The Wii U to use Steam/origin?

[zarx]

Joelcool7 said:

zarx said:
I doubt that Nintendo would let other companies have their own store fronts as that would mean a lot of lost income for Nintendo. But in terms of support networks like Steamworks for PS3 definitely, so there won't be the restriction on the number and type of patches etc that MS currently impose, it would be interesting to see if Nintendo let EA sell DLC directly tho Valve (and Apple) seems to have blocked it when they tried it on steam games and I doubt Nintendo would be happy ether.

MMOs will also be interesting with the open online approach that Nintendo have been claiming, will Nintendo let publishers sell subscriptions to online games when the publlishers run the servers (at no cost to Nintendo) without giving Nintendo a cut?

Not necessarily, Nintendo could very easily impose the same amount of royaltees as they would on retail or downloadable software on their own store. What does it matter to Nintendo if a consumer buys the third party game on Steam or Origin or retail if Nintendo still makes their royaltees? Then if this actually boosts software sales and benefits hardware sales it could potentially mean higher profits off of every title found on Steam and Origin.

Not to mention Steam and Origin provide content Nintendo does not. If Nintendo collects royaltees on all these products I can't see a downside. Though I must say Nintendo's own downloadable content could not be over priced, meaning Nintendo would make Origin and Steam keep their software at a competitive price enabling Nintendo's software to continue selling.

I think the excperiance it would offer the consumer, one only found on PC. Would benefit Nintendo and the consumer in both Nintendo's profitability and the consumers personal experiance!

But they bet a bigger cut when they run the digital store, I really doubt they will let competing storefronts on the Wii U. And if they price fix the games and impose the same cut then there is no incentive for 3rd parties to run their own storefront unless they are going to fill it with ads or something. Nintendo are not going to do something that hurts their business and allowing competing storefronts would even if it's just by diverting customer attention away from other games because each store front would have an exclusive catalog, it would also be confusing for customers if they are looking for a game but they can't find it because they haven't gotten the Steam store app yet for example.