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Soundwave on 15 July 2013

Metroid: Other M had a cool TV spot, it's too bad the game disappointed a lot of people (I actually didn't mind it too much):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12-fbN0uWPo

But I think NOA since about 2011 has started to market more towards kids as the primary audience. I think after the 3DS launch didn't go as planned they shifted to more kid-centric marketing.



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Stefan.De.Machtige on 15 July 2013
archbrix said:
morenoingrato said:
It was slightly cool.

Had they used an older actress instead of the kid, and another narrator, it would have been much better.

I agree. The CGI is beautiful and the Pikmin and their sounds are represented faithfully; I just hate the kid and the narrator.

The Japanese commercials are much better, and no, not just because there's a cute girl in them, lol.

But hey, the NA ad could've been much worse - at least it wasn't this crap:

 

That P2 commercial is awful. The one in the OP is briljant compared to that.



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zorg1000 on 15 July 2013

I have no problem with it, I could see this getting some attention on kids networks, which isnt a bad thing, it makes sense to try making Wii U the must have christmas item.



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Mensrea on 15 July 2013

Eh, I think that Nintendo has to market to children. Gamers are going to know what it is and whether or not they are going to buy it without advertising. Alot of kids probably don't even know what pikmin is. The commercial was fine.




Soundwave on 15 July 2013
Mensrea said:
Eh, I think that Nintendo has to market to children. Gamers are going to know what it is and whether or not they are going to buy it without advertising. Alot of kids probably don't even know what pikmin is. The commercial was fine.


Plus I think they may feel they can't really compete for adults as Sony/MS oversaturate that crowd with marketing.

Aiming for kids makes some sense I guess.

The danger in it is it generally tends to turn off the teenager/adult demographic entirely as they certainly do not want products primarily marketed to kids, and sometimes even kids don't like it, as they want products marketed to teenagers/adults.



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osed125 on 15 July 2013
Maris said:
Did we just return to the 90s? What the hell is NoA doing with these ads lately?

Well it's a lot better than the Wii U ads at least.



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Otakumegane on 15 July 2013
Stefan.De.Machtige said:
archbrix said:
morenoingrato said:
It was slightly cool.

Had they used an older actress instead of the kid, and another narrator, it would have been much better.

I agree. The CGI is beautiful and the Pikmin and their sounds are represented faithfully; I just hate the kid and the narrator.

The Japanese commercials are much better, and no, not just because there's a cute girl in them, lol.

But hey, the NA ad could've been much worse - at least it wasn't this crap:

 

That P2 commercial is awful. The one in the OP is briljant compared to that.

Are you kidding? That commercial was hilarious! (Though the target audience was wrong)



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Lonely_Dolphin on 15 July 2013
Mensrea said:
Eh, I think that Nintendo has to market to children. Gamers are going to know what it is and whether or not they are going to buy it without advertising. Alot of kids probably don't even know what pikmin is. The commercial was fine.



Not all adults are gamers though, atleast not the type to look up and follow games online like we here do.

PullusPardus on 15 July 2013

WHERE..... WHERE IS THE DUBSTEP?! 

this game'z fo' homoz bro.

/joking.



Conegamer on 15 July 2013

I watched it with no sound...and thought it was pretty good. It gets the point across!



 

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