If they don't have some sort of discount for MK8 Deluxe for people who currently own MK8 for Wii U that will be quite upsetting considering you will have to pay another $60 just to get some dlc and revamped battle mode. Maybe $25 tops to upgrade to deluxe wouldn't be so bad and would probably help sell the deluxe game better than it will.
I think what a lot of y'all are forgetting is the general public's role in this. The GP chose to reject the Wii U the moment it was launched (also due to the pricing, bad advertising/marketing techniques, and lack of strong launch titles) and once they have done that then the system is basically doomed for good.
Everyone loves to overuse the name confusion excuse but honestly I don't think that many people were confused by the systems title it was more so that they already owned a nice Wii they enjoyed and didn't want to spend the extra money for what seemed to be an unpromising system at launch. It's like saying "Well since it is called the Xbox one people may be confused that they are re-releasing the first generation Xbox" The Xbox has always been called the Xbox and the PS the PS through each recent generation because they have always offered a similar concept. The Wii U always had a similar concept to the Wii but with an extra strange controller and not much else so I don't know why some of y'all feel so betrayed by Nintendo when you were the one who chose to buy it considering the circumstances.
The Wii U wasn't a bad system, just extremely rushed which caused a poor launch with some not so up to standard specs (which really weren't all that horrible for nintendo?), and a lot of misconceptions and false negativity especially from people who never even owned the system. Hopefully Nintendo has learned from this and their mistakes, I am excited and hopeful for the Switch's future.
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If they don't have some sort of discount for MK8 Deluxe for people who currently own MK8 for Wii U that will be quite upsetting considering you will have to pay another $60 just to get some dlc and revamped battle mode. Maybe $25 tops to upgrade to deluxe wouldn't be so bad and would probably help sell the deluxe game better than it will.
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I think what a lot of y'all are forgetting is the general public's role in this. The GP chose to reject the Wii U the moment it was launched (also due to the pricing, bad advertising/marketing techniques, and lack of strong launch titles) and once they have done that then the system is basically doomed for good.
Everyone loves to overuse the name confusion excuse but honestly I don't think that many people were confused by the systems title it was more so that they already owned a nice Wii they enjoyed and didn't want to spend the extra money for what seemed to be an unpromising system at launch. It's like saying "Well since it is called the Xbox one people may be confused that they are re-releasing the first generation Xbox" The Xbox has always been called the Xbox and the PS the PS through each recent generation because they have always offered a similar concept. The Wii U always had a similar concept to the Wii but with an extra strange controller and not much else so I don't know why some of y'all feel so betrayed by Nintendo when you were the one who chose to buy it considering the circumstances.
The Wii U wasn't a bad system, just extremely rushed which caused a poor launch with some not so up to standard specs (which really weren't all that horrible for nintendo?), and a lot of misconceptions and false negativity especially from people who never even owned the system. Hopefully Nintendo has learned from this and their mistakes, I am excited and hopeful for the Switch's future.