| Tachikoma said: The problem is i DO see a difference, that difference being comparing the price of proprietory storage hardware which came about asa result of a past generations more open format leading to rampant piracy, to the price of a more universally usable device such as usb flash memory or external hdd. Dont get me wrong, im not defending the horrible practice of using proprietory memory cards on a console, or the Vita itself, I am however sick of seeing false equivalency used to backup an argument then randomly and arbitrarilly bringing up an entirely different console. The argument has no merrit what so ever besides taking a sly potshot at "the hardware of the competitor". The original argument was regarding the games size fitting on to the WiiU (or not fitting at all, as the case would be on a 8gb console), it's a valid point to make even if you have the option of using a usb stick or external hdd to install the game to. Requiring the purchase of additional storage hardware just to play a game is bad news, just like the release of the 8GB flash storage PS3's, the only difference there being the 8GB ps3's came in late in the consoles life span as a "rock bottom entry point" rather than an option since launch. The true issue here however is Nintendo's thick as a plank descision to make the release digital only, which is ultimately the root reason for the debate to begin with, as has the game been on disk anyone could have played it on just their stock console. When faced with the option of releasing the game, at some point or other someone at Nintendo made the concious decision to release one of their consoles largest (when installed) games ever. as digital only for it's native english release, despite knowing that it would force 8GB console owners to buy additional memory just to play it, and they went ahead with this not seeing a problem with removing the physical option. In my opinion, whoever made that call was a moron. |
I frankly don't think that the difference in sales that a physical release would have added was projected to be large enough to be worth the extra effort and recources. The only people who were going to buy this game at all was a very tiny, very niche, very hardcore group of fans. A much larger percentage of Wii U owners own the 32GB console than ones that own the quickly phased out 8GB model, so it's safe to assume that that ratio remains the same among that very small subset of Fatal Frame fans. Even if we completely ignore the existance of external hard drives, most of the people in the west who ever intended to buy this game will have more than enough room to download the game in its entirely, and that group of people, again, is already going to be very, very, very small. By then looking at the size of the exponentially smaller group of people who intended to buy the game, but physically can't because their console doesn't have enough memory for the download, and its easy to see why releasing this title digital only was likely a very easy decision to make.
I don't think the person who made that call was a moron at all. It makes sense.
