Already Torn
Banned
Just printed out receipts of my Switch preorders, burned them, and then canceled the preorders.
Fuck the Switch.
Fuck the Switch.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Nintendo Switch Super Bowl Commercial
- Thread starter jbug617
- Start date
- Status
Revolutionary
Member
Too late. It's already picking up steam on Twitter. Looking forward to the
Skittzo0413
Member
I know, it's just that most football fans of teams not based in New England kinda hate the Patriots and I don't want my Nintendo to be intertwined with the Patriots.
I bet this momentum... "switch" becomes memeworthy though. Which could be very good news for the Switch specifically.
Already Torn
Banned
How is that good news? It just means the Switch is the preferred console of neo Nazis.
DecoReturns
Member
Any publicity is good publicity right guys....lol
It's just goin to be a harmless joke.
It's just goin to be a harmless joke.
SinCityAssassin
Member
First time Nintendo buys an ad is the first time Super Bowl got an overtime. Like damn.
Nintendo and their silly inventions.
AquaWateria
Member
Fuck the Switch just switched the game.
Maybe they should have not aired the Switch commercial lmao.
Maybe they should have not aired the Switch commercial lmao.
Skittzo0413
Member
NoA must have been bandwagon Seahawks fans all this time to betray the country like this.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Have they seen how Zelda is NOW though.
Overtime and the largest comeback by a mile.
Dark Cloud
Member
There's too much negativity surrounding the Patriots and Tom Brady winning the super bowl. And somehow Nintendo got the very first super bowl ad ever gets tied into it lmao
In truth, not really. The Falcons came out flat the 2nd half and were totally outplayed the rest of the way.
Dreamwriter
Member
But...they didn't show that. The commercial showed a game controller playing a game only within a house - in a bedroom, kitchen, and living room on TV. In other words, the commercial showed a newer, sleeker Wii U Gamepad playing the new Wii U Zelda game that Nintendo has been showing for years.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
The ad played right when the comeback "switched on." Makes perfect sense!
Nintendo's advertising guy gave an interview about this. With the Switch reveal trailer they showed off all the major features of the console, especially the take it anywhere feature. But they didn't show people playing the Switch in handheld mode at home. Then Nintendo did some research and found that tons of people were interested in playing the Switch in handheld mode, in their own homes. Whatever their research, it showed that a lot of gamers plan to play in handheld mode but not outside their homes, so Nintendo wanted to highlight this feature in their Super Bowl ad to hit that demo and still show off its portable and tv modes. I think it works.
Skittzo0413
Member
Being up 25 points in the first half of the biggest game of your life will do that to ya...
I wonder if NoA will actually make a joke about this themselves. Tomorrow will be an interesting entertainment news day...
Dark Cloud
Member
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Obviously they weren't going to show the whole thing, but I think the extended cut did far more to make that concept clear and relevant.
Link?
Velocity:Design:Comfort
Banned
Yeah that's why you bring you unhook your wii u and take it downstairs, to your kitchen, plug it in, then unplug it again, go to your bedroom upstairs, plug the power back in, walk around your house around thick walls, etc, plug the wii u back in again, and then play it on the gamepad?
Oh...
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Then they would have showed an ad during the 10th inning of Game 7 of the Indians-Cubs World Series when the Indians completeled their incredible choke job.
People who are aware of Wii U off tv play and have been following BotW since before we knew it was coming to Switch already know what the Switch is. People who don't know or follow these things won't connect it to the Wii U or its features at all.
it's the first time for a console but nintendo bought an ad last year for pokemon go.
though at the time it wasn't super clear it was for pokemon go, but they still had an ad last year.
Dreamwriter
Member
Technically, The Pokemon Company produced and bought that ad, not Nintendo. Nintendo only owns 1/3 of that company.
Tom Nook
Member
Nah, Trump would've still won.
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
No one is going to be comparing this to the Wii U because very few care about the Wii U if they know about it at all.
I mean the reveal trailer was Oct 20th just a few weeks before the election.
Skittzo0413
Member
... nooooooooooooooooooooooo!
What if originally Hillary was supposed to win, but the Switch reveal switched it?
LegalEagleMike
Member
Switch put us in the darkest timeline.
VegaShinra
Junior Member
They said wonderfully written. Not just a collection of Tweets. /s
I guess it's good free publicity for Nintendo.
AquaWateria
Member
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
This is like a really bad episode of Black Mirror.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
The Switch commercial will change Nintendo's fortunes... they just had to sacrifice the Falcons for it.
Skittzo0413
Member
The name is so effective it's subliminally making everyone make the opposite choice... Dear god what have they done
I'd say a good episode, since the best ones are where horrible things happen.
I'd say a good episode, since the best ones are where horrible things happen.
Calm Mind
Member
Thank you!
EDIT: Also the extended trailer is at 2.7 million.. marketing people, is that good or not?
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
We just need one more and final test and thats to see if Nintendo can Switch their position in the market from dead last with Wii U to Switch
Movalpolos
Banned
Nobody at the bar I was at gave a single fuck about this commercial 
I was waiting for their reactions, and nothing...
I was waiting for their reactions, and nothing...
- Status