WiiU gamers should be happy they don't have to deal with the BS of DLC. A majority of it is content that should have been in the day 1 release but is held off for "season passes" or as pre-order/day one DLC to entice more full price sales.

But Wii U owners still have to deal with it. It's not as though the DLC is being included with the games -- whatever content is held back is still held back. The difference is that if you buy the Wii U version, you can't buy the additional content even if you want to.

Maybe they realise people won't pay for DLC on Wii U when it seems that Nintendo is intent on providing it for free.

I don't doubt that it will hurt sales to some extent, particularly for those people with multiple consoles who will do a tick-box comparison. In the end thought I don't think it should matter that much to too many people given the purchase rate for most DLC, but I can understand people not liking it in principle.

DLC doesn't matter to consumers.

I highly doubt there are many people that buy a game because of it having DLC.

Nearly all the consumers of a would have already boughten the game or will still buy the game regardless of if it has DLC or not.

Now DLC to business do matter. Pretty sure DLC is like the developers accessories. Just like consoles, phones, ect make a shit ton of money on their propeitary accessories that they mark up 900% so do the developers make a shit ton of money on DLC.

It's a cheap way for them to make quick and easy money.

It's because the wiiU uses inferior tech and doesnt have stroage space, which is essential to be able to add content.

That's bullshit^

Or they know that they likely won't get a justifiable ROI seeing as how these companies actually know what these games cost to port to the system and can estimate based on previous performance what revenue will look like. 

If you honestly think that is less likely than your conspiracy theory, I don't really know what to tell you. Do you think new employees at these companies are trained to hate Nintendo? Do employees have to demonstrate their hatred of Nintendo in order to get promoted? These companies span across the world in different countries with different leadership and business strategies. Some of them are relatively new, some have been around for decades. The idea of a global consensus among all new and old employees of every major publisher on the planet for several decades that damaging Nintendo is a higher priority for their company than making money is, well, ridiculous. Unless you have any sort of evidence for this being the reason for limited third party support, having this conversation with you is beyond pointless.

Surely one of these millions of employees/ex-employees must have leaked something over the past thirty years or so. That could be a good place to start.

You're engaging in reducto ad absurdum too. It does not need to be a conspiracy at all levels, just a few bruised egos, a few misunderstandings, at choice levels that lead to the bad decisions being made (along with the analysts constantly running interference to keep the investors from complaining).

There have been few proven instances where a company gave actual good support to Nintendo consoles and got burned for the effort. ROI is all well and good to speak of, but where's the backing?

All of the casuals have gone away. We don't have to worry about having a dumb community anymore.

... Just a small one.

people have lesser money to spend and wiiu isn't exactly the hot product on the market