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NoirSon on 21 June 2015
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Soundwave said:
NoirSon said:


To degree this true but Nintendo did publish the upgraded port of Ninja Gaiden 3 with Wii U. Their biggest problem was that they didn't ADVERTISE it and some the other 3rd party games at launch. Imagine instead of seeing a lame neon Hollywood squares commercial with families, you saw a commercial focused on ZombiU. Or one that showcased Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's edge as a Wii U exclusive (which would have been true at the time) or some of the other 3rd party ports they had at the time.

 

Nintendo had games lined up for the traditional gamer but they failed to market them and thus the games failed to move units and now the perceptions are that no one cares. It isn't all on Nintendo in terms of other 3rd party publishers but in cases were Nintendo could help they should.


Eh ... they had Zombi U ... which had middling reviews and quite honestly was never going to be a big time FPS franchise. I don't understand why Nintendo doesn't get this, but MULTIPLAYER is what makes the FPS genre go. GoldenEye understood this so does Splatoon (finally), but Metroid Prime and things like Zombi U never will be big sellers in the same way because they are essentially single player games. 

Ninja Gaiden 3 ... lol, was an extremely mediocre game. I think they just picked it up as a favor to the guys at Tecmo that are close to, but it's probably better they didn't advertise that one. 

They had nothing really though that was going to make a PS3/360 owner go "oooh, yeah I'm totally ditching this platform that has 50 different FPS games to play Zombi U". 

 

It isn't about the game itself it is about the preception. Yeah, ZombiU had middling reviews but so do tons of games and movies that due to the right marketing push gather a ton revenue. I mean you see it with EVERY Transformers movie that Michael Bay does, the reviews a mediocre to bad from legit critics but they always wind up being one of the highest grossing films of the year. The benefit for advertising the like of ZombiU or Ninja Gaiden: Razor's Edge would be showing you had exclusive content aimed at a audience that may not know such titles were available on a Nintendo platform.

No way ZombiU would have turned into the next Call of Duty, but it could have been similar to Dead Island or at least capture a bigger pool of zombie/horror fans or gamers that love challenging gameplay like those that enjoy the Souls/Bloodborne style of unforgiving gaming. Not every gamer actually reads a number of game sites or reviews, a particular franchise brand or whatever they see something that draws their attention and will buy it.

Just allowing Word of Mouth/critical acclaim/the internet to sell games will only get you so far with most titles that aren't classics, a proper push could have shown that the Wii U isn't just another family/children console to play Mario games on together and drew in more sales which could have lead to a longer leash from certain 3rd parties before they pulled out which could have opened a lot more doors.