Soundwave said:
Another example of not putting in enough effort -- Nintendo sold 250 million hardware units last generation and made a pretty profit off each one, not to mention enough money from software to fill Scrooge McDuck's vault.
So why is such a taboo to spend a few freaking bucks on your first year software lineup (especially since you're not bothering to spend anything on marketing and even slashing things like an E3 conference)? A few dollars can't be spared to ensure a healthy launch for a product that's going to be half your company's lifeblood for the next 5-6 years?
Offer to pay for a Megaman U game. Finance an action or shooter game from one of the multitude of Western devs. Factor 5 was begging for Nintendo's help, you can't tell me a Star Wars Rogue Squadron IV that actually shows off the Wii U's chipset potential in March or April of this year wouldn't have filled the drought nicely. How about a Zelda/Soul Calibur cross-over fighting game using the existing Soul Calibur V engine?
No one's asking for something crazy like spending a bazillion dollars for GTAV or something, these types of projects would likely cost Nintendo not much at all. Wouldn't it have been worth it to save themselves such headaches later on? It's like spending $100,000 on a car, loading it up with survival gear, and then refusing to overspend on gasoline and ending up getting stuck in the middle of dumbf__k nowhere because you thought half a tank of gas was good enough.
C'mon Nintendo. Especially if they could cajole Capcom to give Monster Hunter exclusivity to the 3DS... why doesn't the Wii U have it's own equivalent deal with a third party capable of moving hardware? And no, home Monster Hunter doesn't cut it, everyone knows home MH games sell a fraction of the handheld ones and a 1080p upport of a handheld game is even worse for sales impact.
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I guess nintendo was trying to pull a microsoft on the ps3 when it wasn't out yet but nintendo forgot one crucial element and that was 3rd party support and to that nintendo failed miserably when attempting to pull it off LOL.
