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Swordmasterman on 15 October 2016
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WoodenPints said:
DannyDesario said:

Why do you think no 3rd parties care about the Wii U?  The ports aren't porfitable regardless of being on an extra platform (Batman, Mass Effect, ect), but they are time consuming.  If Wii U sales were lit, devs would be throwing shovelware on there left and right.  They won't make money off Xbox One if they can't even make their 10 million unit break even goal.  lol  The X1 port doesn't pay for itself.

Wii U is a different story all together for getting games ported to it compared to porting games between X1 and PS4 since it's vastly different in power and architecture, As an example If they need 10m to break even and they get that on the PS4 that's all good but then there is no profit in there for them but taking the time to make the games avaliable on Xbox One and PC even if the PS4 outsells them at 5/6 to 1 ratio thats an extra 1.5-2m sales on each of the platforms taking the total to 13-14m and the investment to make it avaliable on other platforms turns to profit.

I don't know much about the Wii U's hardware, but I think that it is more powerful than the PS3 and Xbox 360. Even so they released games for the previous gen and nothing for the Wii U. In the kickstarter campaing of a racing game, I think that was Project Cars, they included a Wiiu version, but I don't know if they already released that.

You need time to develop to other consoles.  The game need to marketed in both versions + production costs. Those companies need to make profit in the hundreds of millions with those games.

If it is an extra 15-20 millions to make the Xbox One version and it only sells 1 million with the profit rate of 30US$ per unit, it won't be enought for Square or for other big companies. 

Square is the tipe of company that makes big and small games, if they lend 30-50 people for the Xbox One's version, they would  get more money if those people work in another game instead. Like their mobile games, or  other games like World of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest builders/heroes etc. That will probably sell more  than the Xbox One's version of FFXV, Kingdom Hearts 3.