Some hinting from Nintendo president

This Gamasutra interview with Nintendo president Satoru Iwata contains one item of possible great news:
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Regarding the idea behind the Wii platform's Virtual Console, which will allow for the digital distribution of online games, demos, and other content, Iwata stated in the interview: “When creating a packaged game to be priced at 5,000 yen, developers tend to feel the need to create a rich game. Yet it is possible to create a reasonably entertaining game in 2 months with a team of three.”

He continued: “Offering such games for 500 yen over a network could lead to a reasonable number of people purchasing it. By offering an environment that allows this, we hope to encourage more developers to pursue basic yet enjoyable gameplay."
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So, basically like XBox Live Arcade, yeah, but this is still great news. The more encouragement/funding is given to indie and homebrew developers for console games, the better. This is where the real innovation is going to come from-- semi-open development and distribution to mass audiences! But first, card games and shitty Tetris clones.