Back on topic, then.
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Bill said:
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GameCube's official color is now grey.
Wait, hold up........Huh!?
Their commercials emphasize grey.
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Bill said:
This is Nintendo...Humbleness comes first whether anyone likes it or not...
...yeah, I guess that's actually good thing. I think they've found a strategy wherby they go into hyperbole on certain subjects ("this new device is the most innovative, world changing product since sliced bread!") while remaining humble and thruthful on what their systems actually do. Which is good.
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Reggie by way of BlackNMild2k1 said:
One thing the GameCube taught us is the importance of pleasing as many different types of gamers in the market as possible.
I want the Revolution to look more like an appliance and less like a kid's toy. But I don't want the REV to look like a VCR/DVD player. My CD player doesn't look a VCR. My toaster doesn't look like a CD player. My computer doesn't look like my toaster. Revolution should look stylish but still very unique.
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IanSane said:
Kids find adult stuff cool. Adults don't find kids stuff cool. It's just common sense to go for something 100% of the population will tolerate than something that only a part of it will.
agreed.
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IanSane said:
You could paint Sony as an oppresive government forcing us to conform to boring games and then paint Nintendo as the "Revolution" of rebels overthrowing the oppresive Sony and regaining their crown. It's aggressive and promotes Nintendo's innovative game ideas and it's like a call-to-arms for Nintendo fans. We're taking games BACK. That sort of thing.
YES!
See, Nintendo's whole problem right now is they're a bunch of losers. Everyone hates losers. But, somewhat paradoxically, everyone loves underdogs.
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TYP said:
I suggest "Nintendo" is dropped from the title (though that will never happen)
Completley disagree. When your company has bad press surrounding it's name (and Nintendo's bad press is pretty mild...they haven't been spotlighted for doing anything morally wrong, for example) it's always better to try to change the public's perception of your company. IMO, Trying to bury your company's name is a bad idea for a whole number of reasons, not the least of which is that bad name recognition is better than no name recognition.
As for Microsoft not calling xbox "microsoft Xbox", Im fairly sure that has more to do with them being known exclusively as a software maker, rather than because of any bad press. Notice that, when it comes to software, it's still "Microsoft Windows XP" and "Microsoft Office".
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KDR said:
As an advertisement I'd suggest having thousands of people with identical clothes, shaved haircut, pale skin and a green X tattooed into their foreheads (along with a barcode) sitting in front of thousands of numbered TV screens playing the same game, all in a pretty dark environment (think Matrix real-world scenes) perhaps with CG machines watching over them, then as the camera shows all this show two texts: "Don't be another number in the system" "Take the power back", ending with a "Revolution" logo in the end. Perhaps use that only for the early phase.
Sort-of related: it would be cool if they got Laurence Fishbourne to narrarate Revolution's commercials.
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IanSane said:
One thing I think would be good would be for Nintendo to have multiple brand names as a game publisher. So games like Mario and Pokemon are published by Nintendo but titles that aren't so cutesy like Zelda or Metroid use a different brand name. So "Nintendo" makes the family-friendly stuff and "Triforce" (or whatever) makes the more edgy stuff.
I think creating a seperate company name for mature titles like eternal darkness would be a good idea. But why on earth would Nintendo want to seperate their name from their best franchises? Why would they want to further associate 'Nintendo' with 'tiku tiku tiku! only'?
I really don't think the answer to Nintendo's image problem is for them to say 'yes! Nintendo actually is tiku tiku tiku! ! which is why we've created a new, non-tiku tiku tiku! , totally cool NEW company to make our new console and all our cool games.'
Finally, I'd like to say something on the touchy apple issue. Apple did something that I want Nintendo to do: they changed their company's image, almost overnight, from a crappy company that makes computers for schools, to a super-cool underdog that makes nothing but great products. They did this by making their hardware look really good, creating really good commmercials, making an outwardly pretty and inviting operating system, and fixing some of their computer's long-standing flaws. Furthmore, they did all this without changing that unique apple 'feel' or sacrifcing their overall more intuitive operating system.
All of this helped make apple computers extremlely inviting to the mainstream, AND didn't really hurt power users.
That's what I want from Nintendo: A massive image change, that doesn't fundamentally change what Nintendo is. And, a game system that is more inviting and more intuitive to the mainstream, while still being just as inviting to the hardcore.