MDMAlliance on 06 March 2015
| pokoko said: It's pretty easy to see what's going on here. With Rock Band no longer being published by EA, they're really trying to trim expenses, as we can see by the fact that they're going with less instruments. Also, before anyone jumps on them, they did mention their own research, which included surveys and asking for feedback. They said they got a ton of responses--perhaps very few of those responses were from Wii U owners? It's a shame but Rock Band is obviously has a ton of upfront production and distribution costs. This is about money. |
I can see it being that it's possible for the game to see decent sales on the Wii U, but their confidence level isn't high enough to take the risk with limited funds. I mean, people saying that it's because the Wii U has a low user base so it wouldn't sell very much isn't the best argument when you look at data showing that certain games actually do sell better in certain demographics (regardless of the user base level).
I imagine the reason they didn't straight up say the real reasons up front has to do with the given reason being much easier to understand. PR tends to do stuff like that.
