Why DLC suddenly doesn't matter, specifically WiiU?

[DucksUnlimited]

Mr Khan said:

DucksUnlimited said:

Mr Khan said:

DucksUnlimited said:

Galaki said:

DLC are normally cheap add-ons. But people seem to think it's like building a brand new game just because it's on WiiU and therefore not worth the effort.

Or are they just secretly scared that WiiU will dominate if it's given equal footing in a fight?

Yes, developers putting their games on the Wii U are secretly terrified that it might get a decent install base and make their games sell better. We all know how much the big publishers hate money!

 

Given their historical conduct on Nintendo home consoles, the idea of love for money overriding all other factors is, at best, questionable.

The idea that almost every third party publisher, and all of the people in high ranking positions in these companies, would rather lose out on potential money than support Nintendo because of some wide-spread secret vendetta across the entire videogame industry is, at best, some very poorly thought out nonsense.

It's either that, or they are morons across the board.

Pick whichever seems more likely, but no rationalization is otherwise possible.

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.