Okami Haundo
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Naw... Superbowl ads are too damn expensive for that. But... watching the ads online is pretty big in recent years, so plenty of people will still see both.
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Nintendo Switch Super Bowl Commercial
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Naw... Superbowl ads are too damn expensive for that. But... watching the ads online is pretty big in recent years, so plenty of people will still see both.
ZeroMaverick
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Street Fighter 2 in the washateria was fucking brilliant.
I dunno, some movie trailers and TV shows that pony up Super Bowl ad money are released very well into the future (Summer or Fall). The idea is more that 40-50 million eyes will be watching and know that this product will be out in the market in March.
Inferno313
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No, it's not on until Sunday. But, nowadays the ads start to hit throughout the week in advance.
Confused Cheeseburger
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Shit, that was a damn fine commercial.
Inferno313
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the match-cuts of the dancing feet, and spinning controller-to-washing machine in the extended cut are quite nice.
abstract alien
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It's the little things that matter in the end.
IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE
Barry Burton
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The big thing for me is that new Mario and new Zelda launches haven't felt like a big deal in such a long time, outside of the Nintendo fan community. Nintendo hasn't treated them as huge events, like they were back during the 90's.
Focusing the Super Bowl ad on Breath of the Wild is a really smart move. This game should be huge for them coming out the gate.
Focusing the Super Bowl ad on Breath of the Wild is a really smart move. This game should be huge for them coming out the gate.
Don't worry. No one bought a WiiU, so they won't be looking to compare.
Only sorta kidding. I mean WE bought a WiiU and I loved it) but the mainstream barely noticed it.
Goldenmoney
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Pretty much shows exactly how I will be using the switch. Very nice.
NOLA_Gaffer
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Man, Arms is just going to look like a Wii Boxing rehash to most people.
BLUElightCory
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Interesting that they edited out some of the BoTW UI elements in the 30 second version but not in the extended cut.
Calm Mind
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You obviously were created in a lab.
Confused Cheeseburger
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The only shame is that neither Arms, MK8D or Spla2oon are even launch month.
This is pretty big too, people not having to wait months for it and then forgetting about it until the holidays.
Nintendo wants your tax return money lol
Yeah, they wouldn't have released a short version if the extended version were the ad itself. Still though, it gets people's attentions and invites you to explore more, the advert doesn't have to show off everything.
And damn at that fourth quarter placement. Nintendo's dropping some serious cash on this.
Okami Haundo
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I can't wait to burn all of my food because I got too involved in a boss fight!
That's the thing: the core segment market at launch is Zelda fans. Focus is important, the shorter ad delivers in selling the Switch to the most likely buyers.
randomengine
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Wow just saw the extended cut. It brought tears to my eyes.
Serenitynow
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Is it just me or does the magic 1 2 Switch game look pretty fun? Very Potter-esque
Inferno313
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Wow, fourth quarter placement. They're going hard on this, huh?
Don.Abbade
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It's really smart to advertise on the Super Bowl. Great move, Nintendo;
And, basically, a Harry Potter minigame in 1-2 Switch!
And, basically, a Harry Potter minigame in 1-2 Switch!
The Last One
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OMG are those Zelda bosses? YES!
Primethius
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The extended ad is terrible. It's a mess. Conveying way too much without doing any of it effectively.
The guy playing the game didn't appear to be having much fun beyond the slight smirk at the end. It was a tad depressing actually.
It seems to be more an ad for Zelda than the Switch. That's probably a good thing as trying to highlight all the information about the Switch in a 30 second spot would be confusing.
It seems to be more an ad for Zelda than the Switch. That's probably a good thing as trying to highlight all the information about the Switch in a 30 second spot would be confusing.
Not American. Why is the fourth quarter so special?
Inferno313
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It's the most-watched portion of the game, thus the most expensive part of the game to buy an ad during.
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I thought the extended ads problem was just combing to focus too much on kids and casual/party/waggle gaming.
For kids, that's just not the early adopter market for a console launching outside of the hollidays. Middle class and below parents aren't buying a $300 console plus games etc. in March. Save those types of adds for the holiday marking push.
For the casual/waggle stuff, I just think that Wii market is gone. Even games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band failed in their comeback attempts. And I really don't see average, non-core gamer people playing things like 1 2 Switch in public.
Gaming still has too much of a stigma outside of mobile. I live I a major city and work for an urban university. People were playing Pokemon everywhere the first couple of months Pokemon Go hit. Yet it's an incredibly rare event to see someone playing a 3DS or Vita. And when I do it's clearly a core gamer as it's some loner sitting by themselves on campus playing their portable, while their are groups of students hanging out nearby, messing on their phones together etc.
But who knows, and I'm typically wrong about this things. I hated the Wii and waggle shit with the fire of a thousand suns, easily my least favorite gaming platform I've owned and I've been gaming since NES.
So maybe that biases my pessimism on that stuff catching on. In any case, it's another thing that has me thinking about canceling my preorder as I'm just not convinced the game library is going to do enough to appeal to me if they're too committed to chasing the Wii crowd. I need to see more than junta their standard flagship franchises that I'm mostly sick of at this point. I'll think about it a while longer, but I'm leaning more toward canceling and just getting Zelda on Wii U and waiting until 2018 to see how the Switch library is shaping up. $300 is a lot for an underpowered console (I don't care about portables) when Zelda is the only game I'm truly excited for and I can play that on hardware I already own.
Astral Dog
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People that aren't basement dwellers and kidsI find Nintendo's "examples" of Switch use ridiculous.
Who's going to do this. Who.
uf this thing turns out to be popular that is
It's the last quarter and so if the game is close it's the most exciting part to watch.
Sylverstone14
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Glad to see Nintendo up their marketing for Switch after Wii U's troubles.
tkscz
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Actually, if you look at it overall, bad advertisement and communication really is what done the Wii U in. It's name, having Wii remotes in it's ads, never giving it a real premise in what few ads were created for it. To this day, people still don't know the thing even exists.
randomengine
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Last quarter of the game when the tension is highest and the most eyeballs.
This is 2017, most people who are interested in Switch after seeing the ad on Super bowl Sunday will go research more online, and from there they will find other Switch videos and the extended ad.
Pretty much anybody thats thinking about buying some tech, will have laptops, PC's, tablets, ipads, smart phones. People that dont use that stuff wont be buying Switch, unless its for their kids or grand
kids.
So its not that big of a deal that the 30 sec ad doesnt show everything
Could be hit or miss, if the game is tight, win for Nintendo. If it's a blowout, less people watching.
Barry Burton
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Especially if the game is close.
And since the Patriots are playing, it's a safe bet that this one will go down to the wire as well.
But you realize the millions potential who could be interested, ideally, in the idea of a convivial gaming device to play with friends in parties...
Will be invited to go see a trailer online by 30 seconds of a lonely geek playing a zelda game from bed to toilets.
It's Nintendo fucking up their communication again. Bravo Nintendo
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