Is this people ordering hardware and the Zelda cartridge separately and the game not arriving for launch day and people buying the digital version, with the intention or returning the physical version but returns not counting or not being processed in time?
Could be parents or relatives grabbing copies of Zelda for kids and not getting the system right[emoji1]
Could be. I didn't have a Wii U but that would have been a much cheaper way to play Zelda. I would also have thought that a lot of people who really like Zelda may already have a Wii U in which case that's even cheaper.
Yes, but if the content isn't dependant on the hardware, the choices for hardware could have been different. Quite possibly a cheaper new handheld with none of the gimmickry (no rumble, dock, fixed controls instead of removable, way better battery life, smaller form factor) would have sold even better. There's an important business philosophical question here, whether hardware makers should keep trying 'innovative' new stuff, or just eschew anything outside tight-focus on the core gaming principles. Good processors, RAM, good controller, and games - nothing else is warranted and just adds pointlessly to the costs while losing principle gamer interest.
So they don't need gimmicks or USPs and can just make a straight-forward box to play their games, no?
PS4 was cheaper and better at basic gaming. MS had to scramble to undo their gimmickry and get back to creating a games console.
That's what I've always wanted Sony to deliver but where the PSP and Vita fell short. Quite a few games landed on PS3/PS4 and Vita but very few were Cross Buy (buy once for both devices) and fewer still for Cross Play (cross-platform cloud saves). Nintendo get me more than Sony.
