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As many of you already know, there is a furious console war in the games industry at the moment. Each week we see sales exploding through the roof, or sagging to the ground like your grandmas nipples, the industry is so unpredicitive that it’s difficult to foresee the future.
So, like every other company in this world of ours, Advertising is the way to rake in the customers and the moolah. Advertising comes in many forms, in magazines (no, not "those" ones, you dirty monkeys...) on television, billboards, bus stops.... the list goes on. Over the past year, we've seen advertisements from Microsoft, Sony, Game producers ect. Then there is a company called Nintendo, that’s a different story...
Don't get me wrong, But Nintendo are one hell of a fantastic company, that make great fun and innotiative titles that other games have had the inspiration from. We've seen Nintendo battling it out with Sega, but they all ways reigned supreme when it came to games. So what’s happened now? Surely Nintendo should be up at that number one spot in sales shouldn’t they? Well, yes they should, but there again Nintendo seem quite lazy, they need to get off their backside and actually do something about it. Over the Christmas holidays, did anyone actually see any Nintendo promotion? I didn’t, maybe the odd Mario Sunshine sticker on a phone box, but that’s it. So what the hell are Nintendo doing?
Nintendo's reluctance to advertise is quite worrying, even GAME stores plaster their walls with large Xbox and PS2 adverts. Well, the main subject of this post is a rant about an advert I saw last night regarding Resident Evil Zero...
The advert is of a small little baby in its cot and a narrator in the background explaining the things a baby should learn. Then it comes out with something along the lines with "But don't teach it to become an evil scientist who makes a virus that will destroy us all" and then the game footage sets in. Now as many of you know, The Gamecube has been stereotyped as a console for children, when it isn’t. Is this advert Nintendo’s attempt at shaking off the kiddy image? Well it’s a goddamn poor attempt at that. Nintendo needs to feature adverts with teenagers and adults, not little babies in a cot.
Granted, Resident Evil is not a children’s game at all, but still wouldn’t it be better if such fantastic games like Pikmin and Mario Sunshine were advertised? These are top quality games in their own rights, its a shame the gaming community doesn’t know about them, Or just pushes them to one side.
Although I’m a little bit annoyed with Nintendo’s advertising schemes, I'm a happy and proud Gamecube owner and I look forward to playing the likes of Metroid Prime and Mario Kart on my little console.
Thanks for Reading.
So, like every other company in this world of ours, Advertising is the way to rake in the customers and the moolah. Advertising comes in many forms, in magazines (no, not "those" ones, you dirty monkeys...) on television, billboards, bus stops.... the list goes on. Over the past year, we've seen advertisements from Microsoft, Sony, Game producers ect. Then there is a company called Nintendo, that’s a different story...
Don't get me wrong, But Nintendo are one hell of a fantastic company, that make great fun and innotiative titles that other games have had the inspiration from. We've seen Nintendo battling it out with Sega, but they all ways reigned supreme when it came to games. So what’s happened now? Surely Nintendo should be up at that number one spot in sales shouldn’t they? Well, yes they should, but there again Nintendo seem quite lazy, they need to get off their backside and actually do something about it. Over the Christmas holidays, did anyone actually see any Nintendo promotion? I didn’t, maybe the odd Mario Sunshine sticker on a phone box, but that’s it. So what the hell are Nintendo doing?
Nintendo's reluctance to advertise is quite worrying, even GAME stores plaster their walls with large Xbox and PS2 adverts. Well, the main subject of this post is a rant about an advert I saw last night regarding Resident Evil Zero...
The advert is of a small little baby in its cot and a narrator in the background explaining the things a baby should learn. Then it comes out with something along the lines with "But don't teach it to become an evil scientist who makes a virus that will destroy us all" and then the game footage sets in. Now as many of you know, The Gamecube has been stereotyped as a console for children, when it isn’t. Is this advert Nintendo’s attempt at shaking off the kiddy image? Well it’s a goddamn poor attempt at that. Nintendo needs to feature adverts with teenagers and adults, not little babies in a cot.
Granted, Resident Evil is not a children’s game at all, but still wouldn’t it be better if such fantastic games like Pikmin and Mario Sunshine were advertised? These are top quality games in their own rights, its a shame the gaming community doesn’t know about them, Or just pushes them to one side.
Although I’m a little bit annoyed with Nintendo’s advertising schemes, I'm a happy and proud Gamecube owner and I look forward to playing the likes of Metroid Prime and Mario Kart on my little console.
Thanks for Reading.
The original Resi advert was brilliant though. "Even adults get scared". T'was brilliant.
Exactly Sibs.
The start of the Resi Evil advert looks like some nappy company promotion, Lots of people will just flick the channel...
The start of the Resi Evil advert looks like some nappy company promotion, Lots of people will just flick the channel...
