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sweetoothj said:
Nintendo Wii U doesn't have enough market share and most Nintendo Wii U owners only buy first party games.


Which is why crowd funding makes sense. The games that get released are the ones that have already been covered in advance financially. I think that point is being missed altogether. People are just miming that "it already got a shot". 

With crowd funding, no one is obligated to give the console a shot at all. If the production of the game is fully funded, then there's literally no risk involved on the part of the publisher.

 Other devs might also get a read off of the process, and we'd have a better idea of what will sell to the U's current demographic (the last real test came at a time when there was less than a fifth of the current user base buying games). That's a lot bigger pond to cast into, and us players who were drawn in by Smash, Kart, Bayonetta 2, and more aren't the same gamers as those who bit on Nintendoland alone. 



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