| Ljink96 said: Nintendo should port every WIi U game to Switch at this point. For a system that sold so poorly, it's a no brainer to make the games available to a larger audience. |
Its not free to port those games.
If they only sold a few hundred thousand copies on an 11MM user base... what is going to make those same few hundred thouse buy it again (assuming most WiiU owners buy a Switch) and strive the other new users to buy what will be perceived as an "old game"?
That is where his mental model of adding more to the game makes sense. There has to be something about the game for it to make sense to put dev work back into it.
Perfect example failure is going to be LEGO City Undercover. Why would anyone rebuy this for $60? What is making it new and interesting to people now if they didn't already want it on WiiU (or the other consoles it was ported to)?
Their mental model on this is right. Porting an old game is not valuable unless you are adding something to it. Only exception would be VC type games as that value is being able to play it on new hardware decades later.
