Innovation in software is the source of Nintendo's decline

[LordTheNightKnight]

RolStoppable said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

"because I am saying that people picked it up expecting a FPS and that can only hold up for initial sales, so the first two months at best"

The problem is they need a reason to assume it's an FPS, and what would make them do that? The marketing didn't make it look like an FPS, and that is one of the chief ways to confuse costumers of what a game is about.

Screenshots (which were also on the back of the packaging) and videos showing a first person perspective and something that is easily identified as some sort of gun. Heck, to this very day some people still call Metroid Prime a FPS. They obviously haven't played any of the games, but it shows how easy it is to confuse the series with a FPS.

That just means some classify it as that genre, not that perhaps a million or more bought it expecting another Halo or Goldeney.

Plus you obviously didn't notice how much disappointment was expressed over Prime 2, which can hurt word of mouth, while Prime 1 did NOT have loads of complaints that it wasn't another Halo or Goldeneye. Some wished it controlled more like those, but they did not claim the game sucked because of that.