| Captain_Yuri said:
It does make a difference because games sell the most during launch and sell significantly less as time moves on so if a game gets bundled later on in its life or gets restocked, they aren't really losing money... What I was implying is... Most people would just save up for MK and SSB and not those smaller games and Nintendo would lose out on major profits. The people that buy MK and SSB aren't going to buy games like Pikmin and Xenoblade and the sales prove that. Nintendo won't be gaining those sales back through other games because people don't buy other games to the same extent as MK and SSB. People aren't gonna buy niche games just cause they got a big game for free... Most people would just use it for SSB and MK Nintendo would lose profits. SSB or MK sales are far more profitable the most of their niche games combined. "This logic applies to all bundles. The point is to help the console sell so the games can." Not really because of how Nintendo does their bundles... Their bundles are always very low in stock at launch so they can make the most amount of profit from the retail sales of the games themselves. After a few months since the game is out, they restock their bundles because the game is no longer selling as high as it once was. With your idea, their most profitable games would lose a good chunk of their profits due to the free game thing since most people don't care about their niche games and will just use it for one of the big games and be happy with it. Really it would just be... Loss sales in either MK, SSB, Mario or Splatoon and people buying those wouldn't buy their niche games. |
Yes they are, as long as they have a game bundled with the console they're losing potential money, atleast in a not big picture sense.
Are you implying that everyone buys Nintendo systems solely for one game which is either Smash or Kart? (It's "or" not "and," bundle is one game only) Yes sales do prove otherwise, that they have plenty of other big names like Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Splatoon and plenty of games that while not huge sell well enough, so most people don't buy a system for one game and not everyone even gets Smash or Kart. If people really did as you're saying, then why aren't they doing it right now? I know both MK7 and MK8 are bundled at good deals right now, yet other games are still selling like normal.
There's always a bundle available, so they must still be buying one even if they're not getting one for the newest game. If they really wanted only the most profits, why even have any bundles at all? Again most people don't buy a system only for one game, and even if that were true, how is buying a NX and using the code on Mario Kart 9 any different from buying a MK8 Wii U bundle?
Well that's no different from right now since the only bundled games are big ones.
