GamesIndustry.biz interviewed Ron Carmel (2D Boy), Nic Wat (Nnooo), David Walsh (Frontier) and Tom Gaubatz (Mastiff). Some quotes:

GamesIndustry.biz: Why WiiWare…as opposed to Xbox Live Arcade or PlayStation Network?

Ron Carmel: I think Xbox Live sucks now. Their royalty rate…I don’t know why any developer would go there. I don’t think any developer wants to sell their game at the royalty rate they’re paying.

Dan Adelman of Nintendo contacted us a while back. He had heard of Kyle’s work and really like it and talked to us about possibly doing something for Wii. At that point, I don’t think WiiWare was announced.

GamesIndustry.biz: Was the Wii’s memory limitation a problem for development? And if consumers fill up the memory, will they need to erase WiiWare games in order to download new ones?

David Walsh: There are memory limits. Just like there are fixed sizes of discs, there is a fixed size of files you can download.

I understand the question. I think it is probably not for me to answer if Nintendo hasn’t said how that is going to be addressed. I think they do have plans…

GamesIndustry.biz: Are you concerned that the demographics of the Wii’s installed base might be such that there might not be a sizable number of people interested in downloading games – or even technologically savvy enough to do so?

David Walsh: We have obviously heard some of the estimates from Nintendo about how many Wii’s have actually been online and it is actually quite significant. But, yes, you’re absolutely right.

You are absolutely right that there is a question as to how the mass market who bought their Wii to play tennis with and stuff like that would even know about it.

A couple of interesting things – I think that Nintendo probably will be doing a lot of education and marketing of what you can do on the Wii. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but in the UK a really big deal has just happened. The BBC has this thing called iPlayer, which they’ve had for about a month now, which is basically this video on demand download service. It’s actually become this very big deal.

Nintendo just signed a deal with the BBC to get that on the Wii. Out of all the three – Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft. So, actually, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that Wii will become a sort of living room internet access.

Full Interview HERE

Thanks wsippel for the quotes