Nintendo buys a TV show

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Thatmax on 02 July 2009

Nintendo buys a TV show! holy shit! .... oh wait its on "Channel FIVE" ... never mind

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.jayderyu on 02 July 2009

This is what is called diversifying a portfolio. Nintendo isn't a game company it's an entertainment company. Something that most here have seem to forgotten. Now like Pokemon and it's parallel product this show fills the same roll as the show. How often does Pokemon show blatantly throw Nintendo games in. They don't it's more subtler. See this is a smart way of parallel advertisement, much like the show Viva Pinata. Except I don't like the VP show. Then again it's not for me it's for people like my daughter.

Smart move Nintendo.

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richardhutnik on 02 July 2009

I hope this leads to a craze of televising smart people trying to outsmart one another. Then, my dream of chess getting on TV, and it remaining, will happen!

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radioioRobert on 02 July 2009

Though the idea of Nintendo buying True Blood from HBO is ludicrous, they have done interesting product placement on the show. Last Season, the two main Vampires, Bill and Eric, were discussing their Wii Tiger Woods PGA golf scores. The Wii ads are there this season as well, just last week the newly made vampire girl was seducing Jason Stackhouse's best friend and he was trying to get her to play the Wii (his persuasiveness made it obvious it was paid product placement). Apparently HBO fits the Wii's market well, as product placement has been in Entourage last season (Wii Sports), and I expect that to continue this new season as well.

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Why the "Oh No! Channel 5?" comments?

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Thatmax on 02 July 2009

radioioRobert said:
Why the "Oh No! Channel 5?" comments?

Channel 5 is basically known for its terrible programming such as "sex: how to do everything", "Neighbours", "extreme fishing" and "Home and Away"

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Maybe instead of wasting money with TV shows, they should put that money into making their online service competitive to XB Live.

...are you serious? We've finally gotten far enough into the massive updates that we get to stop hearing Sony fanboys bitch (or, at least they're slowing down a little..) about bringing PSN up to par with XBL, and now we're bitchin about Nintendo's service? That's not an arguement to be had this generation...I definitely didn't expect this coming from someone like you...maybe someone with 100 posts, but not you..sheesh.