| spurgeonryan said: A month later when there was nothing out and the hype was still there from MK8 would have been a perfect time as well.
A week or two after Smash would be good as well since hype will be high and it is the holidays as well. Having it's own event, some advertising and some sort of perks. Too close to smash will just help it get lost in the shuffle, and forget about any pre-ordering of it. |
Too many posts that I want to answer... lets choose a few ones only.
A month later would mean sacrificing the release date of the other versions, which is a VERY BAD bussiness decision, just to get a few extra copies sold for the Wii U.
2 Weeks after Smash would mean AFTER black friday, which would be financial suicide specially for Nintendo related software which gets a higher increase during the holiday season.
The game was done till recently (why is a different topic) and the november month is already very crowded for the company, they would LOVE to place it on a better date, but short of a miracle it would be impossible to move it forward at least for a week. Their logic now is more like... "if you want something mature for the console you really don't have any choice, and the extra sales generated by the release of Smash could make new console owners to look for additional games for their collection, so there is nothing much else to lose"
