It seems to me like Nintendo doesn't really communicate with Western developers anymore to be honest.

It's kinda like their policy is basically to Western devs "hey man, you wanna support us, cool, if not, that's cool too" and they basically just leave it at that, lol.

I don't buy it, not for this case anyways. When it comes to indie games (which, generally, Minecraft is) Western Nintendo seems to be the one who actually cares, and who actually goes out of their way to try to recruit the developers. JWeinCom's links are all in regards to Western efforts, for example. By contrast, NCL seems to remain largely indifferent to the indie scene. Where NoA has approached several Western indie devs to try to secure their games, occasionally going to the extent of publishing the titles themselves, the only Japanese indie games hitting Nintendo platforms seem to come primarily from third-party developers, like Nicalis.

Exactly what I believe. Anyway, I'm not in the mood to start discussing about third-party's relationships with Nintendo since I know it won't matter, so I'll leave the thread here.

It should come to Nintendo platforms eventually. I don't see why not.

Happy to confirm we're developing Minecraft PS3, PS4 & PS Vita Editions for Mojang, as well as Xbox 360 & Xbox One Editions!

— 4J Studios (@4JStudios) August 21, 2013

Actually 4J is not with Microsoft. Nice try though. Sony isn't supplying the dev studio. It is going to be 4J. I really wish people would not open their mouths without factual evidence. If you read anything I said I stated OTHER DEVELOPERS. Even smaller indie ones have stated the gamepad is easy to learn. If there is a Wii-U minecraft it will most likely be 4J. It isn't even like 4J hasn't done ports to the PS3 before. Of course you seem to like to live ignorant so I wouldn't put it past you to not know what you're talking about. 

Here's why! Nintendo need an Adam Boyes of their own.  

It's very clear by this point that Nintendo doesn't put as much effort into these stuff as Sony and MS.

I put the blame on Nintendo. Why? Because they make their games a bit too good.

They should lower the bar a bit, make their games worse. That way third parties don't have to put that much effort on their games, and they won't look that bad when compared to Nintendo's.

Damn you Nintendo, damn you.

I reckon sales would go bananas on the Wii U once its install base gets up. Seems like a perfect fit. Oh well maybe the guy who makes it just doesn't like the big N.

First, I never said 4J was _with_ microsoft. Second, I said Sony _might_ be providing the studio. Now we know different, that it will be 4J that develops all the new versions of Minecraft. Which then also means, yay, they can re-use code they already created to move things along faster.

Thirdly, It really doesn't matter how easy it is to use the gamepad. Screw it, it could be as easy as UIGamePadObject blah = new UIGamePadObject(); etc. I still think its a dumb idea, but whatever. Doesn't mean that Nintendo cares about Minecraft and would help with the development costs. From what I can tell 4J has never done Wii U before. So that might also be a factor. But whatever you are right that it won't take extra time to develop the gamepad functionality, it will take more time to develop a whole new version of Minecraft!

Finally, I started out original post by saying _wait_ it will come eventually.

You can claim im ignorant all you want, but you make claims left and right that I didn't even say.

noname2200 was being obtuse and you are just being rude.

Most everything I said still stands. Mojang isn't developing the new versions. We know now that its 4J, which far as i can find has not done Wii U stuff. So who is going to do the Wii U development? If not 4J then it will be mostly all new code. Which takes time. Nintendo typically doesn't foot the bill on this stuff and doesn't seem to care about PC ported games anyway.

Even if that is not true and NOA approached Mojang about a Wii U/3DS version it will take time. The gamepad stuff I can easily concede, they apparently made it idiot proof. Still not a good idea, but whatever.