@Mr. T Tar  ok thats understandable

@lordtheknight  You've have never seen a Conduit commercial on TV at all??? or a magazine ad?? im sorry but I find that hard to believe. Magazines and TV shows dont vary that much from state to state

Yes

WII L I V E

That doesn't mean frquency is universal.

despite the low preorders, i think this moreso than any other wii game will expand through word off mouth if its good, as people may be holding off until they hear someone rave about it before dusting off the wii.

but it also depends how long they give it to achieve sales before they shoot their mouths off. Far too often developers say after the first week or two a, 'these are crap sales, no more wii development from us' kind of statement.

hopefully this will rocket at christmas, and then sell steadily through Q1 at least through word of mouth from those playing over the xmas holiday with their buddies.

i was alos hugely impressed that for the first time ever it was advertised on prime time on a main tv channel - during the x factor no less (averaged 13.9 million viewers according to a google search). bloody amazing to see, i was truely shocked!

surely thats gotta help...!

@lordtheknight  thats true, fair enough

Plus the content of ads is also important. The Monster Hunter Tri ads are funny, but they don't really give the feeling that you are on an epic quest (regardless of the exact nature of the quest). Compare that to Final Fantasy ads which make the games look like the most epic things ever, even though those are FMV only scenes (Why couldn't we do the rail grinding in Final Fantasy X? It's not as though it can't be done in a game. See Ratched & Clank.).

So I saw some Conduit ads after the fact, and they wouldn't have been that impressive even if the game were on the HD systems. They just looked generic.

@lordtheknight  its a FPS, I dont think there was so much they could show with that kind of game. IMHO I think the Conduit commericial is better than 007, just for the fact it acutally showed you what the game looked like. Im a gamer to the core so I dont need commericials or ads to tell me anything. Despite 007's meh ads im still checking it out

No, i am talking about the 360 and PS3 versions because they are so relavant to the topic at hand.

Well the content of TC was "meh", so the ads couldn't really do much by showing the gameplay.

Contrast Gears 1 ads, which didn't even need to show the gameplay, but those ads made it look like something epic, yet personal. Plus the ads stayed for weeks after release.

So it's still content, regarldess of what you show. The content of the ads has to make the game look good. So how the ads work depends on if general core gamers (not those that follow all gaming information they can) find the ads make them want the game, not whether the ad itself is good.

Well you do have a PS3 thingy as your tag so your sarcasm is slightly misplaced. Either way, from early reports of Goldeneye I hear it is missing a few crucial options such as private matches online!