Monster Hunter Tri Western campaign begins

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

alfredofroylan said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

When did Nintendo ads suddenly become...negative? Did Nintendo have to do a 180 and start making fun of popular shows for attention? I donno....I'm sure this will increase the sales for the games somewhat, but you catch for flies with honey.

Frankly speaking, these commercials will most likely only appeal to certain people. And that's NOT the effect you want to go for.

As a side note: I hope the fact that this game is getting commercials and things is a good sign that Dragon Quest IX will as well.

Yeah because these kind of ads doesn't work right?

How is that commercial negative?  Its not trying to poke fun at something popular to gain attention.  In fact, its immitating a well known used car dealer from outside of LA in California while showing off gameplay of the game.  Heck, that same guy was even parodied in various movies, such as 'The Muppet Movie'.  In other words, it was clever.  But you know what it wasn't?  It wasn't negative.

The other ad was just using footage from Dedliest Catch and trying to do the classic piggy back off its popularity, but by mocking it.  Which in effect, is pointless.  If they did a commercial like this one, say having the guy stuck on the boat trying to catch crabs and then say 'I'm tired of this, I'm going back to the hunting grounds' or something, then it would have been clever AND made the connection to the popular show.  Instead, they mocked the show (which will make many of the fans of that show angry) and it had an overall negative tone (which will turn off many more people).