Nintendo (through the summer) has been doing insane with commercial advertising of the Wii U and 3DS systems, thanks to the great E3 presentation, keeping up to dates with Directs, and trying to advertise on YouTube more. It almost looked like Nintendo could get a more mature and older audience, but I think you should take a look at these three commercials before continuing reading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn3FrNb1X-E&list=UUGIY_O-8vW4rfX98KlMkvRg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rpQKLh-KSE&list=UUGIY_O-8vW4rfX98KlMkvRg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3c_JDDp99k&list=UUGIY_O-8vW4rfX98KlMkvRg

Those were probably the worst 3 commercials they have put up recently. I am a mardcore Nintendo fanboy, I'll admit to that, but even I cringe at these ads. They are obviously trying to appeal to a casual young market AGAIN, which I don't think Is wrong, but you need that older audience. To be fair though, they have made some good casual games lately for the Wii U like Wii Sports Club, the problem is, they don't advertise THOSE games at all. They make their first priority games like Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, etc, look childish enough that a third grader would agree he would be too old for that. 

Now, Nintendo has done well will advertising up until now, as I said. They also have had decent commercials for Smash Bros lately, so WHY NOT MAKE MORE LIKE THOSE COMMERCIALS?! It's actually astonishing, those ads showed off gameplay, reasons to buy it, and it appealed to an older audience, but oh my lord they are making such juvenile commercials it is actually kind of embarresing. 

I am sick of Nintendo trying to keep a casual market. It's not working at all, and It is putting a dreadful stereotype on Nintendo fans. I don't want people to think that anybody carrying a 3ds in public may seem like a man-child damn it! Nintendo PLEASE fix your strategy, do you really want this, really?

Anyway, just for fun, let's all remember that wii u ad from last year, which is the worst Nintendo commercial I've EVER seen. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn2nqR3f7JM&feature=youtu.be

At least they are advertising, thats more than what they did during the wiiU launch and most of 2013. But yea, they could be better but they could also be worse

Hardcore games don't buy games because of ads, they buy them because of good reviews, loyalty to de franchise... An ad can inform hardcores that a game exists, but not sell it to them. Casuals are more inclined to buy games thanks to ads.

Also, the ads are meh, but they could be worse.

Anything is an improvement over last year's cheesy, perfect family commercial.

I want Nintendo's creepy as hell commercials back like the "Touching Is Good" one. Those were way better!

yea i agree those are really bad.

None of them were awful, they just werent particularly good.
At least they advertised the products unlinke certain ads from them and their competitors in the past.

As long as they don't air on more "adult :P" channels, it will be fine .

I actually thought the first one was great.

But I will admit the Smash Bros commercial is pretty bad.

I love my family Nintendo, I don't like looking at other families though Nintendo. Just do what everyone else is doing: Show gameplay only and then say get "game" on "console". Example that I HATE "get call of duty Advanced Warfare on Xbox One". I hate that commercial but it worked. Nintendo needs to go back to advertising their IP. I mean, who could forget Smash 64's commercial? Just classic! Now we have cheesy dads and kids playing games. Pfft, give me a break Nintendo. A kit kat bar or something, anything but this!