There is no indication that this has anything to do with homebrew of hobbyist developers. I very much doubt we will see any new or ported media players from this source. What we will have is independent developers being able to get a game out for 50-100K instead of a few million.
As for fighting back, I hardly think Nintendo are bothered in any way about a few dozen lines of ActionScript which allow some rudimentary button mapping in Flash.
WiiWare (US) and Wii Software (Europe) are certainly initiatives to bring original content to the Wii alongside the Virtual Console and Nintendo do appear to be courting smaller developers as well as the likes of EA, Sega and Ubisoft. But nowhere in any of the official announcements has there been any indication that this is akin to XNA or any attempt to bring hobbyist programmers into the fold. I've seen a few news sources repeat this, but it's not what Nintendo said in their Press Release.
There is a huge difference between encouraging professional independant development and allowing anyone with a home computer access to development tools.
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Re: Homebrew and fighting back
There is no indication that this has anything to do with homebrew of hobbyist developers. I very much doubt we will see any new or ported media players from this source. What we will have is independent developers being able to get a game out for 50-100K instead of a few million.
As for fighting back, I hardly think Nintendo are bothered in any way about a few dozen lines of ActionScript which allow some rudimentary button mapping in Flash.
Tool for all?
WiiWare (US) and Wii Software (Europe) are certainly initiatives to bring original content to the Wii alongside the Virtual Console and Nintendo do appear to be courting smaller developers as well as the likes of EA, Sega and Ubisoft. But nowhere in any of the official announcements has there been any indication that this is akin to XNA or any attempt to bring hobbyist programmers into the fold. I've seen a few news sources repeat this, but it's not what Nintendo said in their Press Release.
There is a huge difference between encouraging professional independant development and allowing anyone with a home computer access to development tools.