| pokoko said: I'm not really sure why this is so often presented as something that only happens to Nintendo when it has happened elsewhere, as well. Regardless, let's take Deus Ex. Let's assume that everyone who owns a Wii U who also owns a PS3/360 decides to buy the game on the latter because of the price tag. What has Square Enix lost? A few of those who don't have a PS3/360 will buy it at $50, while a few more will wait until the price is reduced. Again, what has the publisher lost? If you don't like the price, then wait. It's what everyone else does when a game is released. |
Except when a major game on a Nintendo console doesn't have spectacular first week sales, it's declared a flop, people call out Nintendo fans for not buying enough of it, and the console is declared doomed. Doesn't matter what the game is, whether it also flopped on onther consoles and whether Nintendo fans had/have very legitimate reasons for not buying it immediately, or ever.
Take a game like Rayman Origins, where the Nintendo console leads the rest in sales, people still call out the Wii U version for not jumping way ahead of the others. The game released at the same time on every console and flopped on all of them, yet the Wii U gets special mention.
I'm not even going to go into Mass Effect 3, Madden '13 and Fifa. I've done that to death.
