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Soundwave on 02 August 2013
happydolphin said:
NoirSon said:
happydolphin said:
NoirSon said:

Technically, people are blaming Nintendo for being stupid in design choices. You want to coast on the Wii's fame, understanable but make the name something that the public at large can understand or the console look different from your most recent Wii redesign.

The Wii has had the most expensive accessories for a Nintendo system since the original NES, when the biggest new additiion is just the GamePad, with commercials and events highlighting that you can play it on Wii controllers and no games that weren't unique in terms of gameplay to the system aside from the under marketed ZombiU and NintendoLand does that really convey the message that this is a brand new console? I don't blame Target, this is a Nintendo problem, they seem to have made many mistakes when coming up with how to market their device while trying to recapture the previous Wii audiences and traditional gamers, they are now suffering for it needlessly because of their actions and decisions.

 

Target is a distributor. The person who made the mistake is the artist that made the flyer, not Nintendo's. It's simple.

The person who's job it is to put the proper objects on the flyer should know that the WiiU doesn't look like that if they're putting the WiiU listing.

I know it is Target's ad but I am saying Nintendo in designing the Wii U made this type of mistake too easy to occur.

This is the Wii's redesign

 

And this is the Wii U

Are you telling me that if you had to grab one off a shelf not really knowing anything about the differences of the Wii or Wii U and were given the GamePad and told to grab the Wii system, you'd be able tell that they were meant to be two completely different devices?  Heck, here is an image showing their dimensions compared to one another.

 

The Wii U is only slightly bigger then the Wii, so no I still put this on Nintendo for making a system that barely looks different from their last one, with a similar name and similar/identical controllers outside of the Gamepad.

The same exact thing can be said about the DS, DS Lite, DSi and 3DS. Yet I see nobody making that mistake. That's because a person hired to make a flyer should know this kind of thing.

I recall early on this was an issue with the 3DS too, a lot of people didn't know it was a new system and not just a DS model with a 3D screen.



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NoirSon on 02 August 2013
happydolphin said:
NoirSon said:
happydolphin said:
NoirSon said:

Technically, people are blaming Nintendo for being stupid in design choices. You want to coast on the Wii's fame, understanable but make the name something that the public at large can understand or the console look different from your most recent Wii redesign.

The Wii has had the most expensive accessories for a Nintendo system since the original NES, when the biggest new additiion is just the GamePad, with commercials and events highlighting that you can play it on Wii controllers and no games that weren't unique in terms of gameplay to the system aside from the under marketed ZombiU and NintendoLand does that really convey the message that this is a brand new console? I don't blame Target, this is a Nintendo problem, they seem to have made many mistakes when coming up with how to market their device while trying to recapture the previous Wii audiences and traditional gamers, they are now suffering for it needlessly because of their actions and decisions.

 

Target is a distributor. The person who made the mistake is the artist that made the flyer, not Nintendo's. It's simple.

The person who's job it is to put the proper objects on the flyer should know that the WiiU doesn't look like that if they're putting the WiiU listing.

I know it is Target's ad but I am saying Nintendo in designing the Wii U made this type of mistake too easy to occur.

This is the Wii's redesign

 

And this is the Wii U

Are you telling me that if you had to grab one off a shelf not really knowing anything about the differences of the Wii or Wii U and were given the GamePad and told to grab the Wii system, you'd be able tell that they were meant to be two completely different devices?  Heck, here is an image showing their dimensions compared to one another.

 

The Wii U is only slightly bigger then the Wii, so no I still put this on Nintendo for making a system that barely looks different from their last one, with a similar name and similar/identical controllers outside of the Gamepad.

The same exact thing can be said about the DS, DS Lite, DSi and 3DS. Yet I see nobody making that mistake. That's because a person hired to make a flyer should know this kind of thing.

The DS, DS Lite and DSi are meant to be the exact same line all within the same generation of hardware, just like the GBA, GBA SP and later the GBA Micro. The 3DS at least had the benefit of most of its regular devices having 2 tone coloring scheme compared to the DS devices which are one color schemes. But even then those are portables, the Wii U is meant to be something new, you can't get people to migrate easily if the vendors (who are usually not the brightest or most objective if they are ) can't properly tell or explain the difference between your previous generation of hardware and your next aside from one being able to play on a tablet like controller and the knowledge that it still won't be as powerful as the more expensive (and thus retail friendlier) systems coming out before the end of the year.

Making a device that looks nearly the same can be done with smaller devices when they have really strong brands (Nexus, iPhones, etc) but doing it too similar just causes issues like we are seeing it have now.



happydolphin on 02 August 2013
NoirSon said:

Making a device that looks nearly the same can be done with smaller devices when they have really strong brands (Nexus, iPhones, etc) but doing it too similar just causes issues like we are seeing it have now.

What about the upgrades to the macbooks. The things look nearly identical to their deprecated parent models, yet the ads have no problem listing them correctly.



Soundwave on 02 August 2013
happydolphin said:
NoirSon said:

Making a device that looks nearly the same can be done with smaller devices when they have really strong brands (Nexus, iPhones, etc) but doing it too similar just causes issues like we are seeing it have now.

What about the upgrades to the macbooks. The things look nearly identical to their deprecated parent models, yet the ads have no problem listing them correctly.


Nintendo ain't Apple when it comes to marketing. That's like saying a 300 pound girl can't wear a bikini like a Victoria Secret model can, why yeah, no duh.

Nintendo honestly is borderline awful at marketing.



outlawauron on 02 August 2013

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happydolphin on 02 August 2013
Soundwave said:

Nintendo ain't Apple when it comes to marketing. That's like saying a 300 pound girl can't wear a bikini like a Victoria Secret model can, why yeah, no duh.

Nintendo honestly is borderline awful at marketing.

That's not the point though. I'm talking about the employee doing the flyer. Are you saying that employee needed to be properly targetted by Nintendo's marketting to do her job right?



AshKetchum1992 on 02 August 2013

lol I bet a lot of non-gamer people don't know that the WiiU is a new Nintendo console and when they see the box they think it's just a Wii with a gamepad.



Alby_da_Wolf on 02 August 2013
zorg1000 said:
areason said:
Again why nintendo shoudn't have had the "wii" in the name.


I think having Wii in the name is fine, shpuld have been something like Super Wii or Wii Ultra. That would be easier to recognize its an upgrade


Considering how hard it is for most people to get it, they should have called it "New Wii, not the old one, capisce?"



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t3mporary_126 on 02 August 2013

Maybe Nintendo should redesign the Wii U console. That can really solve the confusion. Since lunch boxes and hard drive, and cable boxes designs are used, maybe a satellite shape will be the new look.