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Well, considering how much funding Nintendo is putting into wiiU games, I think they are trying to make it work still or else it would be like what Sony is doing with the vita and have no support in terms of making games for it

With that being said, I think their marketing team died with the wii... The wii had some of the best commercials ever but after that, bam, dead



                  

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Maybe, they don't see the point in advertising a sinking ship. They could just be incompetent with marketing in this gen too though.



Does traditional ads work anymore? Is it not all up to almighty internet hype to decide what is a success and what is going to fail? I myself does not react on ads. If at all it is with hatred and with promising myself not to buy from those that interrupt my media consumption.



I read a multitude of sites, completely ignoring the ads at the top, on the sides and inbetween texts. If I want to buy something I mostly get the urges from comunicating with people. When deciding what to do of my free time and available money I look up stores, agencies, companies and compare prices. A travel to the sun takes time and money from other things like games.



OT.
Are there more comercials for the 3DS in USA and if so is this the reason for its success?

 

Also: in the USA who has more ads:PS4 or XOne?  

 

And by ads I guess we are talking TV ads? Who between 15 and 30 watches TV. Thats for old folks and families with small children.



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You cant advertise a system that does nit have new games coming out within the next month or two unless you're sony or Microsoft where yku show the same commercial over and over again.

This is not an excuse though. Ninty, make the system sound mature. Make a commercial of people playing Super Mario 3D World or Dk then they switch to CoD Ghosts and then show two people playing Ssb4 and MK8 online to show online capibilities. Show scenes from X gameplay to entice rpg fans. Finish the commercial off with the list of games coming to Wii U. (Mario Kart 8 SSB4 Zelda U SMTxFE X Hyrule Warriors Bayonetta 2 and others) along with the current releases to show the systems catalog and build hype for later games.

Do whatever it takes Ninty. IDC if you have to pay Sony 200 million dollars for an advertising campaign. Do IT!



Seriously though, Nintendo's marketing sucks. With games like Mario Kart 8 and Smash Bros. they should be marketing the shit out of these games. The Wii U needs it.



They are completely and utterly ashamed. I'm surprised they still put their name on the Wii U.

Poor Nintendo.



They did it, but seems like they give up now lol, the only thing that left is do their best and expect to outsell Gamecube. I think is pretty likely.



NintendoPie said:
They are completely and utterly ashamed. I'm surprised they still put their name on the Wii U.

Poor Nintendo.

If they wouldn't put their name would sell even worse :P