Nuvendil said:
And marketing is crucial to selling either. Given Nintendo's marketing for the first two and a half years either reached almost no one or made their product look about as appealing as oily rags look to people who are on fire, it's a miracle their console has sold the current numbers. And given their resistance to bundling hits at or near launch, refusal to lower prices even as the market screams at them to do so, their insistence on only marketing games that already have sold enough with previous entries to not need it, I would say their games are doing pretty dang well. I'm not saying Nintendo doesn't need to do more of certain things (Xenoblade needs FAR more marketing in the future, there needs to be a new Metroid with FAR more marketing, need to more aggressively push for certain franchises to be on their consoles (no true console MonHunsince 3 is a ridiculous missed opportunity) etc etc), but the marketing disasters of this gen and late last gen by Nintendo cannot be overstated in terms of their impact. |
^This
Well said.
