What Can Nintendo Do To Appeal To The West?

[Nuvendil]

mii-gamer said:

Nuvendil said:

mii-gamer said:

Nothing japanese about two japanese men bowing in a japanese manner with japanese inspired music playing in the background. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p7uJp25BlE

Not at all japanese

Wow, I forgot about that infomercial.  Too bad that attitude and diverse image didn't last long in their marketing material.  Wii could have been both a financial success and helped build a stronger Nintendo and Wii brand.  But alas, instead we entered the Wii U with...this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dbGJieRaH0 and worse...this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsbeQeiwW9o *shudders*.  Seriously, what the heck happened?

Whoever Nintendo has hired to manage their marketing needs to go. The marketing during the early wii years was brilliant. Nowadays, its abysmal at best.

I think it is one of two things (or a combination):  1) their western marketing guys just suck at their jobs.  Or 2) everything gets filtered through Japan and someone there sucks at their job/doesn't understand the west at all.  What's baffling though is that Nintendo does good with marketing pressence in Japan; I mean, they are everywhere over there.  But hey, things are improving.  The latest Smash ad (not the live action one), the Bayonetta 2 ad, and the Hyrule Warriors ads were a very big step up from the previous ones.  What's lacking are console commercials.