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Nintendo Gaming / RE:At least somebody at Nintendo's Marketing dept is sane.
« on: September 23, 2005, 01:27:37 PM »
Ok fine, I'll give you that; from a business/marketing standpoint the SMS commerical was a flop because most of the public perceived it as tiku tiku tiku. HOWEVER, I think it's unfair to blame the commercial for SMS's lack of success. If a game is of million seller quality, then it's gonna sell a million copies regardless of it's ad campaign... unless it's grossly misleading and totally offbase, which was NOT the case for SMS. If anything turned people off from buying SMS it was because you played as Mario with a toy-like talking water nozzle attached to your back while cleaning goo off of an island. It was the game itself, not the foam-rubber costume with the happy music in the commercial that attributed to it's lack of sales. The SSB commercial proves this.
EDIT: In NO way am I bashing SMS. I just feel it was a bit too quirky and original to be the Mario 64 sequel that the public was probably expecting. I, for one, LOVED the game and it's commercial.
EDIT: In NO way am I bashing SMS. I just feel it was a bit too quirky and original to be the Mario 64 sequel that the public was probably expecting. I, for one, LOVED the game and it's commercial.