| oniyide said: DLC is NOT a major selling point for AC, if it were then the PS3 version would trounce the 360 version since it usually has exclusive stuff. I dont even think you follow that series. COD maybe, but i seriously doubt its stopping that MUCH people from buying it. They didnt have any qualms about PS4/Xone cause they knew the audience woudl buy it...Wii U well they tried (some of them) and the sales for the game prove they were right. How were those games inferior? By not having DLC? its not like its free for the other versions. Funny is how some were bragging that the WIi U versions(especially of Blops2) were superior and all of a sudden when they sell like crap the excuses come. From all the reviews ive read they run about the same as the PS360 versions. I seriously doubt you played any of them. AC3>NSMBWiiU see how opinions work? They are not facts. Quality is subjective. They kept at it for the reasons you've stated but i dont see the problem. Again quality is subjective, what is the difference between JD and Country dance? What is the difference between Zumba and Jillian Micheals workout? Using sales as a barometer for quality has and will always be wrong. |
I should clarify - when I say "major selling point", I don't so much mean "it's why it sells", but "it's why people are choosing one version over another", as in "why would you buy the version that the developers openly said isn't supported for future content?" Gamers don't generally take dismissive attitudes well, and Wii U gamers are no exception. Especially when they were able to support in terms of future content with the previous game; so they can't claim lack of infrastructure, only lack of willingness.
And I never said that sales are a barometer for quality. What they are, though, is a way to get some insight into quality. Quality is just one of the factors in sales - another, for instance, is awareness (marketing being a major driver in this instance). And then there's appeal - I'm guessing that Zumba is something that more people know than "Jillian Michaels"; It is noteworthy that Jillian Michaels sold far better in America than Europe, whereas the numbers were much closer for Zumba. What I've said is that Metacritic doesn't indicate quality, and never has. That Super Mario 3D World is highest on Metacritic reflects the fact that some reviewers liked the game, not that the game is necessarily higher quality (although I do believe it is).
Nobody was "bragging" that "Blops2" was better on Wii U. Indeed, Blops2 didn't even get DLC. Some were saying it was the best version in their opinions. Indeed, Jim Sterling, who described it as the best console version, had this to say: "The game mostly looks on par with the Xbox 360 version, albeit with the removal of dynamic shadows and a slight roughness to the edges of distant NPCs."
Simply put, there was nothing in Blops2 to justify people moving over to it over the other versions. Thus, fans didn't buy a Wii U for the game.
When you put out a product on even slightly superior hardware (and the Wii U hardware is superior to the 360 and PS3, that part is without any reasonable doubt from any person capable of reasonable thought) that is even slightly worse in performance (and Jim Sterling's description fits that), and don't actually leverage the unique features of the hardware, and then fail to support the game with future content that all the other versions get, that's an inferior port. Note that I don't blame Treyarch for this - I have no doubt whatsoever that the issues were due to Activision's higher-ups refusing to allow them to spend the necessary time and energy on it.
The issue, by the way, with lack of DLC support isn't that people don't get to buy DLC - it's that the developers, or the publishers, are treating the owners of the Wii U like nuisances rather than customers; when you fail to treat your customers with respect, you can't be surprised when they choose not to be customers. And it's an inferior product as a result of lack of DLC because it means that you miss out on things that the other versions get, even if they have to pay to get it.
