Gaming's worst marketing/business decisions?

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AbbathTheGrim on 02 July 2016

What are some of those marketing tactics that you've seen in gaming that made you go: "They really dropped the ball when they greenlighted that shit! o.O" when you saw it.

It could be some promotional trailer, business decision or any decision that was simply no good in yielding good results for the console maker or gaming company?

What comes to your mind when it comes to bad business/marketing decisions in gaming?

Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

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Signalstar on 02 July 2016

Nintendo stabbing Sony in the back to partner with Phillips without even telling Sony has to be all time number 1. When you create your biggest competitor who then surpasses you...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1gWECYYOSo

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midrange on 02 July 2016

The name "wii u".

When your accessories and games are called wii balance board, wii remote, wii motion plus, wii fit, wii play, wii sports, and so on, who thought "wii u" would be an acceptable name for a console

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HylianYoshi on 02 July 2016

GameCube discs. Seriously, WTF Nintendo?

bet: lost

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Not making PS4 backwards compatible like the fat PS3 was.

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Ruler on 02 July 2016

HylianYoshi said:

GameCube discs. Seriously, WTF Nintendo?

how was it bad? itsa disc

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DonFerrari on 02 July 2016

going against Playstation

duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

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pokoko on 02 July 2016

The decision to not show the actual Wii U console. People really did think it was a Wii upgrade.

Xbox One initial design nearly killed the brand. Seriously.

Sony revealing The Last Guardian 18 years before release. Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea, though, as it was the main reason I bought a PS3 ...

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