Why do you think Captain Rainbow bombed?

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Soriku said:

trestres said:
@Soriku: God forbid Nintendo tries out something different. They should just focus on shooters then. Everything else is "quirky", but Wii Fit, Wii Play arent? When things favour someones arguement I can see theres so much spin, its not even funny. Look at Fate/Tiger on the PSP... Its a porn game, yet it sold 5 times better than Captain Rainbow. Wasnt Smash Bros quirky also? Arent Starfy, Mother, Kirby and a thousand other franchises quirky also?

They only give the titles that will sell well advertising, advertising for this game doesn't make much sense because it wouldn't have sold well regardless because...it's way too weird, and targets some foreign audience.

That's nonsense.

'They only give the titles that will sell well advertising'.

They will try and push whatever they want.  I'd love to see Nintendo's advertising costs for Everyone's General Knowledge Training TV - Wii in Japan.  They pushed it and pushed it, for weeks after the launch.  The TV advertising spend must have been many, many times higher than the cost to develop the software itself.

They totally thought it was going to be the next Brain Training phenomenon, and do crazy number on the Wii and it's new found audience, but ultimately sales were pretty poor, especially considering how much it was pushed.

Wario Land Shake has had a lot of TV advertising too...