| HylianSwordsman said: You're saying they could have sold 100k more for no additional expense, but doing so would be a BAD business decision? I can't take you seriously, that just makes no sense. And I didn't say a simultaneous release, you obviously didn't read my posts. I said a summer release, well after Mario Kart, during the Wii U game drought. It would have sold near PS3/360 version sales. |
I think you are failing to grasp the concept, they SPLITTED the development team for 5 months to make the other versions to reach on TIME and take advantage of the hype, the cost of those extra 100k units would had been HUGE as the others versions would not have arrived on May, meaning a lot of money would had been lost.
And you are ignoring previous evidence if you think the sales of arriving on time would have been even 50% of those on PS3/360, the install base simply is not there, the audience is also not there, you want a fair comparison, look at the sales of Batman: Arkham Origins, or Assassin's Creed IV to have an idea, the first one got 10% of the sales of the 360 version and even less than 10% for the PS3, for the second one the situation was even worse. Lets be VERY optimistic and say it would reach 15% of the 360 or PS3 edition Combined, that would only mean 300k units.
They don't guess, they look at previous numbers and they make sound bussiness decisions, and I have to admit (even if I don't like it), they made the right one.
