Nintendo offering "insane" incentives for digital Wii U publishers

Nintendo will offer bigger revenue cuts on digital downloads for the Wii U than other gaming platform providers, according to a report.

A source working for a European developer” toldWii U Dailythat the console giant is offering insane incentives to publishers to sell on its new eShop.

He said that Nintendo learned from the WiiWare, building a new platform that is perfect for indie developers.

They’re offering insane incentives for publishers to sell retail games as downloads on the console,” he said.You’d be stupid not to take advantage of it and go retail box-only. 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."

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