Author Topic: What on Gods earth is this maddness? (Read 19449 times)

joshnickerson · « **Reply #25 on:** August 19, 2005, 12:52:56 PM »

At least the Advance Wars ad was amusing
http://ds.advancedmn.com/media.php?gameid=110&medtype=2

ShyGuy · « **Reply #26 on:** August 19, 2005, 03:31:09 PM »

As long as the "Hot Dog! Hot Dog!" people come back for the Pikmin DS/Revolution ad I will be happy.

stevey · « **Reply #27 on:** August 19, 2005, 04:25:03 PM »

They did the same thing for AC.

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Originally posted by: Infernal Monkey
It's an ULTIMATE FLASHBACK to hilariously awful wonderful 80's advertising.

"Have you seen the latest angry rant at Nintendo non-games newsletter?"
"No! WHOA, nice graphics. I'd sure like to get my hands on that non-game!"
"YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED IT YET? WE CAN PLAY IT ON MY NINTENDO DS ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM"

Those dogs from Nintendo are pretty bad, my voice will train them and I'll be rad. Wikky waaaaa
*Head bopping*

ewwwwww that from the god alwful zelda1 ad I wish I'll never downloading that commercial

mantidor · « **Reply #28 on:** August 19, 2005, 04:31:38 PM »

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Originally posted by: Infernal Monkey
It's an ULTIMATE FLASHBACK to hilariously awful wonderful 80's advertising.

"Have you seen the latest angry rant at Nintendo non-games newsletter?"
"No! WHOA, nice graphics. I'd sure like to get my hands on that non-game!"
"YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED IT YET? WE CAN PLAY IT ON MY NINTENDO DS ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM"

Those dogs from Nintendo are pretty bad, my voice will train them and I'll be rad. Wikky waaaaa
*Head bopping*

LMAO

so still downloading the commercial, damn slow conection ¬_¬

EDIT:

saw it... WTF!? why o god why!?!? I just hope what stevey is saying is right, which I doubt.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #29 on:** August 19, 2005, 04:44:30 PM »

I changed my mind about the Zelda trailer for a commercial. They should have the oldschool commercial, Zelda rap included, accompanied by some footage. That would kick more butt than the love-child of Bruce Lee and Steven Seagal.

mantidor · « **Reply #30 on:** August 19, 2005, 04:55:14 PM »

If the comercial is actually famous in NA it would be awesome, but if it really isnt it would be a commercial for just Zelda fans, who are going to buy the game anyway, making the commercial futile.

Shecky · « **Reply #31 on:** August 19, 2005, 09:56:21 PM »

Do they not prescreen ads anymore? Of course to be fair, I've said that for many comercials, not all of which were Nintendo related. The AW

S ad is fine.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #32 on:** August 19, 2005, 10:53:51 PM »

I have a feeling Reggie is to blame for this ad... Either directly or indiraectly, it's his job to prevent these desasters, not rubberstamp 'em!

Plugabugz · « **Reply #33 on:** August 20, 2005, 04:26:04 AM »

There's "Demographic Advertising" where, for example, a FPS is targeted to FPS fans - if you know what you want, then an ad directed to your needs is going to jump out.
Then there's "Nintendo Advertising" who avoid the simple route and choose to be different, for the sake of being different. The end result is that ad.

stevey · « **Reply #34 on:** August 20, 2005, 06:42:58 AM »

Just seen it on tv and It was so bad

why must I always be wrong what god did I piss off?

kirby_killer_dedede · « **Reply #35 on:** August 20, 2005, 07:52:58 AM »

...According to the ESRB, a fourth version of Nintendogs, Holiday Edition, is to be released...

nickmitch · « **Reply #36 on:** August 20, 2005, 09:44:13 AM »

My left butt cheak could've made a better nintendogs commercial!
Damn! There goes US sales. . .

kirby_killer_dedede · « **Reply #37 on:** August 20, 2005, 10:27:18 AM »

Not necessarily...word of mouth is pretty powerful, I don't think I ever saw a single commercial for Halo at Xbox launch...

Deguello · « **Reply #38 on:** August 20, 2005, 10:53:11 AM »

There were ads for Halo.

nickmitch · « **Reply #39 on:** August 20, 2005, 10:56:09 AM »

Maybe I'm over-reacting but the Nintendogs commercial was so bad that it actually brought tears to my eyes.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #40 on:** August 20, 2005, 11:06:44 AM »

I just saw the female version on the Nintendogs commercial!!!

OMG!!! How volcanic was her outfit...

but all joking aside, has it ever dawned on you that you may be a little more out of touch with those younger than you than you thought? Or that YOU aren't as cool, popular, or in-style as you previously thought(speaking to those that are younger)? With that said, i think Nintendo just might be approaching this right and that they will reach who they are targeting with these commercials.

But thats enough talk from me, I'll just let the sales #'s speak for themselves.

Pale · « **Reply #41 on:** August 20, 2005, 11:11:25 AM »

I just saw a comercial on Cartoon network as well (probably the same one you did =P) and it seemed fine to me.

I can see it now... The game will still sell awesomely, and instead of NOA getting any praise Ian (or any other internet CEO) will say...

"Nintendogs sold well despite NOA trying to ruin it. They just lucked out."

