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How will Kingdom Hearts 3 be marketed considering most fans are in there 20s?
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Supermanisdead
Member
its going to be all frozen.
Teens do, not sure where they're getting exposed to it but Pokemon is still around.
LouisaFerre
Member
I hope they wouldn't worry about it, because anyone who's already a fan probably won't really need a change in marketing to want the game.
Monty Mole
Member
Why would they need to market to the fans?
Deft Beck
Member
It will do fine with both kids and older KH fans.
Frozen has a 99% chance of being in the game, which will draw kids in regardless of how good the rest of the game is.
Disney does very well in adult age brackets because of how they've marketed their properties for the span of most people's entire lives. The fangirls did not disappear, either.
Frozen has a 99% chance of being in the game, which will draw kids in regardless of how good the rest of the game is.
Disney does very well in adult age brackets because of how they've marketed their properties for the span of most people's entire lives. The fangirls did not disappear, either.
Oh man, Yoda versus Sephiroth... Damn son. Damn.
Man, that announcement came out of nowhere and the reactions (online and on the conference site itself), is always epic. What a great surprise. I love how the girl in the corner is just basically crying lol
Anyway, how did the KH collections do? I always thought they did well. I remembered BBS charting on NPD on release month as well despite being on a single (dying, at that time) platform. With those considered, KH3 shouldn't have any problems. What they should do is attract new, younger fans.
No way RPG fans are in it for FF characters anymore. FF characters have been getting shafted for a long time.
Glendemonium
Member
I came to say just that... but add a sing a long version like they did with the Little Mermaid bit.
I'll show myself out.
Yep, all you need is Frozen, Brave, or any of the other recently released Disney movies in there and your golden. Honestly Disney characters are known for being timeless some of my younger relatives know and love movies like Beauty and the Beast and even Bambi which were shown way before they were born.
The caption motions always crack me up in this video no matter what.
On topic, one thing they should consider doing is finally replace Haley Joel Osment. The dude does NOT sound like a lighthearted 15 year old anymore guys, let's face it.
bobawesome
Member
If they're still into Kingdom Hearts at that age, chances are they're as insufferable as they were when they were kids and need no additional prodding to pick up the game.
Young kids will flock to it because kids like badly styled anime things.
Young kids will flock to it because kids like badly styled anime things.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
Jawmuncher
Member
Was KH1&2 even given that kind of marketing? Will be interesting to see how this goes.
Dougieflesh
Member
That kh3 marketing machine is going to be crazy...in 2018
Jakartalado
Member
By releasing the HD Collection on Next Gen and Frozen on the cover of the next game.
DAYUM dat avatar quote
Ivan Amiibo
Banned
The people in their 20s/30s who like it are already paying attention and will buy it regardless. They can sucker in kids and parents just by showing disney characters. Teens might be too cool for disney and too young to care about S-E characters.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
Most of the people i saw in the KH3 reaction video's looked like teenagers to me.
chozen
Member
I don't think the younger generation of kids will know what this is so they won't buy it. Maybe some do but I don't think it will attract as much attention. Which I find sad, I know many people out there would really enjoy the game if they knew about it and gave it a chance. So many sales to be had...
If that were true, This thread wouldn't be a thing, that thread wouldn't have poured salt into the wound, it wouldn't keep getting bumped every couple of fucking months just to RE-POUR THE FUCKING SALT IN THE WOUND.
Calm Steroyd, calm.
Rawket Lawnchair
Member
In there, but where exactly?
Hidden One
Member
That wouldn't be a fair fight.
Look at the difficulty tuning of what kids 6-8, and especially 8-13, actually play. Even the trashiest mobile trash is dialed in notably tighter than AAA "Normal", and in titles like Minecraft single misclicks can cost you hours or days of work.
The console gamer conceit of "I've been doing this forever, so I must be qualitatively better than people that haven't" is hilariously false on a scale with suggesting that the 55-year-old who still hasn't quite given up on your company's softball league would wax the floor with the MLB rookie of the year.
BurritoBushido
Member
My 16 year old niece loves kingdom hearts
Ploid 3.0
Member
Two new licenses and may lose rights in 2 or so years (Marvel). Too expensive.
The new world will help pull in the younger crowd, as more likely worlds for KH 3 could be the following;
-Big Hero 6 (to have the Marvel side of Disney covered)
-Tangled, Frozen and Princes & The Frog (to cover the younger fans of Disney and represent more recent films)
-Wreck-It Ralph (to cover the gamer demographic or older kids)
-Star Wars Episode IV (to cover all demographic's; older fans who grew up with Star Wars, newer fans of the upcoming film, and younger fans who loved the Star Wars cartoons)
That should cover all the bases for Disney
. That alongside bringing back two or four worlds from past games (PoTC for the second/third movie, Lion King for the second film, Fantasa to represent the original film, and Olympus Colusem to cover exploring Mount Olympus, something never done in prior games in the series) and new worlds based on older Disney films (Treasure Planet, Atlantis the Lost Empire, Emperors New Grove, Rescuers Down Under, Sword and The Stone, Pocahontas) and you have a killer set of worlds for KH3 .
-Big Hero 6 (to have the Marvel side of Disney covered)
-Tangled, Frozen and Princes & The Frog (to cover the younger fans of Disney and represent more recent films)
-Wreck-It Ralph (to cover the gamer demographic or older kids)
-Star Wars Episode IV (to cover all demographic's; older fans who grew up with Star Wars, newer fans of the upcoming film, and younger fans who loved the Star Wars cartoons)
That should cover all the bases for Disney
. That alongside bringing back two or four worlds from past games (PoTC for the second/third movie, Lion King for the second film, Fantasa to represent the original film, and Olympus Colusem to cover exploring Mount Olympus, something never done in prior games in the series) and new worlds based on older Disney films (Treasure Planet, Atlantis the Lost Empire, Emperors New Grove, Rescuers Down Under, Sword and The Stone, Pocahontas) and you have a killer set of worlds for KH3 .
Deft Beck
Member
Two female leads, one with magic ice powers.
wait how would they lose the rights to them if marvel is owned by Disney?
Anyways out of the new properties i think star wars is the one thats going to be left for summons and such.
i would completely love a star wars world though, Specially if they play up the darkness vs light and heart aspects of the force.
Out of the new properties to me big hero 6 seems to be the one level where in my mind i can instantly see it in a kingdom hearts style, frozen and others would be cool too.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
It's KH3... the big battle between Sora and Xehanort, Roxas/Xion/Ventus probably coming back etc etc
and i guess they can put a popular disney chatacter in the cover or something lol
and i guess they can put a popular disney chatacter in the cover or something lol
NHarmonic.
Member
Considering the events that will happen on KH3 as the big finale, you can have a couple of amazing trailers (in the vibe of BBS spoilerish CG-video), more "mature" and such. And well, appealing to kids you can have frozen and the vast majority of disney worlds...