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Nuvendil on 20 January 2016
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OneKartVita said:
Nuvendil said:
Can I just drop in here and say that the whole "no competition" argument is just kinda dumb? I think it is safe to say, given the dry spells, high sales of Xbone and PS4, and the trend of things for the last gen or two that most Wii U owners own a PC, PS4, or Xbone and therefore there's plenty of competition? I mean, I know console wars seem to be serious biz on the interwebz, but contrary to what that may have some believe, you don't have to sign away your rights to buying any other console whenever you buy a particular one.

 

That's a good point and one I definitely over looked.  However I think it's somewhere in between.  There is definitely a core of Nintendo fans who wouldn't touch the ps4 or x1 for whatever age old reason.  So I think we're both right. 

True enough, but then again you have to consider demographic qualities.  That subgroup of Nintendo fans, the purest of the purists, is not really who this game is targeted at and not likely to be who it would appeal to (despite Nintendo tossing out a recommendation to Zelda and Metroid fans, clever as that was :P ).   I have no doubt there is a very, very, very small group that litterally walks into Gamestop, looks on the back of the box, sees the Nintendo logo, and buys the game immediately.  But as has been pointed out many a time on the internet, such extreme loyalists are - in almost all cases - the smallest minority. 

Having played XCX quite a lot, I think it is safe to say that this game's main audience is the overlap, not the central core of the hardcore Nintendo loyalists.  And I say that as part of that overlap.  While I like my Kirby and Fire Emblem and Mario Kart and Splatoon, I was not drawn to the game cause of the Nintendo logo nor exclusively because Xenoblade Chronicles was really good.  I was drawn to it because of my experiences with Oblivion, Skyrim, Dragon Age Origins, basically RPGs in general, especially open world ones.  In fact, those games are why I played the first XC.  So yeah, I would definitely put most of the target audience (and most of the sales) to overlap, probably the PC and PS4 owners since it is A) a JRPG that B) has a lot of WRPG elements with a C) combat system familiar to westerners and definitely PC players plus D) an open world with tons of side content.  All elements popular on those platforms, only rarely having visited Nintendo platforms.  And while it is easy to say that hardcore Nintendo loyalists who never ever touch any other platform "miss" these experiences and thus gobble up whatever game offers them that shows up, you can't "miss" what you probably haven't had.