They can cover half the cost of dev and or porting.
Simple enough aint it, if they them self's had any believe a 3rd party games selling well and being profitable they could go 50/50 and if it sales they would get their money back.
How they can gain third party support? Easy!
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3rd party is no longer an option, they've mostly left since the launch of The U. Nintendo must make more genres that will attract a wider audience, but with development time/costs and all that would miss the Wii U. Higher sales MIGHT bring back some support.
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Rayman Legends sold that well on WiiU because it used to be an exclusive before, which means that people already bought a WiiU during launch in order to play Rayman Legends a few months later (obviously it got delayed then).
Now assuming one owns either PS3 or 360 and a WiiU, people would obviously buy the WiiU version since that was the justification (or one of many) for even getting the console.
Answering your original question. It's just not worth the time. You need a team and several months of time to get a port done. For the big publishers it's not good enough to break even or even make some tiny profit. They get far more money in the long run by letting that team work with others on a bigger project, so that this project gets better and/or finished earlier.
The way WiiU could gain more third party games is similar to what MS and Sony are doing here and there. If the publishers don't think its worth it, pay them a certain amount or go to the devs (if they own the IP) and be their publisher by paying for the dev costs, distribution and marketing. That's how the WiiU got LEGO City Undercover, Sonic The Lost World, Sonic Boom, The Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta 2.
what they need to do is focus on the next System
Talk to all the 3rd parties EXCEPT EA as they are part of the reason the Wii U is were is now with their unprecedented support and praises of how powerful and great the Wii U hardware is.
Well wii u owners should buy watchdogs, project cars and sonic boom. Plus when mk8 drops hopefully a a fair few will buy ac4 and some lego games too. I expect a fairly biggish growth in software through june july for wii u
| awesomeabe1998 said: There are a hand few of Third parties on the Wii U that are getting shown love. Rayman and Project Cars are two of them. Why aren't companies porting their games to Wii U? Is it that expensive to port a game to Wii U. Before you go on telling me that Wii U is weak, why are games getting ported to PS360? I know Wii U uses PowerPC and PS4 and XB1 use a different infastructure, but it still is not that expensive to port a game to the Wii U. |
Pay them.
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