Nintendo of America’s new CEO, Satoru Iawata, commented on several Wii U related topics in a recent Q&A session with investors. He spoke about the lack of third party developers and addressed the notion that the Wii U is under-powered.
Iwata said that Nintendo is looking to expand the range of software developers on the Wii U. Recently, the company started offering free Wii U dev kits to third party developers in order to get them on board the Wii U.
He also added that the Wii U now supports the Unity Engine, which “has hundreds of thousands of developers around the world”, according to Iwata. Nintendo plans on luring some of those developers to the Wii U platform.
When it came to the console specific issues, Iwata acknowledged that many gamers and developers believe that the console is under-powered.
But he doesn’t agree with that notion, saying that the “Wii U being under-powered” is a misconception. He added that Nintendo is working to “remedy these misunderstandings”.
Finally, Iwata admitted that it’s hard for Nintendo to convince third party developers to get on board the Wii U in its current state. Nintendo is working on “re-vitalizing” the Wii U this Summer and Fall. Earlier this month, Shigeru Miyamoto said that the main objective for Nintendo and the Wii U a this point was to make it more stable.
He didn’t specify what this “re-vitalizing” entails, but we hope it’s a combination of system updates, big game releases, and some Wii U promotion from Nintendo. Hopefully, it’ll start at E3 in June, which we’ve put down as the most important E3 for Nintendo ever.
Source (Nintendo)
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