I'm seeing the most extravagant excuses to discount GTA V sales (and I don't even like or have played it).
All I'm seeing is justification for Nintendo to go third party so instead of having 100M to sell WiiSports or 14M to sell Mario 3D they would have over 500M customers considering all consoles and PC and perhaps over 3Billion with all smartphones. But I'm certain most of the guys doing this discounts wouldn't agree with Nintendo going 3rd party.
Have people in VGC still haven't learn that the correlation between userbase and SW sold is very loose? You can't put a game that sold 5M on a 10M userbase would sell 50M on a 100M userbase. If that happened all Nintendo franchises on Wii would be monstruous sellers when looking at how much they sold on WiiU.
The less sales the HW have the more likely to be hardcore dedicated fans and genre followers is to happen.
duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363
Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994
Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."
