| AAA300 said:
They limited it to a few games and there was a time limit and it was the game not the console. |
Something LIKE this
| Captain_Yuri said:
It is different because a) Not every game gets bundled and b) The bundles are super limited during launch... When Mario Kart 8 bundle launched, it was out of stock super quickly without being in stock for months. Thats not because people kept on buying them but rather cause Nintendo wasn't resupplying them. Not to mention that not every country even gets bundles either and there is a reason for all of that which is that they are losing sales. And sure, its one game but people would buy that game regardless due to how great the games have been but now, they would just get it for free. And its hardly spread thin if its Mario Kart or Smash Bros which sell over 5 million each and far exceed the sales of their other franchises... And not to mention that some of those bundles cost more than the base price of the wiiU. Oh and it's also a gamble... If the NX flops and they are scrambling for money and they are giving out one of their biggest games for free... RIP |
Most all the major sellers do, and it doesn't make a difference as long as bundles are always available, which in the 3DS and Wii U's case they have been for years.
"And its hardly spread thin if its Mario Kart or Smash Bros which sell over 5 million each and far exceed the sales of their other franchises..."
Not sure what you're getting at here. Are you implying essentially 100+ bundles will have the same division of sales loss as 4-5 bundles? Just an example, instead of NSMBU losing out on the 1 million sales it likely has from being bundled, it would lose 800k while Pikmin 3 Ioses 100k and Xenoblade loses 100k with my idea. In the end the same amount of sales are being lost so it doesn't really matter.
"And sure, its one game but people would buy that game regardless due to how great the games have been but now, they would just get it for free."
"If the NX flops and they are scrambling for money and they are giving out one of their biggest games for free... RIP"
This logic applies to all bundles. The point is to help the console sell so the games can. If literally everyone who buys a NX uses their code on Smash, then fine, just means all their many other games can sell to their fullest.
