Post by: Perfect Cell on February 17, 2003, 03:55:26 PM
Post by: Sean on February 17, 2003, 04:13:01 PM
Is it just me or would showing Nintendo commercials during Dateline and ER be a great idea. At first I was kidding, but now that I've typed that, I think that showing commercials like that to the demographic that, by and large, watches those sorts of shows (a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE audience) would actually be beneficial. Okay, probably not.
Post by: rodtod on February 17, 2003, 05:11:29 PM
Post by: Caterkiller on February 17, 2003, 05:28:29 PM
Post by: Sir Daniel Fortesque on February 17, 2003, 05:51:57 PM
Post by: Perfect Cell on February 17, 2003, 06:11:50 PM
Post by: Stex on February 17, 2003, 06:18:30 PM
Post by: Grimlock on February 17, 2003, 06:48:39 PM
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Is it just me or would showing Nintendo commercials during Dateline and ER be a great idea. At first I was kidding, but now that I've typed that, I think that showing commercials like that to the demographic that, by and large, watches those sorts of shows (a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE audience) would actually be beneficial. Okay, probably not.
Sean, I completely agree here. The only reason I don't think Nintendo is doing things such as this is because they're still being conservative with their advertising budget. I'd also be willing to bet just one ad during ER (or Friends, Survivor, etc.) costs a good chunk of change, as they are among the highest-rated shows on network TV.
Post by: ThePerm on February 17, 2003, 07:11:56 PM
Ocarina of time did this, the trailer for 2002 did it...this comercial just says zelda is comign out...get it if you want...no big deal. Its a decent comercial, better then soem of the opther crap NOA has spit out but it doesnt say HYPE.
From what iv notcied about good game comercials is..good comercials are excessively lame and a silly funny or they show the game and play good music.
Post by: Dark Staedtler on February 17, 2003, 07:44:24 PM
.Is it the same commercial as is on the website? Similar?
Post by: Calibretto on February 17, 2003, 08:18:41 PM
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Originally posted by: Sir Daniel Fortesque
People at the N-philes forum are complaing 'cause the commercial sucks horribly. I'll wait till I see it but for the descriptions I read in there it doesn't look like is very good. It probably sucks as much as Metroid Prime's commercial.
The Metriod Prime comercial sucked? I thought it was pretty good. It was not the best effects, but for a comercial, it was the closest I'd seen to a friggn Metriod movie. It looked pretty cool. It may have been short on the screen shots, but I liked it. And I kinda like the new Zelda commercial too. But my favorite of the Zelda comercials was the old Majora's Mask commercial. The moon crashing on all thosh cities, and everyone panicing. I like commercials with a theatrical sense to them and more style to them. But I must be the minority.
Post by: Mario on February 17, 2003, 09:33:30 PM
Post by: Jollus on February 17, 2003, 11:42:52 PM
It sucked when I saw it in the theater and it sucks now.
The visual style totally clashes with the gameplay footage. The live action parts are dark and dirty and depressing, but then they have gameplay footage that is bright and colorful. I am not saying colorful is bad, but the two styles just clash with eachother. The only good part of the comercial is the last few seconds when they talk about the Bonus Disk.
Here is the big problem I see with NOA's adverts. They are getting more and more money for advertising. I know that sounds wierd. More money is good in most cases. But, what NOA is doing with they money they get is the problem. The gameplay footage of Zelda will sell itself. They didn't need all the stupid live action part. They should have made a clip of cool game footage, slapped some text and voice over talking about some of the cool stuff (like GBA connection). Mention the Bonus Disk. A rather cheap comercial to make. Then you use all that advertising money to ADVERTISE! Buy some air time on some high rated shows. Maybe the superbowl. After the game is out add some of the great reviews it has gotten on to the commercial (because you know it is going to get great reviews).
edit: I have seen the spot on G4 (the sorta-lame videogame channel, also the only place I have seen Skys of Arcadia commercials), Cartoon Network, and during Stargate SG-1 on the sci-fi channel.
Post by: Nintendo on February 18, 2003, 01:06:52 AM
"In America over 33 million people look at the series Friends. The costs of a 30 second commercial in or around that show costs 455.700 dollar!"
PS: Commercial's a commercial, so complaint if you want, but people will still see and think about the commercial and that's what matters.
Post by: The Caucasian Cubist on February 18, 2003, 09:36:20 AM
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Originally posted by: Caterkiller
It was one of thoughs EB comercials.
Wow. I could understand misspelling "their" as "there" or something common like that... But wow. i don't think I've ever seen "those" spelled as "thoughs". Ha ha
Post by: rodtod on February 18, 2003, 01:37:33 PM
Post by: Stimutacs Addict on February 18, 2003, 02:12:19 PM
get some good promos goin, nintendo!
Post by: ThePerm on February 18, 2003, 04:49:02 PM
Post by: VariantX on February 18, 2003, 05:16:07 PM
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