hanafuda on 08 September 2008
| bdbdbd said: @Hanafuda: Aside from Iwatas and Miyamotos public statements? No. I'm not going to do research for you, you need to look the statements by yourself, or maybe someone is so kind to link some of the statements. But the reason why Nintendo isn't hyping the games early, is because Nintendo already sell all the hardware they manufacture, so there's no need to promote hardware with upcoming games and most of the game sales are made outside the first weeks. Not announcing games early, leaves you a lot of aces to your sleeve, if the hardware sales starts to decline, they start announcing games earlier and it will boost sales again. Just look at when SMG, MP3 and Brawl were announced, 1-2 years prior to release to boost the hardware before Wii was launced. Expect Zelda Wii being announced in the way oh yeah, it's coming out tomorrow (although, it was announced being in production in early 2007). |
Sorry, but that makes no sense at all.
If all they are interested in is selling hardware, and they know Captain Rainbow isn't going to do that, then why even bother releasing it?
Also, only leaving a few weeks before announcing a game and then releasing it smacks me as either being incredibly stupid or incredibly cocky. In Wario Land's case it may be clawing its way to the 100K mark, but Captian Rainbow isn't going to be so lucky. In which case one can only summise that the strategy has failed.
Also, Wario Land has probably only done as well as it has because practically nothing else has been released for the Wii in Japan for months...
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