kitler53 said:
MrT-Tar said:
kitler53 said:
okay, so here's the thing about merchandising. look at the list of merchandise you mentioned (game or movie related) and then look at who would be buying that kind of stuff. do you see where i'm going with this yet? no, let me help you out. ..kids buy franchised merchandise and therefore you have to be making ... **banhammered** |
Well, whenever I'm in London I go to a shop called Tokyo Toys that sells anime and manga merchandise, such as wall scrolls, cosplay accessories, bags and clothes. The shop also sells some limited gaming merchandise (for example I've bought Castlevania and Paper Mario key rings and a Final Fantasy VII wall scroll). Let me put it this way, the people in there (myself included) aren't exactly what one would classify as 'kids'.
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while merchandise, i don't think a specialty shops meet the point of the OP when he specifically bring up walmart. he simply brought up that movies have loads of merchandising while i gaming it is mostly just nintendo and asked why more video games don't merchandize more. I simply wanted to point out that movies don't tend to merchandise everything but rather a select demographic of movies lend themselves to merchandising (which is largely targeted at children).
top 10 movies from last week (gross):
how many of these actualy have merchandising? Transformers, Car 2, Green Lantern.
many of nintendo's IPs lend themselves well to merchandising. i think other game companies could merchandise more but things like MW/GTA just don't merchandise well. T-shirts is about it for possibilities.
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Kids buy merchandise (or rather whine until their parents buy it for them) to use, be it through playing with the toys or whatever. However, there's another market out there of people who buy merchandise, wrap it up in a plastic bubble never to be touched and then hope for a profit 20 years later.
I think that market would go nuts for more video game related tat. You only need to look at those people crazy enough to spend $100 on special editions because there's some 'real' night vision goggles or whatever included...