I have not seen the Resi 0 TV ad (I have shunned the mass media) but I have seen the magazine version of it somewhere... I think to an extent it is Nintendo/Capcom (whoever made the ad anyway) playing on the fact that GC is viewed as a 'kiddie' console. Though I don't think it's very effective at doing that. A more direct advert would have been more effective in my opinion. On first look, the magazine ad looked like something for a babycare shop... meaning most gamers will just turn the page without a second look...
Why should we care if they advertise or not? I have my GC, if anyone else doesn't it's their loss.
As many of you already know, there is a furious console war in the games industry at the moment. Each week we see sales exploding through the roof, or sagging to the ground like your grandmas nipples, the industry is so unpredicitive that it’s difficult to foresee the future.
So, like every other company in this world of ours, Advertising is the way to rake in the customers and the moolah. Advertising comes in many forms, in magazines (no, not "those" ones, you dirty monkeys...) on television, billboards, bus stops.... the list goes on. Over the past year, we've seen advertisements from Microsoft, Sony, Game producers ect. Then there is a company called Nintendo, that’s a different story...
Don't get me wrong, But Nintendo are one hell of a fantastic company, that make great fun and innotiative titles that other games have had the inspiration from. We've seen Nintendo battling it out with Sega, but they all ways reigned supreme when it came to games. So what’s happened now? Surely Nintendo should be up at that number one spot in sales shouldn’t they? Well, yes they should, but there again Nintendo seem quite lazy, they need to get off their backside and actually do something about it. Over the Christmas holidays, did anyone actually see any Nintendo promotion? I didn’t, maybe the odd Mario Sunshine sticker on a phone box, but that’s it. So what the hell are Nintendo doing?
Nintendo's reluctance to advertise is quite worrying, even GAME stores plaster their walls with large Xbox and PS2 adverts. Well, the main subject of this post is a rant about an advert I saw last night regarding Resident Evil Zero...
The advert is of a small little baby in its cot and a narrator in the background explaining the things a baby should learn. Then it comes out with something along the lines with "But don't teach it to become an evil scientist who makes a virus that will destroy us all" and then the game footage sets in. Now as many of you know, The Gamecube has been stereotyped as a console for children, when it isn’t. Is this advert Nintendo’s attempt at shaking off the kiddy image? Well it’s a goddamn poor attempt at that. Nintendo needs to feature adverts with teenagers and adults, not little babies in a cot.
Granted, Resident Evil is not a children’s game at all, but still wouldn’t it be better if such fantastic games like Pikmin and Mario Sunshine were advertised? These are top quality games in their own rights, its a shame the gaming community doesn’t know about them, Or just pushes them to one side.
Although I’m a little bit annoyed with Nintendo’s advertising schemes, I'm a happy and proud Gamecube owner and I look forward to playing the likes of Metroid Prime and Mario Kart on my little console.
Thanks for Reading.
So, like every other company in this world of ours, Advertising is the way to rake in the customers and the moolah. Advertising comes in many forms, in magazines (no, not "those" ones, you dirty monkeys...) on television, billboards, bus stops.... the list goes on. Over the past year, we've seen advertisements from Microsoft, Sony, Game producers ect. Then there is a company called Nintendo, that’s a different story...
Don't get me wrong, But Nintendo are one hell of a fantastic company, that make great fun and innotiative titles that other games have had the inspiration from. We've seen Nintendo battling it out with Sega, but they all ways reigned supreme when it came to games. So what’s happened now? Surely Nintendo should be up at that number one spot in sales shouldn’t they? Well, yes they should, but there again Nintendo seem quite lazy, they need to get off their backside and actually do something about it. Over the Christmas holidays, did anyone actually see any Nintendo promotion? I didn’t, maybe the odd Mario Sunshine sticker on a phone box, but that’s it. So what the hell are Nintendo doing?
Nintendo's reluctance to advertise is quite worrying, even GAME stores plaster their walls with large Xbox and PS2 adverts. Well, the main subject of this post is a rant about an advert I saw last night regarding Resident Evil Zero...
The advert is of a small little baby in its cot and a narrator in the background explaining the things a baby should learn. Then it comes out with something along the lines with "But don't teach it to become an evil scientist who makes a virus that will destroy us all" and then the game footage sets in. Now as many of you know, The Gamecube has been stereotyped as a console for children, when it isn’t. Is this advert Nintendo’s attempt at shaking off the kiddy image? Well it’s a goddamn poor attempt at that. Nintendo needs to feature adverts with teenagers and adults, not little babies in a cot.
Granted, Resident Evil is not a children’s game at all, but still wouldn’t it be better if such fantastic games like Pikmin and Mario Sunshine were advertised? These are top quality games in their own rights, its a shame the gaming community doesn’t know about them, Or just pushes them to one side.
Although I’m a little bit annoyed with Nintendo’s advertising schemes, I'm a happy and proud Gamecube owner and I look forward to playing the likes of Metroid Prime and Mario Kart on my little console.
Thanks for Reading.