sundin13 said:
Soundwave said:
Sony/MS don't need to counteract smartphone marketing as much though because it doesn't cut into their demographics. A COD or Destiny player might play Clash of Clans sure, but not at the expense of their hardcore gaming fix on the PS4/X1.
Nintendo? Doesn't have that luxury.
And there's nothing stopping Nintendo from affording Kate Upton, in fact I suggested hiring someone like her a while ago, but lo and behold that smartphone game that no one knew about like two weeks ago is now trending big time because of that TV spot.
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I don't think you understand that throwing money at something blindly just doesn't work in console gaming advertisement...Who is to say that Nintendo buying an ad with Kate Upton would increase sales enough to pay for itself (even moreso when that ad is a super bowl ad)? Console games don't sell the same way as mobile games do...the audience is skewed much more strongly towards people who don't need tv spots then the mobile market
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I think we're approaching the point where a group of monkeys would be able to come up with the better marketing strategy than the one Nintendo currently has.
Like I said even when they do advertise, their commercials are lame. They're like 90s breakfast cereal commercials in tone/style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE4WUEVrkRI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSmCv7hrPy4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=153G429U1xU
Smartphone commercials are hip/cool and mainstream, Nintendo's ads ... you could throw in Toucan Sam or Tony the Tiger and no one would see it as out of place.
