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Forums - Nintendo - If Super Smash Bros Wii U doesn't come out this Holiday, will it cripple the Wii U more?

vivster said:
curl-6 said:
vivster said:
So will less people buy WiiU LTD if Smash comes out a few months later?

Spoiler:
No.

Yes.

A major game released in Q1-2 will never be as big a hit as it would have been in November, and by the next holiday rush, it'll no longer be new and exciting.

Going by this forum, the hype is so big that it will ignore any release windows.

People wh want to buy a Wii U for this game they will do so. It may have a hit on software sales but probably none on hardware sales.

Of course that won't keep a certain section of this forum to take it as an excuse.

And that's the mistake you make in your post. This forum doesn't respresent everything.



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curl-6 said:
Miyamotoo said:
Nintendo confirms few times that date is holiday 2014!
3DS version is in focus now because it comes out first.

They also confirmed Tropical Freeze for November 2013, and we all saw how that turned out...

I think that was a more strategic decision, and for holiday season they haved Mario 3D World very big sistem seller.



You can't cripple a dead thing anymore than it has been already. So I say makes no difference.

It may jolt the cripple a little to see if it moves lol.



 

 

Unless the game is irrevocably broken then nintendo has to push the game out for the holiday season. Smash missing out on black friday, or worse being pushed back to next year would be a horrible blow for their potential sales that they cannot afford.



If the game releases in 2015, then they're probably still underestimating the time and resources necessary to craft HD AAA titles...what happened with MK8 should've made them realize that they need to put more effort into Wii U games. Then again, a lot of titles are being or have been delayed for the same reasons (DC, Batman ecc.), so it's probably a common problem, but Nintendo is in a tough position and shouldn't allow themselves this luxury.



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vivster said:
curl-6 said:
vivster said:
So will less people buy WiiU LTD if Smash comes out a few months later?

Spoiler:
No.

Yes.

A major game released in Q1-2 will never be as big a hit as it would have been in November, and by the next holiday rush, it'll no longer be new and exciting.

Going by this forum, the hype is so big that it will ignore any release windows.

People wh want to buy a Wii U for this game they will do so. It may have a hit on software sales but probably none on hardware sales.

Of course that won't keep a certain section of this forum to take it as an excuse.

You need to remember we're not just talking about selling to the faithful here, but also to impulse buyers. It will move a lot more systems over the holiday rush, when people are more inclined to buy hardware, than later.



Smash could be out any time
The game is finished. All that needs to be done are playtesting and bug checking. So, I'd imagine either this weekend or next week we will get a release date for Black Friday in America and maybe December in Europe.



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

I'm 99% sure it will hit this year. I just can't see how Nintendo as a business could ever justify it not coming this Holiday. It would be suicide for them. I think they'd force Sakurai to release an unfinished product that could be patched later before they'd delay it to 2015.  However, I'm not 100% convinced it will hit before Black Friday, which is really when it needs to.



Why wouldn't Smash WiiU come out this holiday season? :S



                
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