the_dengle said:
Part 1 of Nintendo's 2011 E3 press conference, featuring the *amazing* Zelda orchestra opening, probably one of the greatest openings in the history of E3: 369,000 views. Each subsequent part had far fewer views, including the Wii U reveal. A 9-second clip of Iwata holding a banana in a Nintendo Direct: 117,000 views. More than the latter two parts of Nintendo's 2011 conference, and more than any clip of their 2012 conference I saw. Nintendo's "Wii U games" Direct from 3 months ago: 351,000 views. Nintendo's Pokémon Direct at the beginning of January: 521,000 views. The most recent Nintendo Direct from last week has 206,000 views... in America. Add 27,000 views in the UK; 18,000 views in France; 14,000 views in Germany; 13,000 views in Spain; about 8,000 views between Italy and the Netherlands; add that up for about 80,000 in Europe. So we're up to 286,000 before we apply views of the Japanese version, which I don't see on YouTube but which surely attracted some kind of audience in their home country. That's in one week. Nintendo Direct is bigger than you give it credit for being. |
300,000-500,000 views are small potatoes on Youtube for popular brands. The chances are extremely high that only the Nintendo faithful will be watching. This is what Sessler was talking about and also worries me as well. He called it something like an echo chamber because Nintendo is basically preaching to the choir.
