| vivster said: I'm going to be smug right back at you when I'm playing it :P Yes, Nintendo financed it. And it may be true that they approached Sony and Microsoft for funding as well. But in the end they chose Nintendo and Wii U exclusivity, which means they will at least be expecting that it won't sell well. They had the choice between releasing on a platform where there aren't as many potential buyers and not releasing at all. So financial success was never an option. But they won't go hungry since for them the game already paid off and moneywise the game doesn't need to sell a lot. At least not for Platinum. |
They didn't choose Nintendo, the game was canned, it was Nintendo or nothing. Now, it's another thing to see if this venture was profitable for Nintendo, certainly their expectations were higher.
OT: It may be negative for the WiiU, but SSB for 3DS is a success for Nintendo as a whole. It may cross 2m with little effort. And YK2 will get to 3m before 2015, this week is up in MC! And YK is still charting.
Quite amazed at DQX, it will get to 100k, exceeding everyone's expectations.
Now, Bayoflop, fortunately they did lowered our expectations, but Nintendo needs to learn how to publish this kind of titles. It's going to be a really tough road if they pretend to survive only on their classic IPs. This title was a great move, but very poorly executed. They better start praying for some legs.
HW minor bump was expected, even if it sales were higher it wasn't going to go very high without a bundle. I mean, after MK had such a small effect, it wasn't really going to be a huge one for this title.
O.o XOne is really sad, that's too low for, is it the 3rd week?
