| _crazy_man_ said: It might be gimped but who would wanna ignore selling it on a platform that will have a +40 million userbase by the time this releases. |
If it had been a Wii U exclusive like it should have been, that would have given a hell of a lot of folks who don't yet own one to go out and finally buy one. If you want to push consoles and improve the prostpects of your next gen system, a "MUST HAVE EXCLUSIVE" like a Smash Bros. or a Mario Kart is sure as hell the way to do that. So sure, they have a ready-made instal base who will no doubt buy the shit out of SB on 3DS. You're right about that. But is it really worth doing so at the expense of what could have been a hell of a lot more Wii U sales? Like I've said in the past, if they REALLY wanted to try out SB on a portable, it would have been a hell of a lot smarter to just focus on the development of this Wii U game, and then AFTER it's done, start developing a different, exclusive SB for down the line on 3DS. That way, they could have the maximum sales impact of a hot "AAA" exclusive on Wii U, and THEN still be assured of also selling a crap-ton of the other, seperate SB game later on 3DS. More sales and more money made by them, all around, and it certainly strikes me that it would have been the smartest way to go.
@FOX
"But I wouldn't blame the 3DS if the Wii U version isn't filling up a BluRay disc. I'd blame Wii U's internal storage."
Wii U's internal storage has nothing to do with it. Rather, blame Iwata and his own comments about the fact that the Wii U version will more than likely "have" to have it's content affected by whatever content the 3DS can handle/will have. And all because he seems committed to this idea of parity, that doesn't need to happen. If the 3DS version of this same game is GOING to exist, then at the very least, the obvious thing to do is simply have it be the "gimped" version, period. The Wii U version should, by all rights, obviously have more characters, more stages, more content, simply because it can handle them. If the 3DS has to miss out on certain things, well too bad. I would think any 3DS owner with a practical mindset would understand that that was going to have to happen. But the Wii U version absolutely does not "need" to be gimped in order for owners of the 3DS version to feel better somehow. I just think the idea that Wii U should miss out on ANY potential content because the lesser 3DS version can't handle it, is absurd.
