22nd February 2006, 5:04 PM
How so? I didn't pay any fees to get online.
I'm also fairly sure a lot of people would have bought the online games if they were offline. Not I, but the point remains there is currently no "control group" to conduct a proper scientific test of whether it was truly the online feature that sold the game. The numbers don't lie, but they are also only saying one thing. The thing they are saying is simply that a lot of people are using the online feature of the game :D.
If it can be well established that YES, people are buying the game mainly for online play (and Nintendo is attempting to verify this via survey), THEN we have one last thing. Will better online service result in more sales? I think so.
I'm also fairly sure a lot of people would have bought the online games if they were offline. Not I, but the point remains there is currently no "control group" to conduct a proper scientific test of whether it was truly the online feature that sold the game. The numbers don't lie, but they are also only saying one thing. The thing they are saying is simply that a lot of people are using the online feature of the game :D.
If it can be well established that YES, people are buying the game mainly for online play (and Nintendo is attempting to verify this via survey), THEN we have one last thing. Will better online service result in more sales? I think so.
"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)