and Javascript for games and apps), Nintendo has basically lowered the barrier of entry to their ecosystem more than any other gaming platform holder.
