Shigeru Miyamoto wanted the SNES to be an indie powerhouse a full 10 years ahead of its time
Nintendo could've beaten the Xbox 360 to that whole console indie gaming thing
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A recently translated interview with Shigeru Miyamoto has shed some light on Nintendo’s plans to make a major SNES peripheral a haven for indie devs - a full decade before indie gaming on consoles would become a proper reality.
That peripheral was the Satellaview, a satellite modem for the SNES’s Japanese equivalent, the Super Famicom. The Satellaview would essentially let you download games and other media to your console through satellite broadcasts, making …
