| joesampson said: It doesn't even seem like you're trying. Not trying to give you a hard time here but you aren't making any impactful arguments which is why so many people are beating up on you. I'm gonna play devils advocate and make one of the arguments for you that you could have hypothetically made. The only apparent thing I immediately see that doesn't make business sense is that postponing the wii u version means that that version will not be able to take advantage of the large marketing push all the other versions will get in May. It is also unlikely that Ubisoft will spend enough later on for the wii u's marketing push to match the other versions' release. This will certainly affect sales. However.... 1. It is likely that the loss of revenue from the wii u's release will be far less than the loss of revenue from delaying all the other versions. Remember, Ubisoft is a public company and has profit expectations that they need to try to meet on a quarterly basis. 2. The wii u version is likely delayed much further than you believe. The quotes I posted earlier imply that and you have yet to show evidence that proves otherwise. 3. Some lost sales from the wii u version will likely go to other versions. This doesn't effect Ubisoft's bottom line as $60 for the PS3 version is as good as $60 from the wii u. No lost opportunity. 4. Lastly, a lot of people are not pissed as you say. You are likely one of a very tiny disgruntled minority of wii u owners that 1) knows that the wii U version is delayed and 2) actually cares. This is why video game fan boycotts never work. Most people don't read vg news and forums and are largely uniformed. They still buy what they want when they see it. Hey, last year I was angry about how EA ruined Simcity. They never got my money but they sure as hell got millions from everyone else. |
bolded: it's not delaying "others", it's delaying ALL versions if they couldn't get them ready
2. it got resources taken away from it several months before release, that explains the delay of several months.
3. they lost the oportunity of making the wii u version sell well and stained their name even more with nintendo fans. his stuff has cumulative negative impact for them. it's also probable that they use low sales of WD as a pathetic excuse to not release similar games.
