Well even software ads would draw people to want to buy a new system. Like how pissed my one friend was after I showed him the No More Heroes opening and he found out it was only for the Wii.

i was reading about no more in Nin Power----the bad pixel thing insted of blood is only in japan--that made me smile b/c i thought it was puled out from the whole game

Yep, that's right, but that's with the DS the same. I see ads now of Brain Training games with very important / intellectual people, like if its the only game on the DS available.

I like how Nintendo is spinning this too... instead of

"We're already selling out so advertising is pointless, lets focus on a system that we can keep in stock... sorta."

it's.

"It'd be unfair to make more people want our awesome product since you customers who we greatly value already are forced to wait outside of stores for our product, we give you our sincerest apologies that it's already so hard to get our awesome, awesome product."

... or they could do something REALLY crazy:
Advertise third party games! Why not show a compilation style trailer of well done third party games? Zack & Wiki, RE:UC, MoH:H2, Guitar Hero III, Star Wars Saga, MySims, DDR: Hottest Party, Trauma Center: New Blood, ...

THAT would show their appreciation of proper TP efforts.

Hopefully they will advertise the DS more. It should be selling much better in the US.

Or we can think about it in another way, and see this as an ad which says "we don't needs ads". Best ad ever.

Ive seen the new DS ad.


It is actually kind of cool.
Just shows random people playing in different locales.

As for them being "responsible".
Translation...."Hey guys! We are gonna have an awesome New Year's Party with all that cash we saved from advertising! Humvees for everyone!"

So basically they're saying "we're going to stop advertising, since we're going to sell out anyway"? I guess that means they haven't got the kinds of huge stockpiles many people thought they'd have after all.

(or maybe they're screwing Europe again, and diverting all their stock to the US..)

I remembered few weeks back, Reggie said that they won't pull off advertisement even though they cannot meet the demand.