Demotruk said:
Oh please, Wii games are supposed to sell with minimum or crappy advertising? Ever notice anything that all the big Nintendo games have in common? Nintendo advertises them, they do it a lot and they do it well.
Secondly, what does NMH have to do with Red Steel 2? Red Steel 2 isn't edgy at all, it's a teens rated sword fighting game. Something a hell of a lot of people would want. Which is why even without advertising the game will do well in the long run, but not promoting the game is such a waste of potential. |
Nintendo tends to spend more on developing each title they release than any other publisher on the platform. Same goes for their marketing.
It goes without saying that heavily advertising their own games is in their best interest as they're not just advertising their games; they're advertising their console/platform.
From what I can remember, most of the advertising for the original Red Steel didn't come from Ubisoft, it came from Nintendo in the form of commercials advertising the console iteself.
About the only reason why Nintendo would do the same again would be in the interest of marketing Motion Plus, which they pretty much stopped doing.
As for Ubisoft, one can only guess that more of the budget went into development of the game itself. Why complain about that? It's Ubisoft that has something to lose; they financed the game. The only thing the complaining Wii owners might lose is Red Steel 3, which judging by the rate of Red Steel 2 sales, not many of those owners would have bought anyway.
