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This is a real ad in 2013
- Thread starter Meier
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This made me laugh. At least now the dad is actually playing Most Wanted and can see where he is going.
GitarooMan
Member
The spin trying to push this off on EA made the whole thread worthwhile.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
You can go after parents without looking like an ad for soup from 1995.
Dave Meltzer
Banned
This is clearly an EA ad, Nintendo is too good for this.
DragonSworne
Banned
The ad should read
"Who is this kid and why is he in my house?" - Not the Dad
"Who is this kid and why is he in my house?" - Not the Dad
Speedwagon
Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel. Yabuki turned off voice chat in Mario Kart races. True artists of their time.
EA influenced ad is bad. Other one's alright.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
The denial and then the edits made it for me.
Weird Nintendo would choose NFS MW as its an EA game though.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Why can't they just create some attention to an ad like that, do something random, then you really start paying attention.
Now THAT's what I call a 90's ad!
Yup.
I didn't really care about the ad but this was hilarious.
"It's EA! It's EA! It doesn't matter if it's in the same style as a Nintendo ad!"
To be fair, EA's own trailer for the game was very similar with a Dad & Son setting with showing off the co-driver stuff.
That's the only reason I originally thought it was an EA ad and not an Nintendo ad. Kind of surprised Nintendo choose to make an ad for this game.
feint_ruled
Member
I understand why they are having problems with these ads. Asymmetric multiplayer is a very hard thing to describe. "So, we're playing together but player 2 is doing something totally different? But equally fun?"
A stumbling block when it is the main feature of your console. Surely they can do better than this though!
A stumbling block when it is the main feature of your console. Surely they can do better than this though!
This UK TV advert for Lego City seems to be going for the divorced Dad market too, there's no way the room with the TV would be so tidy if the kid lived there permanently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLNllVP2XOk
Btw the £50 price tag mentioned in the advert is $76 which is hardly going to win people over, you can get it almost £20 cheaper in many place though, the most expensive I can find is Tesco charging £42 ($64).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLNllVP2XOk
Btw the £50 price tag mentioned in the advert is $76 which is hardly going to win people over, you can get it almost £20 cheaper in many place though, the most expensive I can find is Tesco charging £42 ($64).
megabytecr
Member
Because what else could it be, it has to be Nintendo right? That crappy system ....
Dave Meltzer
Banned
So the dad's not playing the game because he's not looking at the screen (and not just like a sideways glance to acknowledge how awesome it is having his son there, his entire body is turned away from the television!), and the son's not playing the game because he's on he home screen on the controller.
Surely there must have been SOME other way to compose this shot that could better convey the same message.
Surely there must have been SOME other way to compose this shot that could better convey the same message.
This is a Nintendo backed campaign. They have different families and games in multiple ads that convey the same message. They've been running them for weeks in print after filming videos that they used online.
I tweeted at Wario a scan on the 13th.
nrvalleytime
Member
Ahh I was wondering when the Dolphin could be used in my living room.
Dave Meltzer
Banned
No you're wrong this is EA trying to make Nintendo look bad.
Why can't they just create some attention to an ad like that, do something random, then you really start paying attention.
You've made the ad at least... 3x better.
*golf clap*
Dave is being sarcastic. But on topic, yeah very cringe worthy just like the original videos with the different families. Also very 90s indeed.
Revolutionary
Member
Lol @ thinking EA is going to spend money advertising a game for a system they've already written off
Captain Tuttle
Member
That's the point, it's trying to tug the nostalgia strings of the fathers.
The whole "competitive with my Dad" thing is weird though.
superchunk
Member
"Every bit of advertising, whether internal or otherwise, surrounding this system has been an abject failure. "
This is the most important part of the OP. Its just been sooooo horrible .
This is the most important part of the OP. Its just been sooooo horrible .
RadarScope1
Member
This is how the Wii U SHOULD be marketed, IMO. This kind of setup is the system's biggest selling point - aka "little brother mode" as Weekend Confirmed's Jeff Cannata put it last year. The more games that take advantage of this unique setup, the better off the console will be. It's just that it's not terribly easy to tell that story via mass marketing - certainly not as easy as showing someone "swing" a tennis racquet as with Wii Sports.
It ain't for me, but I can see why families would love it.
It ain't for me, but I can see why families would love it.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Canis lupus
Member
Why isnt the dad looking at the tv lol.
Mariah Carey
Member
This is what gets me with the tone of this thread. It's not a great ad, but there's a "how dare they not cater this to ME" attitude that I'm picking up here (and quite a few other instances, i.e. check out every Wii Mini thread).
Just an EA ad, right?
:lol. Well that's that.
Some probably are still in denial though.
YouEnjoyMySelf
Banned
Holy lol.
GoddyofAus
Banned
Well, at least they have Nintendo's bread winner market worked out.
nrvalleytime
Member
Yep. Crazy dancing fools and soccer moms.
You really have to wonder how this kind of advertising clears a marketing department. Print advertisements are already somewhat antiquated within our medium, and it seems even more ridiculous when you consider it's in a Sports magazine. Maybe I'm wrong, but that magazine's clientele doesn't seem to be aligned with Nintendo's market.
Yeah was about to say, that would be TOO 90s.
The power of wiiu makes such actions redundant!
OT: Even for a casual market I don't think this is a good ad. It just looks so boring. I swear replace this with a new grill or something and it won't be any different. They need to be more creative than this.
Heck I asked my sis about the WiiU and she was like "oh is it out yet?" lol
Axonometri
Member
I hope this doesn't get me in trouble under the "scans" rule. I was flipping through a recent ESPN the Magazine and saw this ad:
This ad just screamed 90s to me when I saw it. Why aren't they looking at the screen?! Beyond that, the quote is from the perspective of the child when the target audience for this magazine is obviously men. If they wanted to stick with this concept, the quote should have been from the dad and stressed how his son can help him win (or how he can help his son win).
I was shaking my head when I saw it. Every bit of advertising, whether internal or otherwise, surrounding this system has been an abject failure.
Poor casual Dad and Son are so confused they are looking at each other instead one of the screens!
Third screen is the eyes of a child.
UberTag
Member
That's no excuse.
The video montage crew in the WWE manage to turn shit into gold.
Whereas these WiiU marketers are only succeeding in turning shit into... even bigger piles of shit.
At least he's holding it right.
I hate when actors mash on the face buttons in first person shooters.