"During this early time window--the launch period--the initial investment is significantly high, " says Mark Beaumont, who heads sales and marketing for game publisher Capcom .
We're told that Snow Leopard upgrades have basically "doubled" compared to the amount of folks that upgraded to Leopard during the same five-week-after-launch period, though box shipments are expected to slow as the amount of loyalists living without 10.6 dwindles.
Despite not being shown with the gamepad controller, Pikmin 3 was one of my two favorite Wii U games at E3, the other one being Zombi U. It has the potential to be one of the stars of the Wii U launchperiod, but the lack of online multiplayer is going to hold it back from being the true Wii U showcase it could have been.