First Wii U ad (US)!

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thetonestarr said:

osed125 said:

I thought it was ok...but it doesn't show the "hardcore" market at all. All the games are Sing, NintendoLand, Lego and Mario. There are probably other ads coming along.

That's because most of the hardcores know it's new and know what it can do. Nintendo wants to win over the casual markets first and make it clear to them that it's a new system with new capabilities.

What they need to do is send a few hundred to Oprah and get her to give them away to her audience one day. That honestly is probably the #1 best thing that they can do to get the nationwide casual audience informed and interested.

Oprah isn't on the air anymore, lol. Maybe Ellen. 

The Wii spots from 2006 were much more impressive and gave the impression of something very different and important was happening, and  that's *exciting*! Lets get people excited not just run down a checklist of what a product is, that's not good marketing. At least this isn't as egregiously bad at that as the Wii U UK advert was which bordered on a high budget informercial. 

Wii ads from 2006:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP-THj03Zk4

This Wii U spot just feels like something someone slapped together before their lunch break. It doesn't feel sophisticated or hip like the Wii spots from 2006 had at least a tinge of.