We grabbed a snippet from SPOnG’s interview with Microsoft’s Chris Satchell, general manager, game developer group just awhile back, but the full interview wasn’t available. Today, you can now snoop through the entire 5-page interview for any Nintendo tidbits you can find:

SPOnG: What do you think to Nintendo’s strategy with WiiWare? Initially there was talk of independent developers, then you see companies like Square Enix with titles in the launch line-up. What do you think to the strategy?

Chris Satchell: I’ve been a little confused by WiiWare… The more I look at it, the more I’m confused, because it’s sort of doesn’t really look like almost something for independents. At best it’s what we would call a registered developer programme. It’s really a way for you to get hold of dev kits and the normal development environment when you’re not signed to a big publisher. Which is very different than what we’re doing with XNA, which is you can just go and download the tools and we’re gonna give you a distribution (platform) and the community will manage it, we’re going to completely enable you, versus ‘well, if you kind of work with us we can possibly kind of, back door or grandfather you into some kind of developer programme which is a lot like our professional developer programme’.

Full interview here