NBA JAM - no online for wii version confirmed

[bmmb1]

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.

You are also making an assumption, and that assumption is that only "the Wii audience" has bought NSMB (or are the potential market ofr NBA Jam). But many Wii owners also own one or the other HD console, and so yes, my assumption is that many of those would have gone for an NSMB with online (not that it needed it). And they don't need to care more about online, all they need is to have the choice between a version with online and one without (since both would have the offline multiplayer).

As to "free", of course it is marketing doublespeak, but that doesn't prevent people from falling for it at the psychological level (do you know how many times my wife remembers that something costs around 30 when the price is 39.99?).