RolStoppable said:
He does it to make his point. Would you care, if he picked games that sold one or two million copies? Of course not. But calling SMG and TP failures gets people's attention. Also, I think he said or at least meant "not selling systems" which is true in the big picture. So we are looking at multimillion sellers that don't really sell the hardware. That IS a problem for a console manufacturer, especially one like Nintendo who can't rely on third party games to do that job. That's why he keeps talking down on SMG2, because it was a waste of resources. From the moment it was announced, it was clear that Nintendo just wasted two and a half years for very talented people to produce a game that wouldn't sell the Wii. |
I presume that when he says SMG and TP failures, he means that attach rate wise, they are quite poor, comparing them to the Nintendo 64 versions, OoT sold 7.6 million, but TP only sold 5.84 (its 7.4 mind if you include the GC), Super Mario 64 sold 11.89 on the Nintendo 64 but SMG only sold 9.4 million, with the significantly larger userbase, you would expect sales to increase or at least match their Nintendo 64 counterparts, especially considering the huge difference in install base
