Reggie - Nintendo wants to work with indie devs that have experience

“We’ve been clear that we want to work with independent developers who understand this business, who have experience in this business. These are people who spent time working with larger publishers and larger developers, but had that idea in the back of their head that they needed to bring to life … and so that’s the type of entity that we want to work with. These are talented developers. That’s different from the person who envisions themselves as a developer, but actually hasn’t necessarily created anything, who doesn’t necessarily understand what it takes in this business to create compelling content. That’s where we draw the line. I’ll tell you, if someone calls us tomorrow who has no experience in the gaming industry, but has a passion and has a great idea, our perspective would be, ‘Great, but get some experience. Understand your craft, and then come back to us.’” - Reggie Fils-Aime

Reggie and the rest of Nintendo are still backpedaling on what Reggie originally said about indie devs. I think they want to make sure that they don’t lose out on indie dev support for the upcoming eShop, but for some devs it might be too late.

Link