Out of all the negative that has been spouted about the Wii U, there are positives that really make the Wii U and Nintendo stand out.  One of those is the massive amount of attention the company and their platform are receiving from independent game developers.  It has been no secret that Nintendo is trying to break down barriers to allow their platforms to be more accessible to smaller game studios.

This has proven to be a great strategy for Nintendo because now independent developers are flocking to the Wii U and 3DS like Nintendo has never seen before.  Even in a recent GameSpot interview with Dan Adelman, Manager of Business Development at Nintendo of America, the site asked him about Nintendo’s website WiiU-developers.Nintendo.com, which was announced at GDC in March, and what kind of response the website has received from the indie development community.

Adelman: The URL is WiiU-developers.Nintendo.com. It’s been overwhelming. We’ve gotten probably over 1,000, I don’t know if we’ve hit 2,000, developers with really wide-ranging levels of experience. We’ve got some who have recently left their jobs in mainstream publishers and are starting a new company, or have been indies for a while. All the way to high school students who are thinking of getting into game development and want to know more about it. So one of the challenges is going through and it’s ultimately a resource allocation issue at that point. We want to support everybody, so how do we do that in the most effective manner and how do we prioritize in just making sure that–our intent is to support everyone, really. The underlying philosophy is that if you can make a game on our systems, we want to find a way for you to be able to do that.

It has been really exciting seeing the slow trickle of new indie titles appearing on the Wii U and 3DS eShop in recent weeks.  This can only be the beginning of what will surely be a huge catalog of independently developed games on Nintendo platforms.