During an investors call, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata affirmed that the company won't address the lack of third party titles on Wii U by offering third party developers financial incentives.
Satoru noted that "another company" (cough, cough, Sony, wink, wink) is spending "tens of billions of Yen" to gather third party support for its hardware. However, he doesn't believe this is the right way for Nintendo who has its own AAA development teams.
"I think it is natural that there is a difference between publishers who have the software development resources like Nintendo's to build a software lineup of their own and publishers who do not," he argued.
"Since former President Yamauchi passed away, I have been considering what he taught us in the end, and his words that the worst thing we can do in entertainment is to follow what others are doing spoke directly to my heart."
"Following and imitating others is the kind of reasoning that Nintendo tries to avoid the most, and while we certainly do not have a negative attitude toward strengthening our ties with third-party publishers, employing the same methodology as the other manufacturers would only lead to the most simplistic competitive approaches, such as price wars or money-giving that would never end. We would like to take a unique approach of our own and build sustainable relationships with our third-party publishers."
