The last Nintendo ad I seen was from the game Punch Out. Nintendo had good ads when they first came out but they really haven't done much in the last 2 years.

Same as Microsoft, I was tempted to buy a X360 from seeing the Gears of War ad, it was that good. But again I see very few ads, they have a lot more the Nintendo though.

And Sony has just been spitting out commercials left and right ever since the Slim came out and everyone of them is gold. Yesterday I must of seen half a dozen Sony commercials and most of them were on different channels. The ads they had when the PS3 was released were not that great and they did bad for advertising games, but over the last year or so they've made up for it.

Before Kevin Butler, Sony ads were kinda arrogant. Then they became funny. Now, after those cheap-shots at natal and wii, they've become arrogant again. So, even though I like the kevin butler ads, they don't deserve this.

Nintendo's ads are great. They're funny, they're nostalgic and most important, they're efficient - and that's what make them the best commercials. And the first wii ad (the vs fight with PS3) will be the most memorable in the gen - "fun"!


I don't know about microsoft's, just the gears of war ad - which while cool, it's nothing as good as people say. So I won't comment.

I'm constantly seeing Nintendo ads on TV, and I don't even watch much TV. Their Ant and Dec ads in the UK have been recognized as the most effective UK ads of 2009 in a study. Almost all their ads communicate the right messages about their games, they've been consistently excellent, but one recent US marketing campaign that's been good from Sony and the vgchartz Sony population have their excuse to make this poll turn out just like every other "Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo" poll on the forum.

sony 2009 2010

tie between sony and microsoft for me...microsoft knows what and how to advertise (halo 3 for ex.) while sony has got KB...and the nintendo ads are buns imo

Link to a good Nintendo ad please (other than the recent NSMBWii ones).

I haven't seen those.

Link please. :)

Nintendo if by far the most effective in the UK

In the UK, we don't get Kevin Butler, but we do get the Start something ads (which they have kind of copied for the Sony X10) which are reasonably good

Nintendo ads just piss me off now, but they are probably very effective

M$ have had good individual adverts, but they just lose because of their Bing averts, though it could have been worse... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9DBynJUCS4

Easily Sony.

although I do like the DSi XL commercial with the mushroom.