Wow, that's one nasty post.

Yeah, just an HD port huh?

It's not worth.

What I take from it, developers have problems due to ram and the cpu. Thought the cpu can do more per cycle compared to ps3 and x360, its slower, and lacks in overall power compared to ps4 and xone since they have more cores. Couple this with a fraction of the ram in comparison, engines are tougher to run.

pc, xbox, ps4:                                                         wiiU:

1.  If that was your point, then it is irrelevant, because it has nothing to do with what I said.  " The Wii U is based on IBM's power pc. It's not necessarily more difficult, but since most third party games run on x86 architecture natively, it means extra work to port."  

I don't know why you're trying to counter things I never said.

2.  No we are not.  Elliot Quest was one example given, not what the topic was about.  Having about 1/5 of the RAM of rival consoles is obviously a huge impediment to ports.

3.  Yes, more power does mean easier to develop for.  More power is objectively better than less power.  Of course, if other consoles were using some sort of bizarre architecture (i.e. Sega Saturn) then that could be a problem, but even in such a situation, a more powerful weird architectured system would be better than a weaker weird architectured system.  And, both Microsoft and Sony are using perfectly normal architecture.

And no, this topic was not simply about Elliot's quest.  And whether you're making a huge open world game or an indie game, scaling it down to run on weaker hardware will always pose some difficulty. 

PC, Xbox, and PS4 use an archaic British imperial measurement of velocity? While Wii U uses the global standard?

There's no "difficult" hardware any more. The days of there being an N64, PS3, or Saturn or something are pretty much over.

But in light of everything being relatively straight forward to work with, the Wii U's little squibble's do cause some headaches for developers by virtue of being different.

Wii U is a generation the PS4/XB1, that's the main problem without the userbase of the PS3/360. So it get ignored by devs.

If it was a 1TFLOP machine with 8GB RAM, the support may not be the best, but it would still likely be getting quite a few third party games.

The problem is NOT that Nintendo can't develop fast enough on WiiU, it's that their resources are scarcely shared between WiiU and 3DS so they don't have enough teams to provide a fair stream of games throughout the year. But for the situation they are in, and the quality of the games they keep pumping up, they are pulling miracles as of now.

They just need more teams. 

PS Didn't remember how gorgeous Super Mario 3D World is.

Those two contradict each other. Having unique architecture causes headaches for other developers. Having the same power output as 2006 consoles while in a generation taking place in 2015 will definitely cause headaches for anyone trying to make ports. These two put together makes the system difficult to develop for. May not be as difficult as the Saturn, but it is difficult nonetheless