Wyrdness said:
Indicator of billboards selling games? How about sales of games for decades before YT was even a thing, how those games got popular? Gaming sites, word of mouth and forums added to it while being driven by a cult following. The article just credits YT with no actual back up itself, I've seen videos of low selling games with massive views yet no change of situation at all indicating the videos are not much of a factor at all. |
So Sega, SE and Atlus monetized your videos? And when did you get flagged? And did you try to get in contact with the companies about the videos?
Ok, I'm sorry but I surely don't have to explain to you that things change, right? I mean what you're essentially saying is that we should have never gotten TV commercials after all things sold fine before that. We're living in a changing society and the internet is one of its biggest current factors, I thought that would be clear by now.
And you've never seen another marketing campaign fail? I mean what kind of a rebuttal is that? Nobody is saying that a video with a lot of Youtube views instantly equals a lot of sales, just like a billboard that's seen by a lot of people doesn't instantly equal a lot of sales, but to dismiss Youtube as irrelevant in marketing is just willfully trying to ignore the current world we're living in.
Regarding the article, how about you tell me what prompted people to suddenly demand Skate 3 in these quantities again 4 years after its launch, if it wasn't Youtube.
