Global Hardware Up 6 December 2014

[vivster]

tbone51 said:

vivster said:

1 additional free digital game to a bundle. That's maybe a little bargain but not even close to anything we've seen with other console bundles. Now if the console had an actual price cut that time, that would be a different thing.

So if it's not responsible for half the sales how much do you think it boosted sales? We can take that percentage off to make it fairer :)

Wait, just 1 thing^ I could be reading that wrong but are you saying the free game only came with a bundle? (meaning buy mk8 wiiu bundle get game free?)

If thats wat you mean then yes its not a big deal as its something that quite happens alot especially with the other systems.

That said that wasnt the promotion. It was buy MK8 standalone, just the game get 1 of 4 games free (1 of 10 in Europe).

Thats damn huge^ 

You are right, I forgot about that. Still, the selection wasn't really that stellar. Not even SM3DW or Donkey Kong in there.

So what's your guess on the boost? You're basically saying that there are (many?) people who wouldn't have bought MK8 at that time if it wasn't for the promotion.

edit: ah looks like we have global software now. Smash U is at 1.5m.