This will be further proof that some people will always think they are smarter than Nintendo, despite any proof otherwise.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #42 on:** August 20, 2005, 11:30:23 AM »

It came on CN just before I posted so it proboably was, I've never really watched this cartoon before but there is nothing else on TV so I just left it on this channel

Bloodworth · « **Reply #43 on:** August 20, 2005, 12:50:32 PM »

I really like the puppy idea, Renny.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #44 on:** August 20, 2005, 09:45:23 PM »

"I don't think I ever saw a single commercial for Halo at Xbox launch..."

Not only were there ads like Deguello mentioned but those ads showed exactly what Nintendo's never show yet many of us feel they should. The Halo ad had quite a lot of gameplay footage (why not? Graphics are the Xbox's specialty) and tons of "BEST GAME EVAR!!111" quotes from reviews and such.

"has it ever dawned on you that you may be a little more out of touch with those younger than you than you thought? Or that YOU aren't as cool, popular, or in-style as you previously thought(speaking to those that are younger)?"

That's very likely. I don't fall for obvious attempts at advertising trying to sound cool and never did even when I was a kid. But I was never really cool as a kid so I was kind of outside of that culture. I do tend to assume that most people's reactions to ads are similar to my own but that's realistically not the case. So this ad might work despite it, in my mind, being incredibly cheesy and forced. It does have a lot of the problems that Cube commercials have and it's very easy to prove that Cube commercials don't work. The sales, or more accurately LACK of sales, backs that up. So does that type of advertising work for portables but not consoles or are GBA and DS sales unrelated to ads entirely?

Rhoq · « **Reply #45 on:** August 21, 2005, 02:40:36 AM »

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Originally posted by: Bloodworth
Nintendo apparently missed the fact that adults and girls are far more impressed with this game than whiny thirteen year old boys.

Case in point...

I'm 29 years old. I finally had the chance to play Nintendogs at a demo kiosk yesterday. I loved it so much that I went back to EBGames 2 or 3 times just to play with the puppies. The last time I was playing, a mother and 2 young daughters (I'd say one was in her early teens and the other was probably between 8 and 10). As I was playing, I heard the younger girl say to her mother and older sister: "You know my Birthday is soon. I know what I want. I want the Nintendo that you can touch. The DS. I want the DS and the dog game. I have to have those puppies."

It was at the point, I stopped playing. The girl was about 3 feet away. I told her that 'Nintendogs' was on the DS I was playing, handed her the stylus and said "have fun". I didn't sick around to hear her sales pitch to mom after getting to play with the Nintendogs. I honestly do believe that this game will sell systems. It's very hard to not like it...and I'm a cat person. LOL

Is there any chance that Nintendo shipped the title early so it's in stores tomorrow? I don't know if I can wait until Tuesday.

Nile Boogie · « **Reply #46 on:** August 21, 2005, 04:34:33 AM »

Although that ad really does suck balls, might have we crossed the threshold into "un-cool" and "old people"? Has cool changed that much since I was younger(I'm 27)? NO!!! That just sucked all kinds of goat ass. Snoop Dogg or Bow Wow for the "boy" spot. Paris Hilton, Hillary Duff or Ciara for the "girl" ad. I think I still know what cool is. "Pogs, super-soakers and Goosebumbs books".

Infernal Monkey · « **Reply #47 on:** August 21, 2005, 05:52:41 AM »

"Nintendogs are off the hook, player"

What does that even mean? Did someone go fishing and try to use them as bait?

mantidor · « **Reply #48 on:** August 21, 2005, 03:26:23 PM »

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Originally posted by: Pale
I just saw a comercial on Cartoon network as well (probably the same one you did =P) and it seemed fine to me.

I can see it now... The game will still sell awesomely, and instead of NOA getting any praise Ian (or any other internet CEO) will say...

"Nintendogs sold well despite NOA trying to ruin it. They just lucked out."

This will be further proof that some people will always think they are smarter than Nintendo, despite any proof otherwise.

Upon further reflection I ended up thinking the same, it doesnt change the fact that the commercial sucked for me

, but also I dont think I know more about marketing than Nintendo. Its very true what someone already said that word of mouth is very very important, in a poll I read recently that was the number one way to decide what game to buy among gamers. But I still cant think of someone watching that commercial and deciding to go out and buy Nintendogs, it doesnt even show the game that much! :S

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #49 on:** August 21, 2005, 06:00:47 PM »

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Originally posted by: Renny
Yes. I can't believe I had to get to the second page to see the most obvious suggestion: puppies!

Since the marketing graduates (read: college drunks) at Nintendo have failed at their fake career, here's the forula for advertising a game about puppies, God's most cutest invention like EVAR. PUPPIES!

Yes, puppies. And more puppies. Beagle puppies (so cute). Bull terrier puppies (so so cute). And some other puppies of varying breed. Mixed with shots of ingame puppies. Real puppies investigating the ingame puppies as a real puppy would. And throw in some more flagrantly unnecessary shots of puppiness. The inherent cuteness would be overwhelming. Everyone with a heart would immediately rush out to the stores to pick up the game.

And the commercial would be cheap. Forget all that crap about the difficulty of working with animals. These are puppies. Everything they do is both cute and valuable. And there would be no child actors. Come on. I'm sure there's an agency out there willing to film some damn puppies with their DSes.

So you say you want to see puppies playing with their DS's

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