Author Topic: MS taking a marketting cue from Nintendo? (Read 6175 times)

mouse_clicker · « **on:** April 03, 2003, 12:40:12 PM »

According to GameSpot, Microsoft has a contest to find the biggest Halo fan out there, with big prizes for whoever meets the criteria. This is very similar to several contests Nintendo's done- first the biggest Nintendo fan ever contest (where people ate bugs looking like a Pikmin, juggled, and proposed to wives dressed as Mario characters), and then the biggest Metroid fan contest. Could it be that Microsoft, who appears to have few problems in the marketing sense stateside, is taking a cue from Nintendo, who arguably needs more training in the field since recent times? Just an interesting thought.

manunited4eva22 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 03, 2003, 01:24:36 PM »

Microsoft will try anything that invloves marketing. I will never stop mentioning Xbox sponsoring an obscure summer lifeguard program.

Strell · « **Reply #2 on:** April 03, 2003, 01:26:52 PM »

OMG, I DRES UPS NI SI GREN ARMAR N RUNS ARUOUDS TEH PLAECE!!!111 OMG SI MUCH FUN, AHZLAO IS TEH BESTSETESTOSIE GAEM TO WET MY PATSNEZ!!111LOLWTF LOK AT TEH BOXUY ENVIRONSMENTS WITH SI BUMPOP PROCXOSXERING!!1111 OMG ID SOFTWAER!11

Man, I can't wait to see the dregs this contest pulls up....Probably worthy of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

Michael_82 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 03, 2003, 01:27:00 PM »

Yeah, the two ideas do seem pretty similar, and I wouldn't be surprised if they got the idea from Nintendo, not that I'm trying to bash Microsoft. But, this could be something that Microsoft would have come up with anyways, its hard to tell really.

rpglover · « **Reply #4 on:** April 03, 2003, 01:34:55 PM »

honestly thats the problem i have with the xbox and microsoft- its marketing ploys
of course it seems like nintendos and i bet they really took it from them
basically nintendo has marketed more recently and the ps2 markets but not as bad as microsoft
its good for business- but that is why the xbox is doing well in america- all of its marketing
they dont have the best games but they are marketed so well that only the "coolest kids and teenagers" have the xbox
this may sound weird, but all of this reminds me of fast food ploys
for example-- mc donalds has been around the longest and used to not advertise as much
but then burger king started to copy off of mc donalds-- the big king, the whopper, their kids meals-- all were ripped straight from mc donalds
and that is what led to larger advertising for mc donalds
so i guess marketing is everywhere like that
microsoft is not making the most money- nintendo is- but microsofts marketing makes the xbox seem like the best
hopefully nintendo makes better marketing choices but i feel that i own the best system in the gamecube
and that is all that matters to me- fun games and knowing i made the right choice for systems

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #5 on:** April 03, 2003, 01:39:44 PM »

I don't care what anyone says; Nintendo has awesome advertising. Not very much, yes, but they have very interesting ways of getting it done, and even the TV commercials and logos are cool. Order of good advertising: GC, Xbox, then PS2 (ye gods their advertisements make me sick).
Xbox could use some ideas. They're a bit bland when it comes to ideas like that. . . not blatantly bad like PS2, just lacking.

Infernal Monkey · « **Reply #6 on:** April 03, 2003, 02:42:59 PM »

What, is Microsoft trying to commit suicide? Don't they know one of the only reasons people buy an Xbox is for Halo? They'll be crushed with pre-teen fanboys! Crushed I tell you!

MWA HA HA HA HA!

To the Infernal mobile!

*Gets in a go-kart and speeds off while launching turtle shells*

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #7 on:** April 03, 2003, 03:03:45 PM »

Uh, yeah. . . has nothing to do with advertising, and your point is dumb, but sure. Whatever you say.

cyrus420 · « **Reply #8 on:** April 03, 2003, 04:21:59 PM »

thats the monkey for you.

Infernal Monkey · « **Reply #9 on:** April 03, 2003, 04:29:53 PM »

Quote
Originally posted by: Hostile Creation
Uh, yeah. . . has nothing to do with advertising, and your point is dumb, but sure. Whatever you say.

