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Title: Wii U eShop Pricing, Patching in Hands of Publishers
Post by: NWR_DrewMG on November 17, 2012, 10:44:17 PM

Nintendo is taking a hands-off approach toward eShop prices.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/32526

Nintendo is allowing publishers to control the prices, and sales, of Wii U eShop content. 

In an IGN interview with Frozenbyte, developer of Trine 2, marketing manager Mikael Haveri said that "[the model is] very close to what Steam and Apple are doing right now, and very indie friendly."

In addition, Haveri stated that Nintendo is allowing developers to patch their games at no additional charge.

"Simply put they've told us that there are no basic payments for each patch (which were pretty high on most platforms) and that we can update our game almost as much as we want," Haveri said. "For indie developers this is huge."

Nintendo has historically taken flack for being too controlling with the Wii Shop Channel, forcing prices publishers weren't comfortable with or not allowing sales or demos. All indications are that Nintendo seems to have taken a wildly different approach with Wii U.

Title: Re: Wii U eShop Pricing, Patching in Hands of Publishers
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 17, 2012, 10:49:44 PM

Considering Microsoft gives just one free patch and then charges $40,000 per update, indie developers should love this (which is why Fez has a major bug that won't be fixed because developer Phil Fry refuses to pay Microsoft the $40K to issue the patch even thought the bug was his fault).

Title: Re: Wii U eShop Pricing, Patching in Hands of Publishers
Post by: Oblivion on November 17, 2012, 10:56:19 PM

If they're doing this with the Wii U, why won't they do this with the 3DS?

Title: Re: Wii U eShop Pricing, Patching in Hands of Publishers
Post by: Mop it up on November 17, 2012, 11:11:58 PM

This is good news, all of the restrictions on WiiWare didn't make much sense.

Title: Re: Wii U eShop Pricing, Patching in Hands of Publishers
Post by: shingi_70 on November 17, 2012, 11:36:54 PM

Excellent quite excellent indeed.

Title: Re: Wii U eShop Pricing, Patching in Hands of Publishers
Post by: alegoicoe on November 18, 2012, 12:18:04 AM

its always good to have indie developers by your side, kudos to nintendo.

Title: Re: Wii U eShop Pricing, Patching in Hands of Publishers
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 18, 2012, 09:04:54 AM

PC Port Haven, as requested, incoming :)

Good Job Nintendo

(http://i.imgur.com/vnxod.gif)

Title: Re: Wii U eShop Pricing, Patching in Hands of Publishers
Post by: tendoboy1984 on November 18, 2012, 09:16:31 AM

How does this compare to what Sony does on PSN? Are they more hands-off than Microsoft?

Title: Re: Wii U eShop Pricing, Patching in Hands of Publishers
Post by: MrPhishfood on November 18, 2012, 11:03:02 AM

I can see things going out of balance if indies started chaging $1 for their games.

Title: Re: Wii U eShop Pricing, Patching in Hands of Publishers
Post by: joshnickerson on November 18, 2012, 03:04:25 PM

I would imagine there's some sort of standard minimum price.

Title: Re: Wii U eShop Pricing, Patching in Hands of Publishers
Post by: Louieturkey on November 19, 2012, 12:05:36 AM

If prices get down to $1, I may be buying a lot of games.

Title: Re: Wii U eShop Pricing, Patching in Hands of Publishers
Post by: Mop it up on November 19, 2012, 09:12:37 PM

My guess is that the minimum price is $2, but that isn't much different from having $1 games.

Title: Re: Wii U eShop Pricing, Patching in Hands of Publishers
Post by: Kytim89 on November 19, 2012, 09:47:57 PM

Does anyone think that game companies like Activision or Ubisoft would eventually discount the prices of games like Assassin's Creed 3 and Black Ops 2?

Title: Re: Wii U eShop Pricing, Patching in Hands of Publishers
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 19, 2012, 10:14:58 PM

Quote from: Kytim89 on November 19, 2012, 09:47:57 PM

Does anyone think that game companies like Activision or Ubisoft would eventually discount the prices of games like Assassin's Creed 3 and Black Ops 2?

They rarely do on XBLA and PSN.