| Zero999 said: " For AC they didn't even start with the PC version until the 360/PS3 versions were finished" are you saying ubi made a full port in a few months? if so, the wii u delay is even more inexcusable. each game is different. the last 3 may have goten similar proportions but the question is: would the others have sold more if released at the same time/soon after the console versions? yes is the most probable answer. besides, PC is a platform with a fixed big installed base and ubi might get away with crap like this. wii u, on the other hand, is a home console early in it's life and this kind of delay completely screws it's version. |
I'm not saying this, the article is.
1. AC like every game is developed on PCs, making the PC version is way easier when you already have the other versions, after all you have way less limitations and they've been making PC versions for years now.
2. They are making an AC every year, the development of that game is streamlined to bits, they have their engine in place, they have their gameplay in place, they probably have most of their voice talent in place, how does them still having to delay AC on PC every year make "the Wii U delay even more inexcusable"?
Watch Dogs is in development since 2009 (PC as the lead platform, so no delay there), has a completely new engine and new gameplay, do you seriously believe this game can be ported as fast as an average AC, especially to Wii U, where they're trying to find a worthwile way to implement that controller. No, of course not and that's why they made the decision to prioritize the other console versions, because they will shift way more units on them and they'd lose way more sales overall if they decided to push those back to September or something, cause that's when most big games start releasing. (more competition, you know)
And you know what, they won't lose anything because of this, cause the amount of people that only own a Wii U, wanted to get the game, but are now so enraged over this delay that they're not going to get it, is ridiculously small. Most people will either get another version, which means money for Ubisoft anyway, or they'll get it when it comes out on Wii U. The only person that I see that is constantly making a huge deal of this is you and you never wanted to get this game, I'm pretty sure, you're just enraged because "Wii U owners are getting treated worse than everybody else", well let me tell you something: Wii U owners are making them the least money, that's why they're being treated the worst. It's that fucking simple.
Also that last paragraph is nothing but a huge excuse. When you're suddenly eliminating other entries in a series as eligible ways to make comparisons, then you're basically creating something that can never be proven wrong or right and then becomes a totally baseless assumption, cause you have nothing to compare it to. Or can you give me an example of a game that at the same time released simultaneously on all platforms and was delayed several months on one? You can't? Of course you can't, because this doesn't make sense. And what is this about the install base of the PC version and the Wii U being early in its life? The notion that the PC fanbase is fixed, not that it's true, would only support what I said, after all it was the same amount of people that bought the games on PC, no matter if they're delayed several months or only a couple weeks, that would all the more suggest that there is no correlation between the delay of a single version and its sales.
The Wii U being early in its life also has nothing to do with this, being earlier in its life means that it has less games, so the games that are released get more attention, so actually a delayed game would if at all suffer more when it's late in the cycle of a console, cause it has way more competition to be swept under the rug by. Sure later in the cycle more people own the system, but that's all the more reason why the version would possibly hurt way more if it released late at the end of the consoles lifecycle, right now there are only 6 million Wii U owners and only a small percentage of those are even interested in the game at all, so the delay is going to hurt way less then it would if for example there were 20 million Wii U owners.
Finally before you respond, read my post and think of a good way to counter it, if you just want to do your usual thing of highlighting one sentence of this whole block of text and responding to it with a one liner, then don't bother responding at all.
