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Forums - Nintendo - Wii U has been hurt by lack of Rentals- Report

sidmeiernintifan on 07 February 2014

Hola Legendary!, escribí eso sin haber visto antes que eras argentino también.

Where did you find those Wii U games? I bought mine on mercadolibre and shops in Cabildo galleries.

I rented super nintendo games in Blockbuster, and pirate Nes famicom games in any videostore. A pirate console that played Famicom games called Family Game was much more popular than the original NES. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_game



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shloob on 07 February 2014
kupomogli said:

Rentals hurt sales more than help them. Nintendo needs more demos on the 3DS and Wii U and don't limit them to a certain amount of uses.

The thing about Nintendo demos is that the games have demos for what. A month before Nintendo pulls them, if that? Nintendo needs to get out of the mindset that they're going to be selling every game at full MSRP and accept the fact that a lot of people might rather buy at $20 or $30. By leaving the demos on the marketplace, then people will be able to play the games and might end up getting it after they play it regardless how old it is.


That is simply not true. People generally rent games they never had any intention on purchasing but there is a good chance someone will rent a game and like it to the point where they want to keep it. Gamefly is actually a great way to buy games at a low cost. you pay you rmonthly fee and if they send you a new game and you wanna keep it you save$15 instantly cause its not considered a used game. You wait a few extra days and can get any new game for $45. Hell of a deal if you dont mind the wait. Then as soon as you decide to keep it they send out whatever the next game in your queue is.



sabastian on 07 February 2014
spurgeonryan said:
kupomogli said:

Rentals hurt sales more than help them. Nintendo needs more demos on the 3DS and Wii U and don't limit them to a certain amount of uses.

The thing about Nintendo demos is that the games have demos for what. A month before Nintendo pulls them, if that? Nintendo needs to get out of the mindset that they're going to be selling every game at full MSRP and accept the fact that a lot of people might rather buy at $20 or $30. By leaving the demos on the marketplace, then people will be able to play the games and might end up getting it after they play it regardless how old it is.

I think they should leave Demos up for as long as the system is being updated, but unlimited uses?

No. I think it should just be once. Then if you liked it you can go for more. Just enough to pique the gamers interest. Why would they want to play the demo more than once anyways? Besides the tony Hawk and Matt Hoffman demo on the PS back in the day.

I once downloaded the demo of Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed to my Vita, thats all my son played for like 3 months straight. Saved me $30 from purchasing the whole game...



snyps on 07 February 2014

i think demos are a poor way to sell a game. First levels are always the worst in almost every game. eShop needs it's own rental service.



kupomogli on 07 February 2014
snyps said:
i think demos are a poor way to sell a game. First levels are always the worst in almost every game. eShop needs it's own rental service.

The demo on Brutal Legend is what got me to purchase the game.  The part where the demo ends and the full game begins, it goes from, hey this is pretty cool, to what a steaming pile of sh**.