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CAGiversary!
I’ve been thinking a lot about this for the past couple days and I’m wonder what you guys have to say about the topic.
Before Metroid Prime 3 was released, IGN posted an editorial that questioned why Nintendo wasn’t hyping up the game. Stephen Totilo also had a few interesting things to say about Nintendo’s marketing strategy to the core. Now, we’re coming up on the new year with a whole bunch of new games that are of equal or greater “value” than MP3. Was this original argument viable? Is it still relevant?
This is especially interesting to think about when you compare Nintendo “competitively” against Sony and Microsoft. Sony and Microsoft have a laser focus on that “hardcore gamer,” but Nintendo’s focus has to be a bit broad.
Do you think Nintendo doing enough to market these games to the “hardcore gamer”?
What do you think are/have been the effects of Nintendo’s marketing to gamers?
I think its an interesting question to look at, especially from the perspective of gamers who haven’t “bought into” the Wii phenom… and who are used to the very different type of marketing from Sony/Microsoft. This should get a nice Sunday conversation going. Interested in what you guys think.
Before Metroid Prime 3 was released, IGN posted an editorial that questioned why Nintendo wasn’t hyping up the game. Stephen Totilo also had a few interesting things to say about Nintendo’s marketing strategy to the core. Now, we’re coming up on the new year with a whole bunch of new games that are of equal or greater “value” than MP3. Was this original argument viable? Is it still relevant?
This is especially interesting to think about when you compare Nintendo “competitively” against Sony and Microsoft. Sony and Microsoft have a laser focus on that “hardcore gamer,” but Nintendo’s focus has to be a bit broad.
Do you think Nintendo doing enough to market these games to the “hardcore gamer”?
What do you think are/have been the effects of Nintendo’s marketing to gamers?
I think its an interesting question to look at, especially from the perspective of gamers who haven’t “bought into” the Wii phenom… and who are used to the very different type of marketing from Sony/Microsoft. This should get a nice Sunday conversation going. Interested in what you guys think.