Cobra_ said:
Zlejedi said:
zuvuyeay said:
i was thinking that the Wii would be a good emerging market console when its alot cheaper,motion controls,perfect really
but you don't think they have the infrastructure to sell it everywhere,why not?
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What do you mean by why?
It's not hypothesis it's fact.
Nintendo completly ignores emerging markets.
In Poland which have potential to sell 500k PS2 consoles (and which still sell to this day and is one of more popular gifts for children) Nintendo doesn't even have a single guy responsible for promoting their machines.
Their idea of "marketing" in 2008 was sending google autotranslated press notes to gaming portals but even that stopped as people were making fun of them (no suprises here for anyone who ever used auto translator knows the end "quality").
Also their price is emerginging markets is far from competitive. Why would average consumer bother with 800-900 pln Wii when he can get well known Playstation 2 for 400 with cheap games and even special Poland oriented versions of Singstar or PS3 for 1100-1400 which comes with all those fully translated PS3 hits (including voice acting done by recognizable actors).
And then thare's also Microsoft offering another alternative with plenty of presence in media and easily pirated console (which is huge thing in such places)
Add to that demographic which is mainly retired pc gamers or pc gamers looking to get another platform and you have receipt for disaster.
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Well, I guess we are lucky to have a good Nintendo distributor in Czech Republic. There is no Nintendo affiliate here, but another company has exclusive rights for Czech Rep.
It's true that the situation is not as good as with Playstation though - Sony Czech is marketing their consoles better as they have more money to spend. Still, there was a (noticeable if you were trying  ) TV campaign for Wii Fit featuring a local well-known fitness guy, they have Wii and DS promotions in big media - not just gaming magazines - from time to time, etc.
I have no idea why something like that couldn't work just as well in Poland which is a much bigger market.
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I guess our local distributor is content with small amount of Wii selling without any of his efforts so he doesn't try. And it's also similar for DS (altrough still DS situation is much better). We might be one of extremly few countries where psp is more popular :)
