bigtakilla said:
We have discussed several times whether or not the product NEEDS to be revealed more than 6+ months before release, with people being on both sides. I personally believe that it would only benefit them by revealing it earlier and having more time for the hype to steamroll and if the product is actually good interest in the product would not fall off, but that is only a part of what this post is about.
What this is about is do you think it is a good idea to have the Nintendo brand basically stagnate for 2 years, or should they just announce the NX and some games already? When should they have announced it? How should this year actually have looked as far as marketing for Nintendo?
Keep in mind in this discussion I only want to look at how you here see their marketing. If we could avoid things like "they should have released NX winter of this year" out of here, that would be fantastic. I just want to know if you think Nintendo are being smart in their marketing, or is it technically worse than the Wii U at this point.
Me personally:
I think it's a terrible idea for Nintendo to have their brand stagnate for two years. No one is going to be really looking at the WIi U version of Zelda U when they will most likely be more interested in what the NX version looks like.
They should have officially shown it, had it's name out at least by early June, had all E3 to destroy the competition with the shear amount of 1st party games they got coming to it (I mean, we haven't got a big budget game since 2014), throw in some third party, and just have E3 be this big blowout of TONS of titles easing peoples minds of how little their was on the WIi U.
I personally also think the stagnation is only hurting Nintendo. I don't think skipping E3 is doing them any favors, and in fact think it will overall hurt them.
I was hoping for a kind of "new" Nintendo mentality with the NX, but it looks like that won't happen.
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