Poll of the Day > Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury trailer

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-Say "that's annoying, I'm not buying that" and move on with your life
-Suck it up and buy the game (ideally after waiting for a reasonable discount)
Oh hey two very easy solutions that don't involve ruined lives. Who knew?

Neither is a solution. Particularly since the port will never have a significant discount. I cannot move on from not playing that game. But if I suck it up my life will still be shit because a game company managed to touch my nerve to rip me off.

Late 2013 was only hen the PS4 and Xbone came out. It really wasn't until 2015 or so that it became apparent that the WiiU definitely wasn't getting back on track (after several high-profile releases that failed to salvage it, including Smash, Mario Kart, SM3DW, and Xenoblade, and with BotW delayed far enough for pushing it forward to be an option). After that point, it was a matter of getting what they could out of it until the Switch came out (which had been announced by then), which is pretty clearly what happened.

By late 2013 Wii U was already a disaster, if they wanted to salvage the Wii U they should have prepared to write off all the losses for all the games developed for that console.

I don't know if you think they should have released the Switch four years sooner or something equally impossible, but the course the WiiU took is very much a reasonable one for a console that underperformed as badly as it did from a company that was still in good enough shape to stick around afterward. They got a successor out relatively quickly so they could move on, but continued to support it until that point so they could maintain as much of a revenue stream as possible.

They should have made the gamepad optional. They should have done a price cut. They should have not ported a single Wii U game to Switch and write off all losses (in fact they did write off all losses by the time Switch launched). And not add old content to ports.

No, it's always a gamble. Exclusives are the only reason to own a specific system (especially one of Nintendo's, which doesn't get the multiplat support others tend to), and it's always a crapshoot whether or not those exclusives will be worth the purchase of the console. Ask Xbone owners which exclusives they bought their system for and see how many of them can't even come up with one off the top of their head. Ask yourself which exclusives you bought your PS5 for.

XBone was a good subsitute for a PC. Wii U had zero redeeming qualities since all of them were ported to Switch.

Again, you seem to think that companies know which consoles will fail on day one. If they knew, they wouldn't launch them. I really don't know why you keep coming back to this "don't promise support for consoles that end up failing 4-5 years later" thing as though Nintendo had the hindsight benefit you currently enjoy back in 2012. it's quite absurd.

Nintendo knew Wii U was a dud back in 2013 and that there was a real possibility it could not be salvaged. They had two options: ditch the Wii U or support it like Gamecube and write off all losses so they could save their reputation. They did neither: instead they released games for Wii U but ported them to other consoles as soon as they could. So the support they gave to Wii U was a sham.

And you got to play SM3DW. Woohoo! Satisfaction! Your purchase was vindicated! Stop acting like you've been horribly wronged because you aren't getting something beyond what you bought the system for. What you got from that purchase hasn't changed. If you were satisfied with it then, you should be satisfied with it now. You're not entitled to anything more than what you chose to pay for. Get over yourself.

My purchase wasn't vindicated because I could play SM3DW on Switch anyway and I missed out on Bowser's Fury and will never get to play it. It doesn't matter that what I got from my purchased wasn't changed. It doesn't matter that I was satisfied then. What matters is I can never buy Bowser's Fury as a reasonable price so I can never play it. If I buy a game I am entitled to never miss out on any content for that game because they refuse to give a discount to those who own it. I can only be satisfied if I never have to pay $60 for any content any game dev adds on any game I already bought. Anything else is a rip off.

Far-Queue posted...

I made an informed decision but I still got screwed. That's the problem. How can you know which games will be ported and which won't so you never get screwed? You can't.

Master_Magnus posted...

I made an informed decision but I still got screwed.

Sounds more like an ill-informed decision bruh

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Far-Queue posted...

Sounds more like an ill-informed decision bruh

Did you know Super Mario 3D World would get ported to another console back in 2013?

Master_Magnus posted...

Did you know Super Mario 3D World would get ported to another console back in 2013?

Yup. Anyone with half a brain would know that

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My uncle who works at Nintendo told me it was going to be ported to the Switch way back in 2013. Looks like you just werent in the know.