Because it's a little off the mainstream and I haven't seen other Nintendo RPGs get ads on TV (not since the 64).

I was mainly thinking of Paper Mario.

The sort of thing I was pointing out is that they fail to properly advertise something like Pikmin 2 and then put an advert up for Fire Emblem.

Not that I'm saying they shouldn't, it's just that a lot of RPGs aren't the biggest sellers compared to other titles (and this combined with the GC being 3rd in the uk console line would make it an odd decision in some people's eyes) and I guess this is one of their big chirstmas games to plug.

I just didn't expect it to have an ad.

They work from a lot of very strange assumptions, though.
But, any advertising is good advertising, even if it seems rather random which games get it and which don't.

Just advertise Zelda until it explodes, or I will be very angry.

It's not just the choice of game that seems a little odd, but the timing. I can't recall seeing many GC adverts back in the days when people actually wanted to play it. One now, is very much out of the blue.

There was a Geist advert a little while back.

It is Mario's 20th Birthday and so Mario Baseball, Dance Dance Mario, Mario Strikers, Mario Tennis (GBA), Dr. Mario/puzzle league (GBA) and Mario Kart (DS) are all launching in celebration. Should swing some sales Nintendo's way.

talking about advertising, i saw 3 bilboards today with gameboy micros adverts on them

At-least over here it has.

Hedfix wrote:
> At-least over here it has.

And in America... and Japan.

Handheld's aside.

more aggressive adverts would definitely help Nintendo, especially now when they are at a cross roads with fan - too many delays, let-downs etc causing lots of previously-nintendo fans moving to camp Microsoft.

but with the DS on the up and up, maybe they can do the same thing with the revolution next year as they both have similar stragegies - something fresh to get new gamers, girls and even OAPs on board. and this strategy is currently working for the DS, and its working well!

and with news of a global launch of the revo in the space of 4 months, it looks like Nintendo finally realise that they need to be much more aggressive.



saw an ad for Advance Wars: DS on the tv there the last day, pretty funny i thought (and an amazing game also!).

The Gamecube has long failed. It is all well and good appealing to anyone coming late but it is all about the next gen now.

Revolution is strikingly original and clever and will certainly sell very well.

Looking forward to it.

The Gamecube was heavily advertised when launched.

If the system gets good word of mouth then advertisement does not need to be huge. The DS is advertised very well, better than ever before. But the Revolution will get loads of advertisement to start off with and hopefully things will snowball from there and Nintendo will have the confidence to continue to push it.

Rozza1001 wrote:
> ye, i'm really impressed by the amount of ds adverts, sponsering the
> comedy on channel 4 etc.

Indeed, that in particular has been a massive new idea for Nintendo.

Nintendo tend to promote a "franchise" rather than individual games. Think Pokemon, it was promoted as a franchise and not as a game.

Same applies to Mario....