Cheesemeister said:Look at it from a marketing perspective. Wii owners each have a finite number of gaming hours. Why allow a bunch of those hours to be taken up by an $8 downloaded RPG title when that time could be filled with play on a more profitable $50 retail title instead? A lower price point is fine for bite-sized chunks of gameplay that VC titles thus far offer, but profits could be maximized through new games by holding back classic RPGs.
Not that I condone it, of course. *coughsquareenixcough*
This makes sense but then it also seems like the gamer who is waiting for Ys will probably buy a lot of games either way. Something a little more mainstream like a Mario RPG I can see stealing sales from other releases.