| naruball said: Don't know much about the US and celebrities affecting sales, but I remember that in the UK there was a time when wiiparty wasn't very successful but then a commercial for it aired with a popular UK band (think they're called JLS) and sales seriously picked up. Yes, a game you had to pay over 30 quid for. And I don't get the whole "you can't judge x company from your armchair". Why not exactly? Just because Ninty is a powerful company, doesn't mean that they always make the right choices. Same with MS and xbone or Sony and ps3. I feel that the ones running the company to the ground are the people who defend anything the company does and give them the wrong message. I think fans should be vocal in a respectful way so that the company can know what they need to at least consider changing. |
The Wii was extremely highly saturated in the casual market at that point, and quite obviously the Wii U isn't in the same position. With Wii U advertisement, you have to do a lot more than simply convince someone to buy a game. First you need to convince them to buy the Wii U to replace their Wii, then you need to convince them to buy the game. Also, do you have a link for that? I'd quite like to read it if you do, as I am unable to find one.
Anyways, its pretty obvious why marketing something that costs 0$ is different than something that costs $60 (+300$ including the console). Also, theres no need to pull any fanboy stuff in here. I don't think anyone would say that Nintendos marketing has been anywhere close to amazing, but quite frankly, Soundwave is making some pretty ridiculous and badly supported arguments (and ignoring some counter argument, like the one in my earlier post)...
| radha said: Nintendo does not care about marker share or their fans, they only care about making profit for their share holders. |
its funny you say that, because Nintendo has been blatantly ignoring their share holders for years...
