Author Topic: At least somebody at Nintendo's Marketing dept is sane. (Read 16925 times)

NotSoStu · « **on:** September 22, 2005, 03:56:04 PM »

I just saw the GB Micro commercial.

Cheese and GB Micro and are placed in a mouse maze, mouse goes for GB micro, and begins humping it while making squeeking noises.
The scientists put the clipboard over the area of the GB micro maze, and the squeeking continues. Fade out after 3 second of akward squeeking.

Genius!

TJ Spyke · « **Reply #1 on:** September 22, 2005, 04:09:06 PM »

Where did you see this commercial? I havn't seen any GBM commercial yet.

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #2 on:** September 22, 2005, 04:49:33 PM »

GBM is more sexually stimulating to a mouse than cheese? It sure makes me want to go out and buy one!

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joshnickerson · « **Reply #3 on:** September 22, 2005, 05:11:49 PM »

"No! That's not what the headphone jack is for!"

mantidor · « **Reply #4 on:** September 22, 2005, 05:39:03 PM »

O_o what the hell?

oh god Im starting to have an unreasonable fear about Rev's marketing

thepoga · « **Reply #5 on:** September 22, 2005, 07:20:04 PM »

Hahaha! Awesome! Now why couldn't they have made the Nintendogs commercial this cool...

Too bad the Micro is so expensive.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #6 on:** September 22, 2005, 10:55:41 PM »

Haha, I want to see it.

I don't know why everyone is ragging on Nintendo's commercials all the time. I'd say four out of every five of their commercials are really cool. The fifth sucks, but that's a better rate than most companies have. I don't know that they work or anything, but the commercials (coming from a film student) are well made and often very cool (or funny).
The Mario Sunshine and Nintendogs commercial just killed it for them, I guess. Although I thought the first of those two was hilarious, personally.

MrMojoRising · « **Reply #7 on:** September 23, 2005, 12:11:21 AM »

I don't want to see that commercial, I already want a micro and I really don't need it at all. The more exposure I get to it the more pissed off my wallet get's at me.

Mr. Segali · « **Reply #8 on:** September 23, 2005, 12:19:10 AM »

The Super Mario Sunshine commercial was the greatest Nintendo commercial of all time. Genius in it's purest form.

KirbySStar · « **Reply #9 on:** September 23, 2005, 01:42:09 AM »

Not everyone is of the opinion that clean is better than dirty.

Mario · « **Reply #10 on:** September 23, 2005, 02:28:41 AM »

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Originally posted by: Mr. Segali
The Super Mario Sunshine commercial was the greatest Nintendo commercial of all time. Genius in it's purest form.

I agree. The most hilarious thing i've ever seen.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #11 on:** September 23, 2005, 07:38:22 AM »

"The Super Mario Sunshine commercial was the greatest Nintendo commercial of all time. Genius in it's purest form."

Yes, I'm sure that's why the quickly took it off the air and replaced it. It was just TOO DAMN GOOD that it was hurting sales because the game could not possible match the level of the commercial.

I haven't seen the GBA Micro commercial but it sounds very similar to the same type of commercials Nintendo has been doing since the Gamecube launch. Since in general that style of advertising has been a total disaster I'm kind of biased against it already. I really think Nintendo has to totally rethink their whole marketing style because this "little funny skit" routine is not working. The Rev commercials should be totally different than the Cube commercials.

Pale · « **Reply #12 on:** September 23, 2005, 07:41:43 AM »

God.. why is that a good advertisment? Don't do this garbage Nintendo... Stupid sex oritented comercials (even rodent based ones) insult me.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #13 on:** September 23, 2005, 07:50:15 AM »

"God.. why is that a good advertisment? Don't do this garbage Nintendo... Stupid sex oritented comercials (even rodent based ones) insult me."

Nor are you the target of their commercials.

I like how Ian is always up in arms against Nintendo's advertising style when he probably knows next to nothing about marketing. I mean, the people making these commercials have studied marketing throughout college and their career. Most of their commercials are very entertaining.
Anyway, commercials have relatively little impact on sales. NES sold out the wazoo and look at the Zelda rap. Commercials are for two things: to increase awareness and to maintain that awareness.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #14 on:** September 23, 2005, 08:41:59 AM »

I like how Ninty has flipflopped between marketing styles yet Ian hates them all...

(There have been only TWO Ninty commercials which I have personally thought were bad...The Mario Sunshine one and the Nintendogs one...Everything else has worked or was great...)

vudu · « **Reply #15 on:** September 23, 2005, 09:39:46 AM »

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Originally posted by: Mr. Segali
The Super Mario Sunshine commercial was the greatest Nintendo commercial of all time. Genius in it's purest form.

I disagree. The commercial for the first Super Smash Bros game was the greatest commercial of all time. Not just Nintendo commercial--greatest commercial period.

