| Soundwave said: To be honest though the 3DS doesn't have impressive looking graphics by modern standards, I don't think you want to "show the games" too much as the gameplay is what sets those games apart. The infomercial style of the commercial is a bit cheesy though I agree. As for 3D ... they're kinda married to it with the 3DS, they don't have much of a choice but to push that angle as its what makes the system unique. |
Of course they have a choice. They can choose to have a bunch of people talking about the 3D for 30 seconds while barely mentioning the game itself. They can choose to not mention the 3D at all. They can choose to mention it once, briefly.
This isn't rocket science. Compare that commercial for Majora's Mask 3D to this one for Ocarina of Time 3D. That's from 4 years ago! They weren't afraid to show the game. They weren't overloading the viewer with information from 6 different sources. Nobody says "3D" even once, but they're smart enough to realize that "3D" is a part of the names of both the system and the game they're advertising, and is therefore already plastered all over the advertisement.
Here's another commercial for Ocarina 3D. This time they used CGI to make the game look much prettier than it is. They're clearly aiming for the nostalgia bone here, as they show a few of the most instantly recognizable moments from Ocarina of Time. Focusing more strongly on the game itself than in the Williams commercial even though they're not even showing the real game. At the end of the commercial they give a quick, "Now in 3D, no glasses required," and that's it.
They could have easily done something very similar to these commercials for Majora's Mask and Monster Hunter, and I think it would have been much more effective than what they did instead.
Now look what you've done, you made me bring up Robin Williams and make everyone sad.
