Yakuzaice on 10 December 2012
| DarkD said: Is it just me or have people forgotten that theres an added benefit for customers who buy things on the Eshop. Why would there be a lot of sales for games when people are encouraged to buy them on the Eshop. All the hardcore gamers obviously would have bought the premium console as everyone knows that's the better deal, and hardcore are the ZombiU people and other third party game people. NPD doesn't track the Eshop now does it? In fact I think Nintendo has taken its first step to making this entire website irrelevant for Nintendo. |
Well in the UK the hardcore could buy a ZombiU bundle which is factored into these numbers. Also the silly time restrictions on the eshop in Europe for mature content probably isn't helping sales for those games. We also haven't seen a substantial boost for a game like Black Ops 2 which isn't available on the eshop.
Beyond that, consoles haven't shown that downloadable versions make a significant amount of sales. This is likely to be exacerbated with the Wii U due to the low default storage and the other issues with their online system such as IDs being tied to the console.
