Nintendo is getting battered with bad news on a seemingly daily basis. On Wednesday came the news that games made with EA's Frostbite 3 game engine, such as the upcoming Battlefield 4, will not support Wii U. Now Avalanche Studios founder Christofer Sundberg, of Just Cause 2 fame, has revealed that his studio's Wii U development kits are "collecting dust", and that Nintendo is a difficult company to communicate with.
In an interview with Norwegian site Pressfire.no, via translation by NeoGaf, Sundberg stated that Avalanche Studios currently has no plans for working with Wii U, and that Nintendo has a small install base.
"We actually had some development kits that just collected dust," he said. "It's a bit sad, because we wanted to do something. I think it's a cool platform, but right now it's not just up to us. We want the game to reach as many as possible."
He also revealed that it’s quite a difficult affair to do business with Nintendo. “Nintendo have from our point of view has always been difficult to reach. You never quite know who to contact. Now, however, we have managed to get through, via the publisher we’re working with,” he added.
Sundberg, however, was sure that Nintendo could get a whole lot better if they took the same path as Sony. He said that Nintendo has a lot to gain by following Sony, and the company could grow by reaching out to developers to get more on board. However, third-party game developers have historically sold poorly on Nintendo's systems and things don't look to be changing with the Wii U.
He maintained that had Nintendo followed this path developers would have been more enthusiastic, and perhaps would be looking forward to making games for the system. It could be the use of GamePad controller for the Wii U or something else.
