Nintendo Japanese Ads -- Attractive Models; NOA Ads -- Kiddie R' Us

[Mr Khan]

Soundwave said:

Troll_Whisperer said:
The Japanese ad is no better, she's just making "cute" sounds and talking about how cute everything is.

It doesn't have to do much to be better than the NOA ad, the NOA spot is that terrible. But worse than than that the image the NOA marketing pushes is horrible, Nintendo is for kids, blah, blah, blah. At least in Japan they find it OK to market Nintendo games to adults, not sure why NOA is so deathly afraid of doing the same. 

In my 20 years of following Nintendo, their current marketing agency is the worst. Not even the GameCube era was this bad. At least the "clean is better than dirty" Sunshine spot was trying to be funny. 

It's just bland, is the issue. It's good that a lot of their ads focus on gameplay (comparing to a lot of PS ads which focus on whatever the gimmick of the ad is and don't show enough of the game), but they've got to have a hook in there of some kind.

They should take notes from Sega's Sonic Lost World commercial. That seems to strike a good balance.