They did NOT treat 3rd parties with respect during GC era!

At GDC 2000, most software houses were already well into production with PlayStation 2 and Xbox titles, but very few developers had signed up to create games for Nintendo’s Dolphin. According to various sites, Dolphin was the butt of jokes at GDC, and one major respected developer told IGN, “We’ll develop for Dolphin in five years when Nintendo finally releases some information on it”. Another developer said, “Nintendo is making the same old mistakes, it’s not giving us any incentive to bother with Dolphin”.

At the same event, Bill Gates called for mass developer support to drive the Xbox, and Microsoft was aggressively pursuing third party developers by delivering development kits to as many studios as possible. Technical director Jim Merrick admitted to IGN that it did not yet have a formal development program in place.  He suggested that potential Dolphin developers could prepare for Nintendo’s future system by creating prototypes of their games on the highest performance PC that can be configured

In the December 2000 issue of Next Gen Magazine, approximately 7 months after GDC, Hiroshi Imanishi said they are not approaching third parties to make games for GameCube. Instead, they expect third parties to come to them once the GameCube starts growing their install base.

CNN reported that Nintendo was charging a much higher licensing fee for GameCube ($11) while Microsoft and Sony charged ($7 – $9). This fell in line with a report from IGN that Microsoft was charging $8 (and possibly lower) licensing fee standard. One major publisher admitted to IGN that Microsoft had been very accommodating when it comes to fees.

Technical director Jim Merrick said, “We are now and will be in a shortage condition for development kits for a long time to come. But going to low-cost disc-based media is breaking down some of the economic barriers that publishers felt toward the cartridge-based business. So we have a lot of interest. And we’re not going to be able to satisfy the demand for development kits. In fact, probably six months after the Gamecube launches we’ll still be in a shortage of development kits. We just can’t produce them fast enough.”

Read these quotes from this article: http://www.dromble.com/2014/01/07/dolphin-tale-story-of-gamecube/

Does that sound like Nintendo treated developers with RESPECT?! NO! Nintendo have always treated 3rd parties with a certain amount of... disdain.

No it IS too different. WiiU does not have an x86 architecture cpu. XBO, PS4 and PC do. XBO and PS4 both have 8gb of ram while WiiU has 2gb of ram. XBO and PS4 both have very similair gpu's, the PS4's being a bit more powerful. GPU TFLOPS: PS4: 1.84, XBO:1.31, WiiU: 0.352

The difference between the WiiU and XBO/PS4 compared to the difference between the PS4 and XBO is a lot and the greater the difference the more work is required to port a game between systems. If developers want to develop next-gen title it will be with 8gb of ram in mind, downgrading these titles so they can run with only 2gb of ram would require a lot of effort, the other alternative would be holding games back and developing them with 2gb of ram in mind.

WiiU is too different and would require changes when games are developed with the other next-gen systems in mind.

If all you have to say about them not being too different is that they are "gpu focused machines" I don't think this is the discussion for you.

Wii U's GPU doesn't have 0.35 tflops, forget that. Wii U's memory is better than you think due to edram. you speak as if we have an alien level of architeture difference. And this is a time where dev tools are very scalable.

Short term? They had a shortage 6 months in to the GC life! Getting a dev kit them would mean it would take you maybe a year to get out your first game for the console... The licensing fee shows that Nintendo doesn't really care about 3rd party support since their competitors had lower fees; had Nintendo really cared they would have lowered them and/or been flexible. Like MS apparently was.

And I would like to direct you to:

Is that respect? A little support wouldn't kill Nintendo. Making sure 3rd parties knows the ins and outs of your console is beneficial to everyone

"They had a shortage 6 months in to the GC life! Getting a dev kit them would mean it would take you maybe a year to get out your first game for the console... The licensing fee shows that Nintendo doesn't really care about 3rd party support since their competitors had lower fees"

1. short term. 2. Still trying to see how a little higher fee = not caring, especially when nintendo depends on games alone.

"Iwata gave many 3rd party developers an ultimatum: develop for the WiiU alone or not at all."

"Is that respect? A little support wouldn't kill Nintendo."

It's not respect, but it's not true either. ultimatum, lol.

Why don't you go a head and adress the other 3rd party games I mentioned then? How could Ubisoft be happy with Red Steel 2 selling 600k? Or No More Heroes? Truth is, mature 3rd party games on Wii didn't do all that well, especially if you compare it with how well they did on PS360