was wondering if nintendo was even gonna advertise this game, or just throw it on shelves expecting people to go buy it, the game comes out in 4 days, hell MP3 had at least the metroid channel, and i remember seeing 1 commercial....idk i dont watch a lot of tv now so maybe its jus me.

has any1 seen any advertisement for this game??

I have not seen any commercials other than Wii Sports Resort.

Me neither.


I don't think they will advertise it, since every person who will buy probably already knows about it.

Probably advertise online, like Nintendo has done for the other NPC games (which this more or less is, even if it has far more value)

nintendo is so stupid sometimes...they have 30 million more consoles sold than gamecube and there trying to resell 2 gamecube games plus a wii game and they dont advertise...idk i guess they didnt advertise the new play control games niether least mario tennis is selling well. hopefully this will sell well so metroid can be more popular, and will give it a bigger fanbase by the time metroid other m come out.

@c03n3nj0: That's red ocean strategy right there. Wasn't the Wii supposed to be for everyone? I see WSR constantly here in Argentina, but never in my life have I seen a Wii ad for any core game made by Nintendo. And I'm sure it's the same there. Then thing like games not being localized or games getting cancelled happen, because they aren't making the public aware of such games and they move on.

The current global marketing strategy and specially NoA's one is the worst I've seen from any company. That's why Disaster bombed, that's why Excitebots bombed, that's why Captain Rainbow, Takt of MAgic, Trace Memory all bombed. Because no one fucking knows about them besides the ones that follow all the news on internet. No one I know knows about these games I mentioned and most of them were N64 or SNES owners. Their strategy of making people aware of such titles is terrible.

They should advertise. There are plenty of people who have no idea that Metroid Prime was one of the greatest games ever made.

I saw Gamestop pushing it when I went in there two days ago so I'd be lying if I said I didn't see *any* ads for it.

I agree. However, VGChartz has The MP Collection with 88k preorders, and may sell 125k the first week. People are aware of the title, but the overwhelming majority (probably 90%) are already MP fans, or have played these games before.

The one thing I have mentioned for about 2 years now is Nintendo's inability to Capitalize. They know endless amounts of things more than I do, and I would probably drive them bankrupt if I was in charge, but there have been many occasions this generation where Nintendo "plays dumb" to the competition and does not strike while the iron is HOT. Wii sales momentum could've been much better without all their mistakes, but no company is perfect.

3rd parties are at fault as well. For example, Spectrobes Origins came out 2 days ago and I haven't seen a single review yet. The game looks OK,  but the only advertisements are on the internet gaming websites, where the "hardcore" will definitely not show much interest.

People can't buy what they don't know exists.

They don't care or low marketing budget? or maybe they think it'll sell well and advertising will not help its sells too much. IDK I don't work there