Bethesda/Gearbox point out why they don't support Wii U

[johnlucas]

S.T.A.G.E. said:
To the Nintendo-heads who don't believe its really Nintendo that are holding themselves back from third parties, this is what I have been saying all along. Nintendo creates their consoles without truthfully consulting third parties to see what they think. These aren't the days when third parties were under their control and didnt have a liberating entity to give them different hardware architecture whilst commanding the mass marketshare.

Nintendo is Dad. The 3rd Party are The Kids.
Dad pays the bills. He doesn't HAVE to consult The Kids on what to do with the house.
The 3rd parties have been spoiled by Sony & Microsoft over the years.
It's because Sony & Microsoft are not really gamemakers & depend on 3rd party developers to supply content for their systems.

But that's not the way it used to be done.
The 1st Party matters most because they take the risk in developing the platform as well as the games that will play on it.
That's how it used to be.
That's how it will be again once Nintendo finally UNIFIES this industry & ends this standoff that has been going on for the past 20 years.

You don't get the level of innovation that Nintendo produces by asking the 3rd parties if it's OK to do something.
We would probably never have the Control Pad (D-Pad) if Nintendo asked contemporary developers how the control should be.
They would probably say "like the Atari Joystick!"

It's time for the 3rd parties to learn their place.
This is gonna be the last generation we see this kind of foolishness from them.
John Lucas

P.S.: Remember, your 3rd parties promoted that BS you saw Microsoft trot out here at E3 2013 with the XBox One.
They need to be reined in.