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S.T.A.G.E. on 08 May 2012
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Mazty said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Mazty said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Mazty said:
A gross misunderstanding of the Nintendo franchise. Mario is not popular because of a cartoon but because of his roots and Nintendo fanboys. Nintendo have the most die hard supporters and they will buy whatever spiel Nintendo shovel out because it has the Nintendo label of approval on it. This is an impenetrable and unsustainable market that should be ignored, not imitated. Once these guys grow up and leave Nintendo behind them, Nintendo will not have a new audience as their games were focused on satisfying fan's needs for franchise titles, which to the outsider are a steaming pile of dated garbage. Therefore Nintendo are not a sustainable market, and that is not a position any company with sense wants to emulate.

I never stated Nintendo gained major support because of it. I said in the 80's and 90's which is when the franchise was amazingly huge and the shows gained great ratings on saturday morning cartoons. Of course I never saw the mario or zelda show myself but I remember Sonic, Street Fighter and short lived Mortal Kombat saturday morning cartoons in the 90's. It helped endear children to the product and when they hear a themesong or catch phrase it becomes party of the English language so to speak. I can't speak for the rest of the world, only America. Anyway, Super Mario games were mostly bundled with Nintendo so people gained their first look at Mario by chance just as any non-gamer can recollect duck hunt if they are old enough. Mario stuck with people because Nintendo kept it fresh in the mind of gamers and casuals alike.

This is a chicken and egg argument with less mystery; we know the games spawned the cartoons, not viceversa. In terms of marketting the cartoons would be cashing in on the games, not acting as advertising; the games were already popular enough to spawn cartoons. 


Question. Where are you from? Because in America Saturday morning cartoons lead to record breaking sales of Toys and videogames alike. 

You got figures to back that up? More specifically, you got figures to back up the idea that game cartoons helped increase game sales? The only game which certainly had a postitive effect from the cartoon was pokemon, but the cartoon came before the game, not the other way around.


Where are you from? Again.