Top Ten List suggestion: Marketing Blunders in Gaming

[LordTheNightKnight]

MrT-Tar said:

oniyide said:

#2 i agree at some pointa but there are a few games on the HD consoles that I saw no ads for and actual sold decent or at least better than the Wii core games.  Crackdown 2, Heavy Rain, LBP Etc. Conduit had more ads than any Wii game I ever saw and it still sucked sales wise

#1 those ads were terrible I mean they were bad, crying baby??? WTF was that.

I haven't seen any ads for Crackdown 2, but here in the U.K Heavy Rain and LBP were really heavily advertised.  I didn't see any ads for the Conduit, but most 3rd party wii games get virtually no marketing on TV unless Nintendo step in to help (like Monster Hunter 3).  I don't remember any ads for Tatsunoko vs Capcom, Madworld, Klonoa, Zack & Wiki, Deadly Creatures, Little King's Story, etc.  Maybe because Wii games cost less to produce, publishers are less likely to heavily market?  Just compare Bayonnetta's marketing push to Madworld's, the only Madworld ads I saw were on IGN, on the other hand Bayonnetta had mega TV ads all the time.  Capcom even got Dark Void to sponsor a semi-high profile TV show on a major channel, I saw no Tatsunoko vs Capcom ads at all.

 

 

On topic, yes I think it's a very good idea for a top ten.  Maybe you could include Blur's adverts, IMO it wasn't thought through too well as it was aiming at people who like/play Mario Kart, despite the game not being released on consoles with Mario Kart on them.

These votes are you pick five in order, so just include that in your own top five.