Mario Kart Wii commercials - What was Nintendo thinking?

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venepe said:
It is definitely not a "cool" commercial, like the PS3 octupus for example; but it does the job, I believe it would be effective (except to the 16-19 y/o wanna be gangsta' group, but they aren't gonna buy MK anyways, regardless of how "cool " the commercial is).

In my opinion the PS3 commercials, for example, appeal to the gamer crowd and are very cool but the thing is that such crowd probably does not need any convincing on whether to buy a PS3 or not, such crowd does not rely on cool commercials to buy a product or a game, most gamers outthere rely on reviews, gaming sites, and word of mouth. The commercials are mainly for the "casuals", the kids and parents.

Just my opinion, I could be wrong.

 QFT

Really most of you complaining about this commercial correct me if I'm wrong aren't most you "Hard-Core" gamers? Have not most of you known of the existance of this game for months? Have you not looked at reviews/visted gaming sites to gather info on this game long before this commercial aired? Heck some of you probably knew you're going to buy it the moment it was announced. As such this commercial isn't for you. It's for the people who didn't know it existed. You know the casual-newbie gamers and the reality is this ad does a good job informing the targeted audiuence. Casual-newbie gamers.