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Adameh on 07 February 2014
T.Rexington said:
What's Nintendo Direct? Some kind of email newsletter?

It's pretty much a youtube series which the Nintendo channel realeases every so often which looks at upcoming games and trailers.



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sundin13 on 07 February 2014
sabastian said:

With your logic, all the "SO CALLED " media couverage should intale translate into sales. BUT IT HAS NOT......So please tell, what exactly does these Directs do ?

Proof please? We have no way of knowing how anything would be doing in the absence of Nintendo Directs and the 3DS turnaround refutes your point just as much as lackluster Wii U sales support it.

But how exactly could you think that less promotion would be better in any way? I don't get why people think Nintendo Directs are "failing". Like I said before, its pretty much free advertising as well as over 20K people tuning into each one (according to streaming site during all the NDs I've watched) and plenty more seeing the info on gaming sites afterwards.

NDs are not a replacement of convential advertisement, they are a supplement and in my opinion, do their job quite well. You just need to realize what exactly they are trying to do...



Metrium on 07 February 2014
sabastian said:
Metrium said:
gergroy said:
EricFabian said:
sabastian said:
I guess Nintendo finally realized that these directs do not work.
Sales are still low, Most of the directs lately have been blah and with the company's last big bit of info bombing, maybe its really a good thing to end them.


No lol. ND is the best way to communicate with their fanbase. 


really?  the best way?  I bet if I went up to and asked 20 wii u or 3ds owners what a nintendo direct is, maybe one of them would know and the rest wouldn't.  Nintendo would probably have better luck using more traditional game media, but nintendo has never liked releasing any kind of control of their message.  Which is part of the problem with nintendo.  They are way too controlling with information.  

What does other company do to get attention when they want to reveal a new game, release a new trailer or announce a launch date? They use websites like IGN right? Well I got news for you, after a ND, IGN ends up talking about what has been announced and post the trailers so that the ppl who are not watching can still learn what's going on. I know it sounds crazy, but if Nintendo announced the launch date of Smash tomorow at a ND, or revealed a new trailer, all of us including you will end up knowing about it cause ppl will talk about it on this forum, on IGN and other gaming blog, the same exact way ppl whould learn about any other game.

Back on topic. Nintendo needs to understand that the longer they take to give us this ND, the higher the expectation are going to be. I look at the future and I see nothing for both my 3DS and WiiU after DK. Only MK that does'nt even have a launch date, they need to launch Bayonetta between DK and MK or something else. Complete silence in front of this barren will only convince ppl to go somewhere else. Their's a limit on how long ppl are willing to wait on games with speculative launch date.

With your logic, all the "SO CALLED " media couverage should intale translate into sales. BUT IT HAS NOT......So please tell, what exactly does these Directs do ?

So the Directs are to blame for the WiiU's shortcoming? Your logic has no sense. Sonic Lost World bombed because it was anounced via ND so obviously Sonic Boom will do 100times better? And no games announced at E3 ever bombed right? Thank the lord their is no Playstation Directs otherwise all those exclusived that bombed would have done so far worst obviously...

And let's not forget the fact that LoZ:ALBW and Pokémon has been announced via ND, and that Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing's locolisation has been anounced via ND... Those games sales were sooo bad because of that.

Oh, and no one is excited for X obviously... And obviously Bayonetta2 will do sooooo much better solely because it was not announced via a Direct but via a press conference.

Enough sarcasm, my logic is'nt flawed, your's is. You are blaming NDs for nintendo's shortcomings while they clearly have nothing to do with it. 3DS games have been announced via ND and they are doing great. And everyone knows about MK8, Smash and X, they all saw the trailers on IGN or w/v and if they had a exclusive reveal on some websites or a press conference it would'nt have raised awareness at all, it would have changed awareness for litteraly not one single human being.



 

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zorg1000 on 07 February 2014
sabastian said:
Metrium said:
gergroy said:
EricFabian said:
sabastian said:
I guess Nintendo finally realized that these directs do not work.
Sales are still low, Most of the directs lately have been blah and with the company's last big bit of info bombing, maybe its really a good thing to end them.


No lol. ND is the best way to communicate with their fanbase. 


really?  the best way?  I bet if I went up to and asked 20 wii u or 3ds owners what a nintendo direct is, maybe one of them would know and the rest wouldn't.  Nintendo would probably have better luck using more traditional game media, but nintendo has never liked releasing any kind of control of their message.  Which is part of the problem with nintendo.  They are way too controlling with information.  

What does other company do to get attention when they want to reveal a new game, release a new trailer or announce a launch date? They use websites like IGN right? Well I got news for you, after a ND, IGN ends up talking about what has been announced and post the trailers so that the ppl who are not watching can still learn what's going on. I know it sounds crazy, but if Nintendo announced the launch date of Smash tomorow at a ND, or revealed a new trailer, all of us including you will end up knowing about it cause ppl will talk about it on this forum, on IGN and other gaming blog, the same exact way ppl whould learn about any other game.

Back on topic. Nintendo needs to understand that the longer they take to give us this ND, the higher the expectation are going to be. I look at the future and I see nothing for both my 3DS and WiiU after DK. Only MK that does'nt even have a launch date, they need to launch Bayonetta between DK and MK or something else. Complete silence in front of this barren will only convince ppl to go somewhere else. Their's a limit on how long ppl are willing to wait on games with speculative launch date.

With your logic, all the "SO CALLED " media couverage should intale translate into sales. BUT IT HAS NOT......So please tell, what exactly does these Directs do ?

When did he or anybody say Nintendo Direct translates into better sales? It costs Nintendo little to nothing to do them, pleases existing fans by giving them an inside look at whats coming in the near future whether that means new game announcements, new info/trailers for existing games, etc and most if not all major gaming websites post the news. There is literally no downside to having a Nintendo Direct every 1-2 months. With that said they cannot rely on it to be there sole means of advertising, they still need to have TV/internet advertisements, attend trade shows, among other things but again there is literally no downside to having Nintendo Directs.



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