Innovation in software is the source of Nintendo's decline

[LordTheNightKnight]

RolStoppable said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

RolStoppable said:

This is just going in circles. Unless you offer your own theory that includes the sales history of Metroid Prime and Echoes and offer an explanation for the difference between their initial sales (after all, sequels usually open with bigger or similar sales), there's no reason for me to reply to you again.

I did offer a theory. It's one thing to disagree with Echoes turning people off. It's another to not acknowledge I even wrote that.

I acknowledge it, I just think it's stupid. People being turned off before the game is released, doesn't make sense unless there were drastic changes to the formula made. But Echoes is a straight sequel and got favorable reviews all around, I think it got a 91 on Metacritic. What exactly could have turned so many Metroid Prime fans off?

I'm not talking about the initial sales. I'm talking about lack of legs, which we can see in the Americas with 2 and fully with 3. They both had just moderate legs. The kind that say people didn't think they were outright bad, but something was missing that kept the legs from being stronger. All the Call of Duty games on the Wii opened smaller, but have sold about the same, which indicates smaller initial awreness, but better word of mouth.