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Zkuq on 06 November 2016
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zorg1000 said:

I said 'in an extreme case', and I said it mainly to make a point. If Zelda was one of Wii U's selling points for someone, it lost one of its selling points when it was announced that the only Zelda on Wii U would be simultaneously released on Switch as well. Obviously it's not likely that a lot of people got a Wii U just for a new Zelda games (otherwise they would've just waited, just like you said), but had they known this in advance (and looking at Nintendo's history with Zelda games, they had all the reason to anticipate an exclusive Zelda), they might have considered getting a Wii U more carefully. At the very least their expectations wouldn't have been broken.

I get it to an extent, but the thing is the game is still coming to Wiii U so that selling point is still there and if Zelda wasnt the only reason that they bought a Wii U than all those others still exist.

For example, lets say someone wanted a Wii U for these 5 games, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Bayonetta 2, Xenoblade, Zelda. Guess what? all 5 of those games are on Wii U.

At least these people still have the option of playing the game on Wii U, its not like Final Fantasy Versus XIII or The Last Guardian where they were delayed for years, assumed to be dead, then all of a sudden showed back up and were no longer releasing on the consoles they were originally announced. 

I guess it's mostly a matter of expectations and not meeting them. For some people, it could be a big deal, even though it seems most people take it more calmly. That's the case especially if Zelda was a big factor in the decision of getting the console.

Those two examples at the end are pretty good ones, I have to say. For the longest time I wasn't even planning to get a PS4 (or Xbox One, for that matter), and I was pretty disappointed to see those two games slide away from PS3. Now, I just recently got a PS4 so it doesn't really matter that much anymore since when getting a PS4 I think I didn't even know of those two games, but it was still disappointing to think I would miss those games (because I'm not getting a console just a for a game or two in most cases - consoles usually cost a good bit of money).