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Ulternia on 02 May 2018
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Mar1217 said:
Well, it's back ! Guess the tantrum from these 50 WiiU owners worked ...

(If only it could with Mother 3 too ...)

Let’s see if the demand really was there. The number of people complaining online would be more than enough to push Tropical Freeze to the top of the Wii U eShop charts for at least the month of May. How much do you want to bet it doesn’t happen?

chakkra said:
Rocketjay8 said:

I think that people here are overreacting. I would have called Nintendo of America out on this but the WiiU is a dead console anyways. It's not going to hurt the people who completely abandoned their WiiU. Although this is a really strange thing to do. 

The Wii U may have been officially discontinued by Nintendo but that doesn't mean that the 13.5m people who bought it just decided to throw theirs out in the garbage.

I mean, according to VGC almost 200,000 physical copies of games have been sold this year so far on the Wii U.  That means many people are still using them.

And this type of behavior is something that we should not be applauding ANY COMPANY for doing it. So no, I do not think that this was an overreaction, I think this was just the right amount of reaction.

I believe the argument was that it doesn’t need to be defended. The consumer should not be rewarded for being lazy and not adopting a title until they could undercut its newest port at Retro’s expense. The people claiming outrage are even more transparent - the game has been around for four years, the physical is still available for $20 (or less), the digital is available through other retailers, etc. Nintendo just didn’t want to continue selling a lower cost version of a brand new port which is just good business acumen.