| johnlucas said: Why didn't GTA4 bounce up the hardware sales of the XBox 360 & PS3 like Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit do for the Wii? |
Just gotta address this. The reason GTA didn't have as noticable of an impact is because it was multiplatform. MGS4 released lately as an exclusive and had a very sizeable boost. I'm guessing FFXIII will be the same as GTAIV with a small boost to both, nothing to write home about to either.
@Kasz
Yea, I guess it shows effort. But no teaser for Mario/Zelda/Pikmin wasn't about Nintendo being lazy.
1- Nintendo's strategy of announcing games closer to release has been talked about to death. I'm surprised we even got mentions of Mario and Zelda considering neither will probably release for a while.
2- Like they have stated they want to focus on the casuals at E3 since the mainstream press attends. They can show off other games on any random Thursday and get the core excited as we'll always be following the latest news. The casuals won't.
