OMFG LOL!!

The first one, can barely be called a family add. Sure, they look slicker in all ways but are (far) less informative then Nintendo's ads, which are pretty much to the point.

Actually for a home console in Japan, it is selling decently over the past few weeks, better then you'd expect given the lack of note worthy games aside from a DQ MMO no one seemed to want and a Wario mini game collection.

But seriously, Nintendo seems to have upper management problems. Don't know if it is Miyamoto's growing influence on more then just game design or some slow executive that thinks the casual market is still going to be Nintendo's bread and butter with a weaker system when it seems like some of the guys within game development and production are trying to push for more 'traditional' titles with the unfortunate side effect of those games never getting advertisements or legit media pushes. They really are going to have to learn that while producing some family aimed ads are fine, focusing all media on the 'family togetherness' isn't going to help much, especially in the Western world where economically families are struggling to get by let alone spend time together.

Mr. Haskins: "I think for me it's how much better the graphics are."

Oh Mr. Haskins, you cheeky monkey, shut your pie hole. Yeh, these are terrible. I always think that an over-the-top, attention grabbing, even if just superficial commercial works much better than these "true accounts" type of commercials.

Lucky You!

Oh my.. this is horrendous..