Why don't larger devs give Wii U owners a chance through kickstarter or sites like it

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SpokenTruth said:

DonFerrari said:

And it doesn't seem that either is really interested in giving the first step nor that Nintendo intends to really push it.

Fair statement.  

For Nintendo, there is a balance they must consider.   Push enough to attract non-Nintendo traditionalist consumers but not so much that it impacts their own products.

For 3rd parties, they seem to have a good thing going with what they've established on the other platforms.

Truth be told, solid and sustained 3rd party support (as we currently view it) will never return to Nintendo consoles.

I know you mean software, but it already has impacted their own product. Nintendo has only sold 9 - 10 million Wii Us (9.2 is the lower bound, we can only estimate the upper bound based on NPD, Famitsu/MC), compared to Sony's 22.3 million. While VGC tracking may be suspect, and MS is being deliberately silent on the matter, the Xbox One has also outsold the Wii U nearly every NPD.

Nintendo's inward-looking nature gave us the Wii and the Wii U. When they are able to work on their own terms, they flourish. They have to work on the industry's terms, they flounder. Nintendo got caught off guard by HD development and shaders 5+ years after HD development started. That shouldn't've happened, but it did, and here we are. Here's some food for thought: The year that the Wii U was released, programmable shaders turned 10 years old.