NBA JAM - no online for wii version confirmed

[LordTheNightKnight]

Viper1 said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

bmmb1 said:

oniyide said:

@flagstaad  After the great sales of NSMBW despite not having online, I think EA expects it to do alright

Some of you are missing the point, the main problem here is not at all that there is no online, it's that there is no online while the "free" HD version does have it. Imagine what would have happened had NSMBWii come out on the Wii without online (as it did) but at the same time another version of NSMB would have come out on the HD consoles as a free download when buying something like LBP2. Do you think it would have had the sales it did? Nowhere near, and not because an HD version (which really shouldn't matter for that game) existed.

That is a big presumption, as you are imagining the Wii audience cares about online more than playing with friends. Plus the "free" notion smakes of marketing doublespeak, since you still have to pay for NBA Elite.

No, he's not assuming they care about online MORE THAN playing with friends but that they feel ripped off that they are paying full price for a game with a reduced feature set.

 

Do you have something against the Wii and online?  Because every single one of your posts goes to great length to posit that Wii gamers don't play online very much.

No, and could you stop misrepresenting my position.

I'm going against the assumption that more Wii owners prefer online without proof that those who prefer local is less. Again, we know that a lot of Wii owners like online, and it might even hurt this game's sales. Yet where is the datat showing the amount of Wii owners who prefer local multiplayer, and that their number is less than those who prerer online?

Considering all the money at stake in the industry, that is not something wise to be certain about without grounds to be certain.