| Mr Khan said: Bingo. Third parties have to try their hardest to prevent investor revolt, when they have a bad quarter, savvy investors are going to first and foremost ask why they're ignoring 48% of the console market. So they tossed a few low-budget bones out there, and it was a win-win scenario. If their crap somehow managed to catch on, hooray, we've got a low-budget hit (2K games, foremost in the piss-poor supporters of Wii, lucked out there with Carnival Games), and if they fail, then hooray, they can justify ignoring Wii to their investors, and they don't lose much money on it (Bandai-Namco hit that note with Soul Calibur Legends, and EA did tremendously with Dead Space Extraction)
To up the ante, they hire market "analysts" like Pachter and Divnich and Frasier, who then tell the investors to their face that high-quality Wii development is a bad idea. |
Well written post
I agree
