14 DAY TRIAL // Video game hardware developer and publisher Nintendo will not spend any money in order to secure exclusive rights to games for the upcoming Wii U home console, but the company is willing to partner up with developers in order to create ideas that cannot be created on any other kind of device.
Satoru Iwata, who is the president and the chief executive officer of Nintendo, stated, “While Nintendo is not entirely opposed to exploring that option, I don't think it would be an appropriate course of action for Nintendo to get into a battle with a company like Microsoft over the cost or the expense of trying to go head to head in a situation to try to obtain exclusive rights.”
He also said, “If a third-party developer or publisher has come up with an idea of a potentially very unique use of the Wii U functionality with such a device, there is a high possibility that Nintendo will be a partner with that third-party in an unprecedented manner.”
The leader of Nintendo says that, in order to secure solid games for the WII U, the company is ready to offer unprecedented access and resources to those teams who have good and innovative ideas.
Nintendo is unwilling to pay in order to secure exclusive titles because it has a number of in-house development teams that are very capable of creating big titles, linked to such popular franchises like Legend of Zelda, Mario or Pikmin.
The publisher has also been able to secure Wii U releases for more mainstream games like Assassin’s Creed III from Ubisoft and Batman: Arkham City, in order to show off the processing power of the new hardware.
Nintendo has also announced that it is working with Warner Bros on LEGO City: Undercover and with Tecmo on a new Ninja Gaiden 3 title called Razor’s Edge.