Pale · « **Reply #16 on:** September 23, 2005, 09:58:39 AM »

Was the smash bros commercial the first one of all of the funny costume ones? I think those are all funny and I agree that the smash one was hysterical.

Artimus · « **Reply #17 on:** September 23, 2005, 11:14:10 AM »

Nintendo has some good commercials, but bad marketing. Their TV spots are fine, but they don't have enough marketing presence or 'cool' factor. Packaging is part of it too, and console design. Looking at the GBM's box alone it hopefully indicates a new approach.

The SSBM one was so funny. Running through the daisys, skipping dancing, then BAM. Haha.

vudu · « **Reply #18 on:** September 23, 2005, 11:24:42 AM »

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The SSBM one was so funny. Running through the daisys, skipping dancing, then BAM. Haha.

That would be the SSB commercial, not the SSBM commercial.

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Was the smash bros commercial the first one of all of the funny costume ones?

See Artimus' description.

Mr. Segali · « **Reply #19 on:** September 23, 2005, 11:34:50 AM »

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
"The Super Mario Sunshine commercial was the greatest Nintendo commercial of all time. Genius in it's purest form."

Yes, I'm sure that's why the quickly took it off the air and replaced it. It was just TOO DAMN GOOD that it was hurting sales because the game could not possible match the level of the commercial.

Seriously though, if anyone thought that commercial was truly tiku tiku tiku, they missed the point completely. It's like Nintendo was poking fun at itself and most people didn't get the joke; they just saw the commercial and thought, "OMFG SEE!?! THEY AER KIDDAE!!111". Come on! There was a construction woker and an old man in a electric wheel chair for chrissakes! I think everyone but Nintendo failed with that commercial... but I guess that's just my opinion.

I guess what I'm saying is that it was a great commercial for the sake of being a great commercial... not because it moved alot units/hurt sales/appealed to key demographics/etc. Plus, I really doubt the commercials had much to do with the poor sales. Look at the original Legend of Zelda commercial or even Nintendogs. I HIGHLY doubt that game sold so well because "Nintendogs are off da hook, playa".

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Originally posted by: Pale
Was the smash bros commercial the first one of all of the funny costume ones?

I think credit goes to Sony for their Crash Bandicoot commercials on the PS.

Pale · « **Reply #20 on:** September 23, 2005, 11:46:25 AM »

Man vudu, now you confused me.

stevey · « **Reply #21 on:** September 23, 2005, 11:52:25 AM »

I wasnt going to get the gbm but an ad with humping make me buy a micro ... err make that 10 micros can you get STD from a gbm? hope not

vudu · « **Reply #22 on:** September 23, 2005, 12:05:45 PM »

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Originally posted by: Pale
Man vudu, now you confused me.

Sorry, I thought you were asking which commercial had the funny costumes--SSB or SSBM. As far as which was the first commercial ever with funny costumes, you got me. I seem to remember a funny-costumed pac-man commercial from the 80s.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #23 on:** September 23, 2005, 01:06:36 PM »

"I like how Ian is always up in arms against Nintendo's advertising style when he probably knows next to nothing about marketing. I mean, the people making these commercials have studied marketing throughout college and their career. Most of their commercials are very entertaining."

Oooo. Guys have studied marketing so they MUST know what they're doing. I think history has shown that just because you have a degree in something doesn't mean you know what you're doing. Tons of business disasters have occured with "qualified" businessmen on top. I'm not saying I'm a marketing expert but a piece of paper don't make someone infallible.

The goal of a commercial is to sell product. If the product is of high quality and value but doesn't sell then the commercial sucks. The Cube didn't sell. Therefore it makes NO SENSE to continue with the same commercial style that was used for the Cube. I don't care if you find the commercial entertaining. The important thing is that it helps convince people to buy the game and obviously it didn't. Nintendo's mindshare is the sh!ts. Today I was talking with co-workers and videogames got brought up. Nintendo was not mentioned at all until I joined the conversation. Nintendo's marketing SUCKS so therefore they have to CHANGE it.

And just because you "got" the Super Mario Sunshine commercial doesn't make it a good commercial. Most people misinterpreted it and as a result thought the game was the very thing Nintendo was trying to avoid: that it was some fluffy kids game. You can't have "cult" advertisements for a mainstream products. It has to be something that almost everyone gets right away. Super Mario Sunshine's commercial is the worst commercial Nintendo ever made. It was so important for the Cube's future that Super Mario Sunshine be a runaway success, so due to how much was riding on the marketing it has to be the worst by far. It was the one ad they absolutely HAD to get right and they totally screwed it up.

Mr. Segali · « **Reply #24 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.

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Author Topic: At least somebody at Nintendo's Marketing dept is sane. (Read 16925 times)