You guys need to stop for just a minute and actually THINK about why Nintendo would ever do this. Wiis are still selling out all over the place. Everybody is already going to buy Brawl when it comes out. How does it benefit Nintendo at all to spend time and money releasing a demo? There would be more people that just get tired of that and don't buy the final product than the other way around.
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Hopefully people besides the lucky and priveliged get to play ssbb.
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Kittah4
Smash Ace
Nintendo is pretty much into profit-mongering. Unless you had to buy the demo, they'd have to lose a decent amount of money to mass-produce a demo. I'm just not sure they'd do that. It's a shame, but we'll STILL have to wait almost 4 months to play this game that's been teasing us for so, so long.
Goldkirby
Smash Ace
Haha, I'm only 5 minutes away from where it is being held, but I'm not going because I don't want to pay more then what the game will cost me just to play it for a couple hours on the weekend. Waay too much money just to get into the convention imo.
The reason we won't see a demo of SSBB is because of money.
Nintendo knows they'll make a crap load off of Brawl whether or not new players decide to try it. Word of mouth will spread the game. Simply put, a free, public promotional demo isn't needed.
Nintendo would have to pay everyone involved in the development additional money to use this "new" product available to all the public, because in the game business world, a public demo isn't seen as a trial or an "in progress piece of work"; it's seen as a completely different product for the market, thus Nintendo would have to shell out additional money to everyone involved, on top of the original development costs. Demos have always been done this way, except it is usually planned from the start, so the "additional payment" is already factored into the budget.
Nintendo knows they'll make a crap load off of Brawl whether or not new players decide to try it. Word of mouth will spread the game. Simply put, a free, public promotional demo isn't needed.
Nintendo would have to pay everyone involved in the development additional money to use this "new" product available to all the public, because in the game business world, a public demo isn't seen as a trial or an "in progress piece of work"; it's seen as a completely different product for the market, thus Nintendo would have to shell out additional money to everyone involved, on top of the original development costs. Demos have always been done this way, except it is usually planned from the start, so the "additional payment" is already factored into the budget.
Why is everyone assuming downloading a demo would be the best way to recieve it. I was wondering why noone has suggested rececing it as a send away bonus for regestering games like that Zelda disk a while back. That way we can get a brawl demo and nintendo can still rake in profits*from holiday sales. I mean, who doesn't need another reason to go pick up Mario Galaxy.