| osed125 said: Am I the only one who truly believes youtube doesn't affect sales that much? or if at all? The only game I can think of that truly became popular thanks to youtube was Minecraft. I would like to see some hard evidence that Youtube really increases a game's sales by a significant margin (not including 'official' trailers and such, talking about Lets Play, Reviews, etc etc). Until someone can show me some real data, I will still believe that this 'free advertisement' on Youtube is pure crap made by gamers on the internet (which are the people who watch game youtubers in the first place). |
Marketing isn't a "hard evidence" kinda business. They can only guess at the effects. The general premise is the more positive exposure the better. And YouTube brings lots of potential for positive exposure. Especially with reviewers. But this is beside the point. Nintendo is still behaving in an unethical way. Commentary, news coverage, critique, and parody are all explicitly covered under the Fair Use doctrine, meaning Nintendo has no right to flag such content, which they have. Now it is partly YouTube's fault for having the claim system set up in this way, but that doesn't excuse Nintendo.
