Aielyn said:
When have third parties ever needed a valid excuse to not support a Nintendo platform? There's always the fallbacks of "we can't compete with Nintendo, they're just too good" and "Nintendo system owners only buy Nintendo games" and "There's no market for our games on Nintendo systems - just look at how badly our crappy spinoffs performed when we didn't advertise them and didn't support them in any other way!". Also, I think Rayman Legends will end up selling fairly well, likely to break 1 million lifetime I think. If they hadn't screwed with it through the delay (the multiplat decision had no effect, just the massive delay), it could have been the first third-party system-seller, and managed something like 5 million, but it's still going to see healthy sales, purely thanks to how dedicated Michel Ancel is to the consumer. |
bolded: if those games sell like i said those three excuses go down the drain.
I don't think rayman would get anywhere near 5 million but the delay was indeed stupid. they could have released in february, wait two months with the game selling as an exclusive and ONLY THEN announce it was going multiplatform in september. extra content from ps360 versions could easily come as dlc later. That would get them a decent system seller taking advantage of wii u drought period + the same sales they would get on ps360 anyway.
