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Kenryoku_Maxis on 05 May 2011
RolStoppable said:

Yeah, it sure was the marketing that is to blame for the Wii's freefall. Since this is Reuters, I just hope it's a taken-out-of-context story, otherwise... my god, what the hell is going on inside of Nintendo?!

Well, marketing partially was.  Because Nintendos marketing focused purely on itself.  Its only been in the last year or so, with Nintendo heavily marketing third party games, that this trend has changed.

But who can blame them.  They practically spent the entire life of the GameCube trying to make backdoor deals and advertise third party games.  And in the end, those same third parties screwed them over by porting their games to other systems or blaming them for its low sales.

And third parties did the exact same thing on the Wii.

If anything, this is Nintendo showing they can be the bigger man (company) and still accept third party support, even after being ignored and stabbed in the back.  Despite evidence in the past showing they can keep a console going just on their own IPs alone.



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psrock on 05 May 2011
Galaki said:

Nintendo isn't going to get 3rd party support until they downgrade their AAAA games to AA games.

3rd parties cannot compete using their AAA games, otherwise.


oh no, I hope Nintendo never stop offering us those AAAA games they give us so much just for the sake of getting AA 3rd party games.



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SaviorX on 05 May 2011

I think he is only speaking exclusively about marketing;

within the past two years, I have seen commercials for the following Wii games:

  • Monster Hunter Tri
  • Epic Mickey
  • uDraw
  • Just Dance 2
  • Goldeneye
  • Tatsunoko vs Capcom
  • Sin & Punishment 2

MJ Experience & Sonic Colors never lent themselves to being entirey Wii exclusive in the advertising; they still sold well.

So as we can see, the Wii gets one commercial reminding the public of its existence every in an extremely sporadic manner. Respectively, the commercials aired:

  • April 2010
  • November 2010
  • April 2011
  • November 2010-April 2011
  • November 2010
  • February 2010
  • July 2010

So within the past 5 months, only 2 games have reminded people the Wii still exists while I can promise you at least 1 DOZEN PS3 commercials have aired this year, along with consistent Kinect commercials that have been airing for 8 months straight now.

Within the past 24 months, only 7 games were advertised, with several running during the same time period.

There are droughts that last:

  • 2 months (1)
  • 3 months (2)
  • 4 months (1)

That adds up to more than a year of no type of Wii promotion going on.



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