Avutta1978
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I got to admit, nice strategy for Nintendo, especially hittting the demographics they want.
!Picture Nintendo...
...all up in my house. I know, that's not exactly anything I've ever really thought about picturing either. That was, until yesterday when quite literally, Nintendo was in my house.
Yep, that's me on the far right with all the Nintendo Peeps in my front yard.
Confused? Here's how it began: I get an email with "Nintendo Ambassador" as the subject. I look over it, and send a reply, "I'm sorry but I think you may have sent this by mistake". Get an email back stating that it was no mistake along with proof that the email is legit (I think I may have asked for them to take me off the spam list or something short and cynical) and that they know who I am (which I'm assuming meant the lowest-tech person stumbling around the blogosphere) and found me through my blog. Wow. OK, interest peaked. After a few more emails back and forth I find myself all signed up as a Nintendo Ambassador. Huh? I basically agreed to have some super hush-hush gamer shindig at my house so a big old bunch of my family and friends could check out the highly anticipated, not yet released Wii Gaming System. Disclaimer- this would be something I never thought I'd do in a million years until my husband caught wind of it. Mind you, he's no gamer but his thought, if the blogging world offers me perks, then who am I to refuse?? Good point. So,we had the party yesterday and if you can imagine, there were 4 amazing TV's set up, with 4 Wii Gaming Systems (under lock and key, I might add)throughout our house. It was pretty impressive, I must say. And I'm one mom who is not easily impressed with these kinds of things. But everyone was really getting into the fun, flailing arms and legs and everything. Let's just say that most of the Wii system games that we played do not accommodate couch potatoes!
SO, back to the perks. Hmmm, let's see if I can recall some of the perks...
Free shirts
Enough food from our favorite Mexican Restaurant to feed a small country (did I mention beer and wine?)
The ability to really impress our friends
Family bonding
Getting witness people getting their 'game on'
Letting our daughter and her friends go nuts (who now think blogging is the portal to all things good)
Our thank you gifts (Can you say DS lites & games? I'll bet your kids can!)
Playing games that no one else has played yet, "neener, neener, neener!" (as my Uncle put it)
Party Favors
To have a phenomenal group of strangers come in, set up a full-blown, all expenses paid, totally amazing party at our house and then CLEAN it all up for us.
Left overs (in both the food and the alcohol department)
But don't just take my word for it-check out the mosaic I made with those groovy flickr toys.
So, to put it simply, Nintendo won me over. And I think I can say the same for the 35 other people that we're here. I'll betcha half of them have already pre-ordered their Wii Systems (which won't be available to the public until Nov. 19th). Which is I'm sure what this party set out to do. And if that is the case, mission accomplished guys. Wii now love Nintendo. And for the record, you are welcome in my home anytime
I got to admit, nice strategy for Nintendo, especially hittting the demographics they want.
