Yes, obviously. But I thought Nintendo were trying to recapture the 'core' gamers as they call them. Stuff like this, scares them off.
Nintnedo had good commerical in the beginning - 'Wii would like to play' was brilliant. As far as 'celebrities' - how can they be celebrated persons if I , orlick, do not know who they are?
So Nintendos marketing does blow, but you are crazy if you think Nintendos most ferveant and loyal customers, the hardcore, are scared off. They are closet causlas anyway, they buy all the games.
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It's what happens when your culture revolves around celebrities.
For what it's worth, they annoy me as well. Almost to the point where I pine for those Xbox commercials to be shown in their place. The one with the labotomy patient as the camera pans round her head to show a concert inside her head.
Funnily enough, I can't recall any interesting Nintendo adverts in the last 10 years because they've either been complete dump or non-existent.
we may find the 'tee hee, watch a celebrity play Wii/DSi games' commercials insipid, but if the unwashed masses are really eating it up, Nintendo's gotta do what they've gotta do to keep sales up at the moment. whatever it takes to keep their numbers in the black, y'know?
(i reeeeeeeally hate the stupid celebrity commercials... seriously, who gives a rat's behind if Carrie Underwood likes playing her DS while she's on tour, or if Beyonce can't play Rhythm Heaven for crap? ugh... i just mute them as they come on now. :/)
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Who IS Beyonce? everyone always talks about her but idk who she is and dont feel like using wikepedia The BIS commercial was awesome what are you talking about?! Sure it was alittle...stupid and kinda.....dumb and sure the kids couldn't say mario right but other than that the commercial was...uh...great?
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If the commercials with celebrities work and help push more people towards the Wii, then I'm all for it. Nintendo knows they don't really have to advertise for the "core" gamers, most of us buy whatever they put out without any questions, so what's the point?
However, that Punch-Out!! commercial is one of my favorites. We're gonna be saying sayonara to him.
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And yes, the Punch-Out ad for the win, by far, and that is the precise reason I'd like Nintendo to do more like that. That advert was watched all over youtube and probably still is, AND it will be remembered fondly in 10/20 yrs by nostalgic Ninty fans. I'm gonna re-state my hatred for the lazy advertising tactics displayed by Nintendo of late, I'm beyond caring about profit's and margins when they are ****ing wasting them on Ant n' Dec, whilst increasing the Wii price tag. Me, and everyone I know, laugh at them and mock them when they appear on telly, then bow our heads in shame. But then, we don't watch X-Factor, so what do we know.
Nintendo might be popular at the moment, but they aint cool.
Ant and Dec are one step to far into dirge, why couldn't they swap with Swift Cover and get Iggy Pop doing the Ninty Adverts, that would be fun But on a serious note I don't give a bilge what advertising campaign Nintendo are rumming at the moment "To target a particular demographic". As long as there are still games coming out that I enjoy then that's cool with me, and i currently have a backlog of games to buy and play so its all good in the hood, at least for now.
@Link-Hero:Back in May before Klonoa Wii came out in the US,I saw that commercial almost every day.& I know Klonoa isn't popular,but what i'm trying to say is that the commercial was bad & it really wasn't influencing people to buy it.
Klonoa aside, I think it's a reach to say it wasn't influencing anyone and it really goes back to my comment that we all idealize our past WAY too much. This commercial is no different than any of the horrible GI Joe or Transformers ads when we were kids, but did we ever complain then? Nope, because we looked at the kids playing with the toys and said, "Holy man, I want to be doing that right now!". Look at those adds now that you're older...they're terrible. The Klonoa add, plain and simple, wasn't aimed at you, it was aimed at kids. Unless you're 10 or 12, then I don't know if you come even close to having the right perspective to accurately comment on the add.
I didn't want to bump this, as I'll just get more people saying "who cares if it's cool, it sells", but I have just had my first taste of Ant & Dec advertising Wii. I was just sat here watching the news quietly, then the advert break kicked in. Next thing you know my eyes are bleeding.
I don't care what anyone says. I strongly disagree with giving these gimps a million pounds each to, just to chat s*** and lick each others cheesy faces whilst 'enjoying Nintendo'. Lovely new website though, especially the Mario Kart race...
Yeah, the marketing is stupid, but they have to think about the rest of the people on Earth who DON'T have brains.
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Yeah, the marketing is stupid, but they have to think about the rest of the people on Earth who DON'T have brains.
This sadly sums it up I'm afraid I think the days of hardcore gaming ads are long gone you'll have to use the internet for stuff like that from now on methinks. Even MS and Sony's ad's have gone mightly mainstream to attract some of that casual revenue pie. Unless this casual gamer thing is a fad then we may see some ad's catered to the 'hardcore' (please note I do not like using the tems Hardcore & Casual but you know what I mean right..??)
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