Show me proof TV is the best way to advertise your product.
If you can do that I'll believe you.
It's common sense that TV advertisements are the best way to sell a product. Common sense doesn't need to be explained.
Hardly. If you're going to say TV is the best form of advertising, you need to back it up.
My opinion (opinion, mind you) is that we live in a time now where people spend less time watching TV and more time on the Internet or social media. If you ask me that's where the focus for advertising should be, and Nintendo has been doing very well in that area lately.
Show me proof TV is the best way to advertise your product.
If you can do that I'll believe you.
It's common sense that TV advertisements are the best way to sell a product. Common sense doesn't need to be explained.
So you don't have proof?
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Show me proof TV is the best way to advertise your product.
If you can do that I'll believe you.
It's common sense that TV advertisements are the best way to sell a product. Common sense doesn't need to be explained.
It's also common sense to know that people differ by a large margin. I know for a fact that not everyone watches TV, let alone at specific times when commercials are played. I know quite a few people that don't watch TV at all. Yet you want to convince me that this is somehow the best form of advertisement?
It's also common sense to back up such claims with hard data rather than some statement. It's not "common sense", but rather a statement you made up on the spot based on data you collected on a minuscule sampling data (read: yourself and a few others). That sampling data does not represent everyone as a whole
Can you tell me how many people responded to this survey?
I can do a survey of 1000 people, asking them what their favorite flavor is. Does that mean that the flavor in question is somehow the favorite of the world?
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Not only is the first one the most unreliable of the lot (survey), it's also almost 4 years old. Irrelevant in such a changing market.
M&M article only looks at TV campaigns between 06 and 11. Not reliable enough in the current market.
The Forbes article, the most recent at 2012, makes a convincing point that online advertising is becoming very popular. Look at the reach and increase on spending.
Find me something from 2013/2014.
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A couple of issues, one the survey in question is going on four years old.
Secondly, we are making the assumption that people who watch television on TV are largely the crowd who would buy a Wii u. Demographic is an important thing we should not overlook.
To show you why your posts are not relevant to today, the percentage of people who watch media online went from 13% from the date of your sources to 1/3 in 2013. I'm trying to find more recent sources but that number could have grown to 40% since then.
I've seen little ads for the 3DS outside of Smash on TV lately. Nintendo's issue is internet ads. They have numerous internet ads for games such as Hyrule Warriors (that game had tons on internet ads) but the ads are on gaming sites so they are ineffective as people already know about the game or they don't see any of the ads because of adblock.
To be fair I don't think that Hyrule Warriors is the sort of game that appeals to a mass market at all. I mean it has Zelda attached to which I'm sure is the main reason its selling but at its core it's Dynasty Warriors. A very Japanese game that does ok but not fantastic in Japan and barely even registers as worth it everywhere else. No matter what they did that game was only going to sell to people who were enough into gaming that they already knew about it.
If they were going to push something it'd be Smash and Mario Kart. But the thing about those games is that they have enough of a reputation that in this age of non-traditional media you see stuff about them everywhere. I can see the value in still pushing them and maybe they are but I don't see enough ads to have noticed either way.
It's the best way to advertise your product. Where do you think all those PS4 and XBox One sales are coming from? People who saw a commercial of it on their TVs. The Wii U isn't selling well, do you know why? Because there's little to no advertisements on TV.
It's a pretty simplistic view of things really. Ever consider the possibility that maybe to the "average gamer" the PS4/XBOne simply offer a better value proposition? I mean I personally love the Wii U, I love it more than my PC even. But some people aren't into Nintendo games and some other people maybe just thought they have enough of a Nintendo hit with their 3DS. The user-base balance shifts rapidly from generation to generation and even from year to year.
It's like politics. Every election they bombard you with ads on all sides. It's gotten to the point where it's actually pretty damn annoying. However no matter how much they scream at you there's still large movement from election to election. Some years no amount of campaigning can change things because people have simply made up their minds.
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@skywake Oh, my comment wasn't referring to niche games (like Hyrule Warriors) only. They had internet ads for big games too. Poor wording on my part. Hyrule Warriors was an example because I remember seeing that game more than the others
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