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Soundwave on 13 May 2016
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bigtakilla said:
Soundwave said:

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. 

People have lost interest because their products this generation (aside from a certain number of games, and Nintendo always has brilliant games) simply haven't been very good. You can't generate hype for something that doesn't excite the consumer in the first place.

But even with Deadpool like six months prior to release, no one was talking about it. People started talking about it after the reviews started to come out and the pre-launch hype started to build in a short amount of time.

If you have an exciting product, people will come. If you don't, they won't. Where Nintendo fans I think sometimes lose the forest from the trees is they assume that Mario + Zelda + Metroid = OMG everyone will buy this, when that isn't really (as) impressive to everyone especially when the sales pitch is "you can play these 5 legendary franchises, but in return it means you have basically none of the third party IP you want". People just don't like limited entertainment ecosystems in general.

This is why Windows Phone while subjectively better than iOS and Android in many ways just doesn't gain traction -- it does have all the apps and people don't want to get stuck with the "wrong phone".