Maybe its poorly optimized because Nintendo developed the console for themselves rather than making it easily accessible to Ubisoft. There is no reason to risk giving the Wii U the definitive version of a game, when its userbase is so small. Its a self perpetuating problem, and the only way to address it is to provide incentives for development on the Wii U. Nintendo has placed themselves in the position where, it would be best for them to moneyhatt multiplats. 

I'm sure if Nintendo offered to publish Minecraft on WiiU and 3DS it'd come to them too. Sony are publishing Minecraft on PS3/PS4 and Vita.

People will ignore things like this and continue to believe that isn't Nintendo's fault.

This! Those filthy Vita haters!

But then you see Nintendo's side of the problem: why pay for what others are getting for free? Nintendo would have to put money down to make it appear and go further to make the version on Wii U worth the moneyhat in the first place (even though it likely won't be).

Would you ask the farmer to sow his seeds on dead, parched soil?

Besides, not even once in thirty years Nintendo actually released a home console that was appealing to third parties. They all suffered from bad architecture, or bad choice of media, were significantly underpowered or tightly controlled by censorship...

Companies make decisions to achieve profit. That's it. Wii U flops all 3rd party games and 3DS isn't much better for them.

Luck is when it happens once or twice ....how is every hardware console released by nintendo turns a profit is "luck" lol.. it's called smart business and what you call rambling is fact ...my point is nintendo never had or has to rely on third party like Sony and Microsoft does and nintendo makes a profit from not having to recoup any loss on any product they produce because they don't take a loss on their software or hardware when it's produced except the wii u ...nothing I said isn't fact ....nintendo hasn't had great third party support  since super nes  ...so how would you call that "luck"when the wii and the GameCube and the nintendo 64 turned a profit ....you stated shovelware what does that have to do with profits I'm stating first party software is where the money is at ...why do you think they profited off the GameCube and nintendo 64 era ....software ....in which nintendo as a company has sold over 4 billion units of software if you don't believe me look it up lol smh also answering your question when has Sony or Microsoft made profits since their existence in the video console business ...Microsoft ...zero. 5 billion loss ...Sony mostly loses two or three billion loss  ...nintendo 20 billion profits I can provide the chart for you to show all gains and losses up until 2010

3rd parties are skipping out on Nintendo because...

- The Wii U is selling poorly, and...
- Nintendo's audience doesn't support 3rd party efforts unless it's a dancing or party game.

Two of the biggest 3rd party franchises received installments on the Wii U this past holiday season... COD Ghosts and ACIV.

Here is what COD Ghosts sold across all platforms...

And here's what AC IV sold across all platforms...

No matter how you slice it, those are absolutely pathetic numbers.  And these aren't watered down ports... the Wii U versions have all the same features as their PS360 counterparts, and were released the same time as the other versions, which are two things that Nintendo fans complain most about 3rd party efforts.

These developers and others take a look at the numbers and then say to themselves "why bother?"  It's just not worth the effort for them.  And I guarantee you if GTAV was on the Wii U it would have sold just as poorly as those two games, which would have been the ultimate black eye for Nintendo.  Luckily Rockstar and Take Two spared them the humiliation.