Løbet er kørt for Nintendo, når det kommer til tredjepartsudviklere. Det er ganske enkelt for sent at forsøge at overbevise dem om Wii U's dyder. Det siger Bethesdas vicepræsident for PR og markedsføring, Pete Hines.
Ifølge MCV siger Hines, har Sony og Microsoft længe været i dialog med udviklere og udgivere om deres nye konsoller, og hvad de kunne forvente sig af den nye hardware.
Det har Nintendo derimod ikke gjort, siger Hines, og antyder at Nintendo bare designede en konsol og lancerede den uden input fra udviklere og udgivere:
"The time for convincing publishers and developers to support Wii U has long past. The box is out", siger Pete Hines.
"You have to do what Sony and Microsoft has been doing with us for a long time. And it's not that every time we met with them we got all the answers we wanted but they involved us very early on and talked to folks like Bethesda and Gearbox and saying, here's what we're doing, here's what we're planning, here's how we think it's going to work. To hear what we thought, from our tech guys and form an experience standpoint, what we thought".