First Wii U ad (US)!

[DaRev]

RolStoppable said:

DaRev said:

I disagree. What they needed to show, which they did, is how the Wii U separates itself and how different it is from every other gaming console out there, including the Wii. Games are somewhat irrelivant at this point, as gamers like me and you would already know what the Wii U is about, so there is no convincing us one way or another - for example there is nothing Ninty can show in a commercial now that would change my mind about the Wii U. But people who don't know what Wii U is, could care less or know the difference between the games being shown in a short commercial - whether, they showed Zombie U, Pikmin or Nintendo Land, etc, probably wouldn't make a difference to such would-be gamers. 

It's all about the games when a new system comes out. The simplest way to get someone who doesn't follow gaming news interested in buying a console is to show off cool games. The more games, the better. This will make these people go out of their way and look up the product on the internet or talk with their friends about it.

What you propose is what the first 3DS commercials were about. Nintendo emphasized the stereoscopic 3D without glasses and showed people going "ah" and "oh" while looking at a 3DS. They didn't show any games at all. The 3DS launch period was anything but good.

People don't buy video game systems for the hardware, they buy them for the games.

I agree that its all about the games, but you connot understate the harware. For example with the Wii, what they emphasised was the hardware, and its the difference in the hardware, not the games, that separated the Wii from the 360 and the PS3. Whether the Wii had Modern Warfare or Zelda didn't really matter, what mattered most was how the hardware performed and gave players a NEW way the play the same old games.

This NEW way the play the same old games, like Mario, Rayman, etc, is what is important. So you don't show just games to sell a system like the Wii or the Wii U. Yes, just showing the games could work for powerhouses like the PS3, or PS4 when it comes, but not the Wii or Wii U.

People overreacted with regards the 3DS launch (and the comparative launch of the Vita proved this). And it wasn't games that turned around the sales for the 3DS, as the 3DS had games, but it was the price drop that boosted its sales.

"People don't buy video game systems for the hardware, they buy them for the games." ha ha tell the PS power hungry fanboys that. I'm buying my Wii U for a new HARDWARE interface for playing games not because it has BLOPS 2.