Vincoletto said: THis is the kind of thing Nintendo should never let happen, it should be a condition on the contract with the game company. |
The problem is that they cannot enforce this policy, if the publisher wants to cut content from the game they can do it, is their product, the market will decide the fate of the game. If the cut is too big and nothing is placed in return people will ignore it or wait for a huge price cut to try the game, like it happened with Sniper V2.
There are cases when stuff has been cut, but the gamers are compesated in some way, for example Batman: Arkham Origins for Wii U is lacking multiplayer modes but at the same time the amount of people who buys this game for multiplayer in the first place is very little, and to compensate the Wii U version was 10 U$ cheaper than the other versions (and I got it for 40U$ thanks to an amazon promotion, on the day of release). Splinter Cell: Blacklist is missing local co-op, but the gamepad integration is very good, and so on.