JNK said:
Miyamotoo said:
It does matter, things could be quite difrent if Splatoon, Mario Kart or Mario Maker were launch titles, instead we had Nintendo Land and basically HD version of NSMB. Wii U died in first year, all big games like Mario 3D World, Mario Kart, Smash, Splatoon, Mario Maker...arrived on system when basically was dead and nothing could save it after first year.
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give one reason why it would had changed anything? People that are interested in Mario Kart would had get the system on launch instead of summer 2014. Maybe some more sales at launch, but alot less sales later. Wouldnt had changed anything. The Ps4 had a as worse launch lineup as the wii u btw.
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"give one reason why it would had changed anything? People that are interested in Mario Kart would had get the system on launch instead of summer 2014."
Its all about perception, on one side you have launch of new console with great games, on other side you have great games coming on already dead platform (Wii U case), and people dont buy dead platform despite good games (Wii U is proof of that). So some people would buy Wii U at launch if it had Mario Kart or Splatoon, but with those weak launch titles Wii U had majority of people didn't bought it on launch, and when good games finally come to Wii U, Wii U was already consider like ultimate failures, all 3rd party abandoned platform, future of platform is uncertain....so people despite later launch of good games did not buyed console, they simply decided to skip platform like that.
"Maybe some more sales at launch, but alot less sales later."
Thats whole point, in order to be successful platform it needs to have good sales in first year, because good sales bring better support, better reception and better awareness of console and all that influence that console find place on market. Wii U on other hand had terrible sales in first year after launch and basically was dead after first year, nothing could save it.
"The Ps4 had a as worse launch lineup as the wii u btw."
Thing with PS4 is that most of people don't buy PS4 because exclusives, they buying it because of multiplatforms games, and PS4 proof istelf like best console for multi platform games, there is report that even PC players are moving to PS4. While Nintendo consoles are all about exclusive games, nobody buys Nintendo console in first place to play multi platform games, ever consumers wants that Nintendo console have multi platform games also.