| SpokenTruth said: I did have an actual reason. One I've said many, many times. It's a general marketing practice. The purpose behind it is irrelevant. I told you they wouldn't do a ND before AC launched because it's a standard practice in marketing to not interfere with your big product launch. And what happened, they followed the guideline just like I said they would. And I said over and over and over. |
As I just said, if it's not about sales a.k.a. money, the thing business's actually care about, then your reason is irrelevant. The purpose of marketing and business in general, which is to sell product and make money, is entirely relevant, as those are the metrics used to determine what is or isn't a bad decision. I don't believe business's care about blindly upholding your marketing guidelines no matter the circumstance or context, certainly not Nintendo who's broken many a standard practice with the Switch.
You can believe they specifically dated the direct to not interfere with AC, despite the fact they had an Indie world right before it and even though the direct was not even a week later. However, by saying interfering, you are again implying sales would be negatively affected. That is the point of contention here, whether a direct prior to ACNH would "steal thunder"/"interfere" with it or make no difference at all.
If you truly don't believe a direct can negatively impact ACNH sales despite you saying words that mean otherwise, then good, that's also admittance that a direct prior to release wouldn't hurt.
