BeamClaws
Balloon Fighter
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Post by BeamClaws on Nov 10, 2008 23:00:08 GMT -5
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Post by TV Eye on Nov 10, 2008 23:30:49 GMT -5
You don't like women, TV? I thought you did. What? Of course I love women. But I hate how every Nintendo commercial shows only women playing Nintendo games. It's like they're trying to say Nintendo games are meant for women more than men. That's just how I feel. |
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BeamClaws
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Post by BeamClaws on Nov 10, 2008 23:43:47 GMT -5
Well I heartily concur with you my, err, brotha' but I think it means that Women don't play games when I see these commercials.
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Post by Koopaul on Nov 11, 2008 0:08:10 GMT -5
I feel like Nintendo's new marketing plan is isolating gamers a bit.
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Post by Da Robot on Nov 11, 2008 2:08:23 GMT -5
Can't really blame them, I mean most non-gamers are women. They could have shown maybe another ACCF Wi-Fi session with a man talking to the women though (unless that would have made ACCF look too "hardcore" and male oriented even though it's not)
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Post by Koopaul on Nov 11, 2008 2:32:07 GMT -5
Well it's not the fact that it's a woman playing the game. It's the fact that the focus of the commercial is this average person and not the actual game.
I swear to god. I overheard a conversation between two guys at college and they don't even considered the Wii a gaming console! I told them about all the great games on it and they never even heard half of them, or if they did, they got the impression that they were more Wii Sports games. The advertising here is making the Wii look pathetic in the eyes of a gamer.
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Post by Wildcat on Nov 11, 2008 11:03:12 GMT -5
Nintendo's not going after gamers these days. It's very depressing. They're trying to capture casual gamers (i.e., my parents), and it's working out for them, so why stop? It's annoying as hell to all of us who are Nintendo fans, but it's winning the videogame war this gen. I know quite a few girl gamers (including my wife), so it's not just that they're targeting women - they're targeting the ones that don't play games (judging by that preview of the AC:CF ad, they're after trendy prep girls who normally wouldn't play any games). There's a big difference between those two groups of women.
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BeamClaws
Balloon Fighter
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Post by BeamClaws on Nov 12, 2008 16:43:10 GMT -5
And also, these truly hardcore games don't even get comeercials, I haven't seen any of 'em, so it's basically Wii is a console for everyone, and everyone means people who don't play games. And they don't want those people to know about the hardcore games because then it will be a game the CAN'T play, so Nintendo is just saying: "you want hardcore? Come to the back of the store."
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Post by Snuka7 on Nov 13, 2008 4:16:57 GMT -5
lol, hardcore.
But, woh, woh, woh. Nintendo is going for many non-gamers and are winning this gen's war, but I don't know if they are going for the 'girls' to play games. As much as the girls are enjying the games, boys are to. You can't say that women are enjoying it more just because they put girls on the ads. They aren't targeting them either, it's just that they put the grils on the ads, but maybe don't even mean to do anything.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Nov 13, 2008 4:37:54 GMT -5
Companies have a limited amount of budget to spend on advertising every year. Why would they need to advertise for "teh hardcorez" on television? Teh hardcorez already reads websites or buys videogame magazines.
The whole purpose of advertising is to inform people about your product and to try and convince them to buy it. You lot don't NEED to be informed or convinced, and Nintendo has learned through waning sales figures over the past few years that nobody else gives a rats ass about the latest Smash Bros. or Mario or Zelda game except for you.
Nintendo's job is to make money by selling videogames. And after many years of low sales, they are finally doing it - and in order to do it they've had to change tack. And they must be doing something right, because now Sony and Microsoft are clamouring to rip them off - and failing due to focusing entirely on teh hardcorez.
Being a dedicated gamer for pretty much my entire life, it is kinda galling that I have now been sidelined for my mother, who is likely to buy anything with Animal Crossing in the title - or my work colleagues, who want Wii Sports, Wii Fit or Brain Training.
As far as the games that are coming out, people seem to be thinking in terms of percentages rather than number of game titles. We've probably gotten more traditional games on the Wii than we have on any other system at this time in the console cycle, but we've also got a load of casual titles. So it's almost like everyone's worried about teh hardcorez gamez being diluted - That's only like 60% hardcorez, rather than the 99% we're used to, even though we have like 200% the number of games we usually get.
Following the very recent, very exciting announcements of a ton of new games for teh hardcorez over the next year... I'd think most of you would have stopped complaining. But nooooo!
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Post by Wildcat on Nov 13, 2008 9:38:19 GMT -5
Complaining is fun sometimes.  I did temporarily forget the recent Punch-Out!!/Sin & Punishment 2/etc. announcements, but I think the even more recent Disaster: Day of Crisis psuedo-denial by Reggie soured my hopes for some of those titles to make it here. Maybe I'm just pissy at NoA. |
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Post by Koopaul on Nov 13, 2008 10:41:56 GMT -5
Companies have a limited amount of budget to spend on advertising every year. Why would they need to advertise for "teh hardcorez" on television? Teh hardcorez already reads websites or buys videogame magazines. You'd be surprised. I was having a talk with someone at college about the Wii, and he said "Well Wii Sports is fun for a while but I rather play real games on my 360." Not even mentioning Wii Sports prior to that, he acts like that is the only title the Wii has. I informed him about Brawl, Metroid Prime 3, Zelda, and Galaxy. He said he had no idea. Advertisement plays a huge role. Remember Sunshine? That god awful commercial that originally aired in America? |
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Post by 8bitretroshit on Nov 13, 2008 10:57:57 GMT -5
Don't you mean the BEST?  |
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Post by Koopaul on Nov 13, 2008 11:09:05 GMT -5
Yeah, remember how quickly they changed that commercial after.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Nov 13, 2008 11:15:03 GMT -5
I really don't understand why NoA doesn't have a half-decent Mario suit that they can lend to their advertising agencies... why do they keep making weird-looking ones?
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