And the weird thing is that they did a great job with promoting the Wii. I saw plenty of commercials on TV that really did a good job of showing what the appeal was, and they seemed far more proactive about proving the worth of the system and it's games.
How they went from that to people not even knowing the WiiU is a new console is a crippling, massive marketing failure that needs to be rectified ASAP. They need to be doing everything they can to push the system and all it's first-party content. I don't know if they have the will to do that, though.
Have some time to kill? Read my shitty games blog. http://www.pixlbit.com/blogs/586/gigantor21
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