| spemanig said: They can't talk advertise their online being free without indirectly comparing themselves to their competitors. It's not pretending. There are far more relevant games on the PS4 and XBO to use the online for. None of the games you mention, other than maybe MH3U, has an active enough online community to be worth mentioning. Quality is absolutely not all that matters. If you're a huge fan of those three games, then you already own a Wii U, and there's no reason to advertise it's free online. If you don't and you hear that the online is free, you're naturally going to see if there are other offerings that makes the free online relevant to you, and when the closest decent alternative is an incredibly niche game like MH, it makes Nintendo look bad. Everyone knows that the online on the Wii U is free, but no one cares because they probably wouldn't use it much anyway unless they happen to fall in the very specific camp that will naturally like those three games. I just think it's unwise to put any emphasis on the free online when there are so many easy ways that people will spin it negatively. Until Nintendo's online offerings are on par in software variety to the competition, they should not focus on it being free. It's not enough of a selling point. |
Again because the Wii U in general has a small community, perhaps a lack of advertising is partly to blame!
Everyone knows the online is free? Hardly anyone knows the console even exist!
Everything Nintendo does is spun negatively regardless, so nothing new there!
