Nintendo extending ‘insane incentives’ to third parties

Nintendo is offering publishers "insane incentives" to make their Wii U games available through the eShop as well in stores.

A European developer told Wii U Daily that Nintendo is taking an aggressive approach to ensure that both first and third party retail games reach the platform.

“They’re offering insane incentives for publishers to sell retail games as downloads on the console. You’d be stupid not to take advantage of it and go retail box-only,” the source said. “The new platform is perfect for indie devs, it’s a whole different ball game than WiiWare. They’ve learned a lot from that mess."

The source said the incentives boil down to a bigger revenue cut and promotions on the digital store.

"If they [Nintendo] pull it off and it gains traction, it’ll press the other guys [Microsoft and Sony] to give more of the revenue to the publishers," he said. "It’s very good for us who make games."

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