Nintendo Admits 3DS Marketing is "Tricky"
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I seem to remember a few years back either Nokia or Samsung doing an ad for bus shelters with a fully interactive touch screen for one of their mobile phones, Nintendo could do something similar with them but with a parallax barrier screen to get over the 3D effect.
For print media, magazine adverts and billboards how about full colour holograms? These guys [http://www.colourholographic.com/] seem to know a trick or two about it, they've done a fair few movie poster holograms over the years.
For print media, magazine adverts and billboards how about full colour holograms? These guys [http://www.colourholographic.com/] seem to know a trick or two about it, they've done a fair few movie poster holograms over the years.
I honestly reckon that Nintendo could just run ads saying "Nintendo 3DS coming ", and it would still sell.
Putting kiosks in retail outlets would be handy too, but when I think about my local retail outlets, the days of them having consols set up to show off the newest games are long gone. I can think of one store out of maybe eigth that actually still has a 360 and PS3 set up demoing games.
Putting kiosks in retail outlets would be handy too, but when I think about my local retail outlets, the days of them having consols set up to show off the newest games are long gone. I can think of one store out of maybe eigth that actually still has a 360 and PS3 set up demoing games.
The same way everyone else advertises. Exaggerate it. Use special effects instead of the real technology that mimics it. It wouldn't technically be false advertising if they do it right, and it will get the point across. Is it possible to mimic the 3D effect by simply watching someone use the 3DS? I think it can be done.
Pay me in cash nintendo.
Pay me in cash nintendo.
That?s the best way for something like this.Kwil said:
I plan on trying it out at the nintendo world store in Rockefeller Center. What they should do is have a bunch of pop-up stores for the holidays. They could sell their products and merchandise and people will get to try the 3ds before buying.
Something like that could hurt them too. If the 3ds ends up being a brain tumor inducing torture devise like the virtual boy they will want their marketing to be as vague as possible.
Indeed. Word of Mouth is the best form of marketing possible. Once the fire starts, it spreads.DarkRyter said:
The trick is getting that spark.
Rubashov said:
I see the 3DS as an upgrade to the DS line as the Sp was the GBA. It's the same system to my eyes, just the perfection of that system. Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking the system, if I didn't have two DS's already, I'd probably want one. But I can't say that I believe it's a different system all together. It's an improvement and perhaps a perfection of the technology, but it's mostly an upgrade to me. Maybe when they come out with a 3DS XL I'll consider getting one.SirCannonFodder said:
Edit: Also, that Kid Icarus game looks fun, but after watching it I have decided that Pit shouldn't be allowed to talk. Dante he is not, lol.
But that just isn't the case. The SP introduced backlighting and made the same games look prettier without actually supporting a higher level of graphical performance. The 3DS does, in fact, support a higher level of graphical performance. Do you also view the PS3 as merely a new version of the PS2?Vohn_exel said:
I have to ask: were you even around for the change from gameboy color to gameboy advance? because this is on that level, not on the level of Advance to SP or original to pocket to color. We're talking about a move from 64 bits to, correct me if I'm wrong, 128. Whether it actually is an 128 bit system or not, that demo showed gamecube level graphics, while the current system can barely crank out N64 quality. This is every bit as much a new system as the original gameboy, the original advance, and the original DS were. If you can't see that, you're either blind or trolling.Vohn_exel said:
No, but would you call a more powerful PS3 with 3D the PS4? It's still the same dual screen system but with upgrades. The PS3 had a new operating system, a new way to read CD's, new processors, ect. So in my eyes, it's just the same thing with new toys added. I must say that I'm surprised that so many people are upset by my belief that it's not a new system. I mean, it's not like I insulted your moms or something.Rubashov said:
See my above posts. I don't feel that this is a new system as much as an upgrade. It's still a DS in my eyes, but one with 3D and more power. Maybe thats the way of the future now, instead it being something completely different, it'll be upgrades. I'm not complaining, I'm not hating, I'm just saying that I don't see this as a different system.Owyn_Merrilin said:
The 3DS has a new processor. See: http://www.siliconera.com/2010/06/21/this-is-whats-powering-the-3ds-graphics/Vohn_exel said:
I don't know if it will have a new OS, but I can't imagine why it wouldn't. The step from SNES to N64 didn't include a new way to read cartridges AFAIK, so I don't see how that point is relevant (unless you don't view the N64 as a new system, of course). And the PS3 could be regarded as just the same single-screen system with new toys (i.e., better graphics and a blu-ray player) added.
I can see the commercial for it now. It starts off with a 2D cut out world (think Paper Mario) with some people watching someone play the 3DS from the wrong side. They run around to where they can see the screens and the world becomes 3D.Mukil said:
Vohn_exel said:
The thing is, every system upgrade has been along the same lines. The introduction of completely new interface methods replacing the old as in the Wii and the DS are a huge exception to the rule of new equipment. The 3DS will be a new system in every way except interface -- and even there, it's adding a PSP style analog nub. We're talking new processors, new architecture, heck, it wouldn't surprise me if the cartridges were different in some way -- an analog to the new type of disc read by the PS3. I'm glad that you aren't being as negative towards it as I thought you were, but you're still wrong. This isn't a slight increase in power, like the Gameboy Color and the DSi got; it's a whole new platform, with nearly double the power -- and even a new method of control if you feel like going there.Vohn_exel said:
Rubashov said:
I still don't see it as a new system, though. To me it seems like more of an upgrade then a new system. I don't have anything against it, but really the only thing that I'd want from it is the analog nub and the more power. I'll have to get it eventually because I won't be able to play pokemon without it sooner or later.Owyn_Merrilin said:
Hate to throw my hat into this ring (actually that's not true otherwise I wouldn't say anything) but the logic you're using is like saying the Playstation 2 was an upgrade to the Playstation 1 instead of a completely new system. Or that the Game Boy Color was an upgrade to the Game Boy Pocket instead of a new system. In both cases it's not the case since there were titles that would only work with the latter system in my examples. While you can try to view is as an upgrade, the 3DS is a new system.Vohn_exel said:
Yeah I already had that discussion with someone else...just scroll upAceDiamond said:
. But yeah, I guess to me, it's just not that much of a new system. Maybe it's because it's from Nintendo and when they make a new system they usually make something totally different...but to me, it's just an upgrade.