Look, I love to be that guy, but it really, really isn't.
Brawl sold 10.79 million copies worldwide.
If
every single competitive smasher decided to not buy the game they wouldn't even go below the 10 million mark.
If
every single competitive smasher decided to buy Brawl
again they wouldn't get to 11 million. Maybe if you counted every competitive smasher ever, but current numbers no.
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Big whoop. 570 people is a drop in the bucket.
You know what isn't a drop in the bucket?
Commentary like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdTClFt98PI&feature=youtu.be&t=5m8s
Articles like this:
http://boingboing.net/2012/02/29/meet-the-sexist-racist-pigs-o.html
That turn people off of games.
Those commentators complaining about the Brawl match because it was on stages like mushroom Kingdom I and custom stages (legally due to the gentleman's clause) is a huge, huge stain on the competitive community. It makes people not want to be involved because the commentators were jerkoffs that were too occupied with trying to be cool than actually going along for the ride and generating hype (which is their job).
Nintendo doesn't want strife within its games community. It wants live and let live.
The comments that say things like "lol whatever Brawl" and "that's what you get for commentating Brawl"?
Nintendo doesn't want that. It doesn't want people badmouthing Brawl. It's a more popular game by an iteration of several
million (multiple times the entire Melee community) and they don't want people on a soapbox going after any smash game, let alone the most recent one. Especially not when it's near it's successor, Smash 4.
That article? Stemmed from a tournament where a bunch of 2D fighter jerks decided to be idiots in public and had it plastered all over the internet. The absolute worst side of their community has been broadcasted and a stigma has been placed on them because of this. These are games focused on adults and are made profitable by forcing grown men to buy the same game at $50 three times and having DLC dress up options. Street Fighter IV! Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition! Street Fighter IV Ultimate Edition! Street Fighter IV Ultimate Turbo Edition! Whatever.
Can you imagine the potential backlash if that happened to a
children's game? If mom and dad's first impressions were a website sent to them that shows a video of Melee kids screaming "get *****" and "****ing owned"? They would have a negative association with the game and the very, very carefully constructed brand would be tarnished.
On top of all of this? People are making money by streaming their IP and they've taken a stand against that.
In no way, shape or form is this "good advertisement" for smash 4. Have you even TALKED to a melee player? They're complete and total *******s when it comes to talking about smash, totally devoid of joy because it's become popular. Most of them saw the Smash 4 trailer, saw it wasn't like Melee, and have discounted it until further evidence shows its worth.
It's the wrong demographic, the wrong people, the wrong message, the wrong medium, and it's totally uncontrollable by Nintendo.
You want to make a difference? Make them think that the negative press for canceling the streaming is worse than the negative press for having Melee streamed and the "lost revenue" from someone streaming their game.
