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curl-6 on 22 December 2016
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AngryLittleAlchemist said:
curl-6 said:

"The game's director, Fumihiko Yasuda, told Nintendo Gamer the console was "very easy to develop for"" (Ninja Gaiden 3 dev)

“@jimmyelgringito: How was it developing the game for Wii U? Is the Wii U easy to develop for?” The coders found it easier than expected!" 

“Technically, it’s one of the easier platforms to develop for. We had our core game up and running on it in a very short amount of time. There were no major problems for us developing the Wii U version, other than making sure we had a dedicated team to do it justice. For a new platform, it was surprisingly easy to port it to the Wii U.” (Darksiders II dev)

"A good thing about Wii U is that it's very easy to develop for." (Shin'en)

From your own articles : 

"Nintendo took pains this time to make the Wii U easier to develop for, guys. That report is based on really really old info." Is this even a positive post I mean it sounds like he's saying their lying that's really quite unclear.

 

Team Ninja - The makers behind Metroid Other M. Great source bud.

"Indie developer Shin’en Multimedia has made about two dozen small titles for various Nintendo platforms over the years, and they’re fully supporting the Wii U as well. In an interview with SuperPhillip, Shin’en’s Manfred Linzner said that the Wii U was not only very easy to develop for, but it doesn’t have many of the limitations that current generation consoles have." 

To clarify - in this article, he says that the ONLY IMPROVEMENTS he's scene is his own personal improvement at developing for the system, not support from Nintendo. He basically just says that they're getting better at dveloping with it every day, and that they think they've only tapped into 20% of the power. Nothing to do with Nintendo support or ease of use.

"So 60fps at 1080p and easier than ever before, that’s a lot of good news in one twitter stream"

 

Also, you literally used the same developers in 2 different articles - one wasn't even an article but a forumn. What was the point of that?

 

So  let's round this up : Team Ninja - uncredible. One from an indie developer who's made a lot of profit on Wii, and admits that the Wii U isn't easy to develop for. HIS UPDATED THOUGHTS only say that they're learning more about the Wii U everyday, and are impressed that they think they've only unlocked 20% of it's power. One literally is an indie developer just saying we have 60fps 1080. One post doesn't even seem positive(it sounds more like he's being negative towards it...I mean it was posted in jan of 2014 so it's possible). The only great source you provided was from the Darksiders developers.

None of this disproves that the developers are acting differently to switch.

The report he's referring to was news at the time of the console being weak. "Nintendo took great pains to make Wii U easy to develop for" isn't unclear at all.

And Team Ninja making Other M has no detrimental bearing on their testimony regarding technical development; in fact, it bolsters it, as Other M, for all its gameplay and story faults, is one of the most technically advanced games on Wii.

Shin'en's CEO flat out called it "very easy to develop for". That's pretty unambiguous.

So right there you have Shin'en, Team Ninja, Activision, and Vigil all on record saying Wii U is easy to develop for.

How much developer testimony can you provide that Wii U was not easy to develop for?