20th August 2004, 12:58 PM
I believe their thinking isn't that they need to increase GBA sales, it's that they need to MAINTAIN those sales, and the only way to do that is to keep the stream of games coming. They likely figure if they focus on the GCN, and the big name titles for GBA drop as a result, the people will turn away from the GBA, and they don't know if they could recover, not with the PSP right around the corner. And yes, I also do believe it's not about selling more GBAs, just more games. Make a game for the GCN and you will sell FAR less copies than if you make one for the GBA.
I'm fairly certain focusing on the most succesful system makes good business sense.
I'm fairly certain focusing on the most succesful system makes good business sense.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)