Gamespot Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise Review - 8.5

[mysticD]

matt247 said:

mysticD said:
I hope it will sell well but from the look at it , MS send it to die just like the first time. There is no promotion , most didn't even know it's out today. They should have been doing more advertisement .. give out those cards, may be bundle special camera edition for $49.99 with extra cards.... etc.

But nope, it just come out on the day after Labor Day and most kids are back in school.

Sometimes I really wonder about Microsoft marketing team.

All marketing probably going to go to Gear of Wars 2 , the game that's going to sell millions anyway. They talk that they want the casual but they are doing nothing to get into the market beside token releases here and there.

 

there is a lot of advertisements online for viva pinata. Also there is gonna be a treasure hunt on xbox.com on friday. I assume they'll have commercials during the kids show. Advertisements are handled by an agency that Microsoft hires, so it's in their hands.

I sure hope so.  May be they are hoping for good words of mouth and the game will pick up steam when holiday season come and they have thing like avatar , $199 arcade, motion controller (oh wait, scratch that) in place.

I think they could do more, generate some pre-order excitiment with those Pinata Cards, exclusive pinata for pre-ordering.  If they want to get the mass excited they need to at least get their core fans excited.