Why would I want to bitch about advertising when I can speed off in the Infernal mobile? I mean, c'mon, this thing has everything. Wheels, a big number 8 on it, and some basic frame work! It doesn't get anymore advanced.

Come Hostile, I know you want your own Hostile mobile. You can even shoot bananas out of your ass when you get your own moblie. Painful, yes, but if somebody else is attempting to fire a turtle shell at you, it can come in handy!

*BUUUUR*
*NOISES GO HERE*

Strell · « **Reply #10 on:** April 03, 2003, 04:38:30 PM »

I beleive I shall award 10 points to Infernal.

PIAC · « **Reply #11 on:** April 03, 2003, 09:11:35 PM »

i want a piacmobile

come gimme a ride in the infernalmobile!! it sounds so mobile... and infernal.... and it has an 8 an EIGHT!

but on the subject of microsoft with the hayloe fan comp thingy, would be interesting how they ran it, i would go just to see what it was like eheheh, ohwell maybe if they have one near me (a nintendo one would be better (Cuuurse you sydneyers cuuuurse yoooou))

Infernal Monkey · « **Reply #12 on:** April 03, 2003, 11:52:25 PM »

*Pulls a PIAC mobile out of top jacket pocket*

There ya go, it's got the wheels, basic frame work, and a space to put your very own number!
Come, let us race around a haunted track, followed by a lap of a castle maybe?

*Eats a mushroom, does a gigantic fart*

(That's the speed boost, you see)

couchmonkey · « **Reply #13 on:** April 04, 2003, 07:33:01 AM »

Actually, this is a pretty common marketing ploy that was developed long before Nintendo did it with Pikmin. The whole, "how far would you go to get thing X" method of advertising is as old as the hills...or at least as old as TV.

thecubedcanuck · « **Reply #14 on:** April 04, 2003, 07:36:45 AM »

this is a very common marketing ploy especially in Radio.
You want concert tickets?
How much do like band "x"

Nintendo didnt invent this people.

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #15 on:** April 04, 2003, 10:59:27 AM »

I didn't say that Nintendo invented it, just that they're the only ones in videogames doing it on a large scale and MS seems to have picked it up right after Nintendo. Don't you find it kind of odd that MS has never used this marketing scheme until Nintendo did?

AERO · « **Reply #16 on:** April 04, 2003, 01:48:13 PM »

Thankyou for pointing that out couchmonkey so I didn't have to say it.

Twist it however you want, I think the only point of this topic was to get a discussion going about microsoft be evil.

I mean I could say that the gc stole the modem adaptor from ps2, but then they would have had to have stolen online gaming from microsoft, who stole it from dreamcast who stole it from computers. See where this is going?

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #17 on:** April 04, 2003, 02:15:59 PM »

"Twist it however you want, I think the only point of this topic was to get a discussion going about microsoft be evil."

Jesus, man- think before you make a claim like that. I WASN'T saying that MS is evil or even implying as such. I was simply pointing out the fact MS seemed to pick up a marketing directive from Nintendo, which is kind of ironic (it's like following the blind). I'm NOT saying MS *shouldn't* use the idea and I'm certainly not saying they stole the idea, since it's already been established Nintendo didn't invent it- by all means, I bet this contest will work out just as well if not better for them than it did Nintendo. I was simply pointing out a "coincidence" meant purely for amusement.

joshnickerson · « **Reply #18 on:** April 04, 2003, 02:43:35 PM »

I've got two friends who are thinking about entering that contest, and I think they would WIN. Seriously, they got some bonus disc that had a video of some Halo tournament featuring top players around the country, and my friends just sat there and CRITICIZED the people who were winning. They play that game so much it's scary. Plus they sit in the break room and talk about their last play sessions like veterans talking about the last war. From what they told me about the contest, you actually go and compete with other players in a huge LAN battle.

Nintendo should have a game tourney like that featuring Pokemon again, or even better, Smash Bros. That would be sweet.

AERO · « **Reply #19 on:** April 04, 2003, 04:16:13 PM »

Okay okay.

Anyway that would be funny if they actually played those people and then got the asses kicked. Not that I'm some halo master. I've barely touched the multiplayer.

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Author Topic: MS taking a marketting cue from Nintendo? (Read 6175 times)