| mai said: People on the Internet have created a petition, that's unseen! The sales in NA were modest, that what VGC says, but as I've said nothing big. My point is clear. For Nintendo there's not much point in investing big bucks in new IPs, this only raises chances of releasing new Alan Wake, or worse a disaster of Shenmue, and chances of happening everything else that followed in the story of Sega. Given current situation with Wii U, that a) doesn't sell; b) already have main Mario -- there're two possibilities -- it either sucks so immensely no amount of Mario could save it or it's only Mario that requires fixing (or both). Therefore it's much more promising to invest more money into more ambitious main Mario game rather than ambitious new IP. |
Didn't Alan Wake sold four million units eventually? The developers did make a good profit out of that IP.
And Nintendo can invest in both at the same time, you know. It's not like they're poor after Wii, and it's not like they lack the human resources and time to do so. They're just being lazy. We don't need the amount of money for an IP like Shenmue, so that's not a valid excuse. So Nintendo has mainly two options: a) Grab all the third-party support they can and b) Spend some time making new IPs. Sure, ZombiU didn't crack a million, but it is the third best-selling title of the WiiU, and it's a new IP.
