DS Games Selling Badly: Or Why Install Base isn't the End All Be All

[Riachu]

hanafuda said:

Riachu said:
The reason why those games sold poorly was because they weren't marketed very well or weren't hyped very much

I'm getting a bit tired of people who don't know what they are talking about bouncing this type of nonsense around as some kind of legitimate explanation for why (always seems to be Nintendo) stuff doesn't sell well.

Weren't marketed well?

Really?

There was a demo of Inazuma Eleven included as part of the LTD edition of the second Professor Layton game in Japan, and if I'm not mistaken this demo version on DS cart was also GIVEN AWAY FREE at the Tokyo Game Show last year for those prepared to queue for it.

I've also seen ads for the game in Famitsu.

So just what wasn't marketed well then? Please give a detailed answer.

 

 

Inazuma Eleven didn't get that much advertising.  I have seen no TV ads for that game