I'm suggesting they should have more advertising to have
more sales, holy
crap, do I really need to spell it out
that damn directly? I'd like to think most people to come to these conclusions on their own, seeing as how they are brightly lit and currently
screaming.
EA wants it to have a slow burn? That's fine. But that doesn't change the fact that having a bigger base
now can help that part out
too.
It's all about hitting with the most force as compactly as you can in this industry right now (and, really, in ANY section of the entertainment industry). Why bleed out X budget over 6 months, when most gamers play and forget a game within a week? Why not blow half of it up front and THEN do the gradual drain? In all reality, if the last half of the budget is going to be 100% ignored, then why not use it during the best window of opportunity?
ing Advertisement 101 level shit here.
Is EA happy with the sales? They said they were. But are they
really? And frankly, is this going to turn into another circle jerk argument where the third party says "Oh well our games don't sell" when they damn well know they shot their own feet and then
lit them on fire long before Nintendo OR Nintendo's fanbase had anything to do with it? I don't want to hear them bitch about how their games are selling poorly when they are doing this one-foot-in-the-door-one-foot-out dance they've been doing for the last few years now.
The shred of reasoning is
common ing sense. These advertising people must be hacks at what they do, because they've done very little to suggest they have functioning brains at the moment. And since they'll probably send out a rep in a few weeks to talk about how "only Nintendo's games sell on their system" and other bullshit spin, it just gets a little tiresome to have to hear it shoveled out month after month.
And yeah - I've heard the questions uttered at Best Buy. I even helped one clueless mom out around launch in 2006 because the employee there was your typical mouth breathing troglodyte, just as I'd expect someone to do for any fellow human being with questions I could answer (and likewise would expect out of some people here at CAG).