Do you think Nintendo's holding off of officially revealing NX ultimately helpful or hurtful to Nintendo?

[bigtakilla]

Soundwave said:

bigtakilla said:

But is their such a thing as something a lot of people not knowing about gaining a lot better hype and momentum over a period of time? Yes. This happens to movies all the time. Did you know the original Halloween was an absolute flop when it first hit theaters. No one was seeing it, but with word of mouth over a period of time it has become the highest grossing independant films of all time (maybe not anymore, but we are talking about 30 years and a growing movie audience, but it was for a LONG time). 

The 1970s is a different period and it's not even like Halloween was some huge budget tent pole film to begin with.

We have the internet now, social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and hundreds of TV channels, information can consumed much more rapidly, you really only need a few months of real hype for anything and word of mouth spreads much faster these days.

Case in point ... a movie like Deadpool which is a really a C-tier Marvel franchise that most of the general public had no knowledge of a huge blockbuster with minimal pre-release hype.

If you have a great product that gets people excited the word will spread quickly. And quite frankly it's the same with most modern electronics, they're only unveiled usually a few months prior to launch.

 

Deadpool was also riding the wave of successful Marvel movies and got MASSIVE praise by critics and word of mouth. Not the case at all with Nintendo consoles. They are looking at one complete failure and one console people lost interest in.