Nintendo: Not a lot of exclusive indie games on Wii U because “we don’t throw around cash”

[beeje13]

Also you can't say timed exclusive indies are always bad. Chances are, some of the smaller games wouldn't make it to console (at least straight away) without Sony/MS/Nintendo's support.

For example, freedev kits and tools for ID@Xbox members.

With NX things may change, but at the moment Nintendo is some way behind the other big two.