News today that Nintendo is trying to poach developers for Microsoft's XBLA service and bringing them to the Nintendo's Wiiware service with the prospect of cheaper development costs meaning programmers can be more flexible with their pricing. The SDK that Nintendo provides to developers is very detailed and the cost of the Wii hardware is considerable cheaper as well. 3 or 4 PS3 or Xbox 360 development kits is apparently the same price as just one Wii hardware kit.
One anonymous developer had this to say, "Nintendo has made it very clear to us that we'll not only be making a better
royalty rate from WiiWare games, but we'll also have a better chance of selling
games -- the service won't be clogged up with the retro titles that have
blighted the chances of many independent studios on Xbox Live Arcade."
Yet another source added, "Frankly, we're not looking at making games for Xbox Live Arcade because the
service is full of s***."
Cop that, MS.