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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - This is not DS,this is Nintendo 3DS - new ad clarifies things

naruball on 08 August 2011
RolStoppable said:
naruball said:
RolStoppable said:

Did any of Nintendo's most successful games of the last few years get any honest praise from the industry? No. 

um, what? How about Super Mario Galaxy 2 getting 10s from almost every single site, something that rarely happens with sequels (even lbp2 got lower than expected).

SMG2 isn't one of Nintendo's most successful games of the last few years. Neither was the first Super Mario Galaxy.

Well I may be wrong, but I thought it was definitely one of the best selling titles on the last few years. Can you give us some examples of Nintendo games that were more successful  and deserved better ratings from the reviewers?



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non-gravity on 08 August 2011

Ridge Racer a monumental title?



d21lewis on 08 August 2011

Note to self: Do not, under any circumstances, engage Roland in a Nintendo debate. His power level is too high.



Roma on 08 August 2011

this is actually an old add seen it before...



    R.I.P Mr Iwata :'(

IamAwsome on 08 August 2011
TheWon said:
killeryoshis said:
trasharmdsister12 said:
killeryoshis said:
That ad makes the 3DS system look like its made by a competitor especially with all the games they show. Not one nintendo game

I saw a brief glimpse of Ocarina for what it's worth...


And every other 3DS game sucks and it has no future is also what its saying as its just showing ports and remakes and sequals to games snd games that don't mean much. I believe only zelda is released and the other games shown are yet to be released. Just tells you how bad it is.

I believe the car game was ridge racer yeah.....

Also needs to be said this is a UK add. Which means it will never come over here. Nintendo of America can , and will find a better way than this.


Unless you live in Austraila or something. Everygame they showed except of Metal Gear has been released. Come on now if you going to say nonsense at least try.  

Also looks at above post! Spoken like a pure Malstromite.  Nintendo hasn't launched any system sense the SNES with a game the so called consumer wants.  If anything the 3DS one major flaw is not having a real 3DS game. The Wii success is all about the Wii series each game using the controls of the system. The DS finally touch of with the Touch Generation games that used the DS features in a interest way. If Nintendo can create a real 3DS game then and only then will the 3DS take off. Throwing 2D Mario, Brain Age, and other games like that. Are not going to help any system if you can get the exact same thing on a cheaper console. The 3DS needs new software that you can only get on the 3DS!

That has to be the main reason that it isn't selling, software. Screw the price, and consumer perception, those may not have had as big an affect as Nintendo thought, just look at the preorders. They should have waited to launch it when quality games were available, and they shouldn't have given 3rd parties the entire launch window. One potential 3DS game that is a "true" 3DS game, is Steel Diver, but that never got much attention. There is more in the pipeline, and if Nintendo wants to sell the 3DS, they need original titles. 

 

Now about the ad, it was good, but unorthodox, given Nintendo's marketing schemes in the past. They should have launched with ads like these if they wanted to change consumer perception right out of the gate. I would like to see more ads like this, but with a Nintendo feel. 



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d21lewis on 09 August 2011
RolStoppable said:
Why do they even bother to show MGS3? That game is going to get canceled for sure.


Notice how the announcer said "Some you'd expect" and when they cut to MGS3, he said "and some you might not..". 



megaman79 on 09 August 2011

FINALLY!

This marketing is pretty straight to the point, and thats a really good thing when you're dealing with a company used to being way more obscure.

This is all positive, and its a sign that the marketing guy is going to really try and evolve the company.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

SnesTea on 09 August 2011
d21lewis said:
Note to self: Do not, under any circumstances, engage Roland in a Nintendo debate. His power level is too high.

It's OVER 9000!



Heavenly_King on 09 August 2011

You know you did something wrong when you have to make all that stuff to make sure people knows that it is a different product.



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NYANKS on 09 August 2011
Antabus said:
Lulz, desperate. :D

I feel like this about sums it up.  It might work, but it smacks of desperation.  It seems like they're having troubling marketing this thing.  You realllly shouldn't have to explain that you made a new console. It's like telling a bad joke and then having to explain to people that it's supposed to be funny.