Not really, most of the previews are already praying that as a smart move because there is so much content that it can be easily overwhelming for the player and to design levels is way more complex than it seems, so maybe some hardcore gamers would have no problem but this game is also targeted to casual players and kids and that´s another story, the also are teaching an entire comunity on how to do decent levels, so aftter 9 days experimenting with the tools, the chances of them doing better levels are high. You have paid for a game that works this way, Nintendo has already told you how it works, so you know what you are buying, if you don´t like it, you don´t buy it, don´t make it sound so entitled because they are selling you the product as it is. And by the way, I guess Animal Crossing is the worst game ever, as you can´t access to all the content sice day 1, because things evolve and change every day, so you need almost a full year to unlock everything, or maybe is just a design choice, one that makes the game be as brilliant as it is.

I dont know about Animal Crossing, but here is an interest point of view related to this from a Pro Nintendo Web Site.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/editorial/40974/super-mario-makers-slow-unlocking-feels-more-frustrating-than-fun

Even when he is one of the reviews that don´t praise it, he still thinks is a good idea, he only complainst because 9 days seems too much. But this is a non-issue as if you feel very restricted you can change the clock on the WiiU and they didn´t do nothing to prevent you from doing that ( as they do in AC) because they know some people is gonna do that, but the most casual crowd is probably not, they are gonna learn instead.

Those bastards! I've never liked them anyway.

If 500 sales on 1 platform was considered a failure, then wouldn't logic dictate that 2000 sales on 4 platforms would roughly be considered a failure too? Each console brings it's own and increases dev costs, probably exponentially.

Atleast a dev can fail on one platform and lose one quater of the money they would've lost if sales were equally bad on others.

Evidence to N++ being unsuccesfull? Considering it was sony pubfund funded, it was always going to go to PC as almost every other pubfund game has done so.

Now let's not mix this up. Sony worked with That Game Company to create 3 titles for them. They didn't merely see the titles and say "We want that, here's 500grand" Sony owns Flower and Journey because they essentially gave and treated TGC like their own studio for the contract duration.

No Mans Sky is a timed console exclusive as far as we know, as Sean has said plenty of times he would like to see it everywhere. Consider the budget for the scale of the game, it'd be huge. And then consider the sales he likely got with Joe Danger, modest, at best. Plus Hello Games was flooded 2 years ago destroying a bunch of their IT equipment. It's fortunate someone is helping them and allowing them to simultaneously release on PC.

Ori, same deal with Microsoft. Microsoft assisted in production. 

And finally, for every successfull kickstarter you listed, there's 50 unsuccessful ones. Only the ones that get attention on media outlets get funded. What if I pitched a game tomorrow. Chances are kotaku will not feature it unless I do something crazy and viral. I cannot rely on kickstarter and would end up needing a publisher, or a loan.

but we have the (indie) games.

As long the games are there, no problem with losing exclusivity for me.

Paying Indies is bad, they don't bring a whole lot of new customers as the big AAA games. So I doesn't end up growing the base in the end.

Yeah, I'm quoting myself...

Imma retract this and take it back..

was doin nothing last night and decided to pick up my 3ds which was gathering dust ever since i bought it a few months back. I browsed througth teh eshop, which is ugly and awful as sin imo and happened accross some indie games which i would definitly want to have. I counted about 8 games that seemed really cool.

Indies arent really system sellers but they would help sway a purchase for someone on the fence which now what i believe since if i didn't have a 3ds, those handfull of indie titles would sway me to get a 3ds along with bravery default.

Agree, I dont think it would be smart to invest money in Indie exclusives, much smarter is to invest money in project like Lego City Undercover or Bayonetta 2.