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Nintendo Switch Super Bowl Commercial
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LegalEagleMike
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Make Nintendo Great Again.
Dark Cloud
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What?? I just watched it like half hour ago and it was less than 3 million.
Mihael Mello Keehl
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That bum from bitblock is gonna love this shit
Schopenhauerian
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Not much to go on, but searches for Nintendo and Nintendo Switch seem to have gone up by a greater percentage than searches for Zelda:
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=now 1-d&q=nintendo,nintendo switch,zelda
Search Interest Over Time
9:24PM EST
Zelda - 3
Nintendo - 15
Nintendo Switch 10
9:32PM EST
Zelda 15 (400% increase)
Nintendo 100 (567% increase)
Nintendo Switch 83 (730% increase)
http://imgur.com/a/ViogL
EDIT: Better Data
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=now 4-H&q=nintendo,nintendo switch,zelda
9:36PM EST
Zelda 1
Nintendo 4
Nintendo Switch 3
9:37PM
Zelda - 13 (1200% increase)
Nintendo - 100 (2400% increase)
Nintendo Switch - 86 (2767% increase)
http://imgur.com/a/2Mi4P
Skittzo0413
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Ugh never wanna see this picture again. Can't even bring myself to keep the image in the quoted post.
We are using the wrong origin point for this timeline. It started with the Cubs bringing us into the darkest timeline.
DecoReturns
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How appropriate that the joycons are Blue and Red.
Dark Cloud
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Oh ok 👌🏾
Its Quite Toasty
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if you scratch away at the switch logo you can find the words Pandora's box scrawled underneath.
Spyder_Monkey
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No, because I'm living in it.
And San Junipero, the only one with a happy ending is the best one.
Movalpolos
Banned
Hilarious. Somehow it works though.
Skittzo0413
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Playtest is my favorite, but yeah San Junipero is pretty good. You're right though, no one wants to live in a Black Mirror episode.
Damn you Nintendo and your suddenly brilliant subliminal advertising!
Movalpolos
Banned
Much like Trump, Nintendo has a distorted world-view.
Hyperactivity
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Before the Switch:
- Cavs end 50+ year cleveland drought, Lebron wins one for the land, after being down 3-1, 73-9 Warriors lose after being up 3-1 and making comments like "I hope they can still smell the champagne", J.R. motherfuckin' Smith wins a ring and goes shirtless for the rest of time.
- Cubs end a 100+ year drought, after being down 3-1
After the Switch:
- Trump wins
- Patriots win
God dammit I thought I loved you nintendo...
- Cavs end 50+ year cleveland drought, Lebron wins one for the land, after being down 3-1, 73-9 Warriors lose after being up 3-1 and making comments like "I hope they can still smell the champagne", J.R. motherfuckin' Smith wins a ring and goes shirtless for the rest of time.
- Cubs end a 100+ year drought, after being down 3-1
After the Switch:
- Trump wins
- Patriots win
God dammit I thought I loved you nintendo...
CharminUltra
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Sunday 2/5 just before 4th quarter started:
Original: 765k
Extended: 2,671,000
Sunday 2/5 8:49PM PT (right now):
Original: 783,390
Extended: 2,966,791
I checked because I was bored at the time lol
Original: 765k
Extended: 2,671,000
Sunday 2/5 8:49PM PT (right now):
Original: 783,390
Extended: 2,966,791
I checked because I was bored at the time lol
Do you forget there are 64 million 3ds this gen + 13 million. WIiU - I don't think Nintendo is last by any stretch of the imagination.
Cubs won after that Switch reveal though...
Tom Nook
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For those wondering why the switch hate after the game:
Falcons lost because of the poor play calling in the 4th qtr. They were in FG range so instead of running the ball, they decide to throw it. Matt Ryan got sacked and fumbled the ball. This change the momentum for the Pats to score two TDs and two 2pt converstions to put the game into overtime. Falcons secondary defense was just horrible in the last 7 mins or so, which they were all season. It's just so happen the Nintendo Commercial was played before all that. The worst timing for a commercial to be played, it could've been any commercial and outcome is the same.
Falcons lost because of the poor play calling in the 4th qtr. They were in FG range so instead of running the ball, they decide to throw it. Matt Ryan got sacked and fumbled the ball. This change the momentum for the Pats to score two TDs and two 2pt converstions to put the game into overtime. Falcons secondary defense was just horrible in the last 7 mins or so, which they were all season. It's just so happen the Nintendo Commercial was played before all that. The worst timing for a commercial to be played, it could've been any commercial and outcome is the same.
Hyperactivity
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Damn, makes it even worse. It nearly happened. Cleveland nearly had 2 championships to break its drought, and Ohio would've been so ecstatic that it would've listened to LeBron when he endorsed Clinton, and then that would've created a chain effect across the rest of the midwest.
Damn nintendo...
Sammy Samusu
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Well I was at a bar too and people only reacted to that ad with lots of funny accidents. Other than that it was all about the game and nothing else. Lady Gaga was also paid dust.Nobody at the bar I was at gave a single fuck about this commercial
I was waiting for their reactions, and nothing...
MHWilliams
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If it's not directly about Nintendo's Super Bowl commercial, leave it out of the thread. This is your warning. Thank you.
Those are some pretty big jumps
People talking about the switch is a win in Nintendo's book.
30yearsofhurt
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Ad was pretty meh.
Lee Chaolan
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Crazyorloco
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lmao. Everything is reversed now. anything is possible now.
The game was boring before the Nintendo Switch Ad.
Everything got way more interesting after the Ad. Thank you Nintendo.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Nobody at the bar I was at gave a single fuck about this commercial
I was waiting for their reactions, and nothing...
orthodoxy1095
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So off-topic jokes are now banned in threads about video game adverts?
I'm looking forward to this finally being enforced! It should really help us raise the level of discourse around here!
BlastProcessing
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Nobody at the bar I was at gave a single fuck about this commercial
I was waiting for their reactions, and nothing...
Did you even try to start a cheer yourself? Flawed data point.
Look at his post history.
Game basically ended right there at the bolded imho. Knocked them out of FG range and the penalty on the next play only added to the damage. I'm 50/50 on whether or not they should have aired the extended commercial. Probably would have cost them a mint
Nobody at the bar I was at gave a single fuck about this commercial
I was waiting for their reactions, and nothing...
Pretending that it actually exists, I wonder if a nostalgic NES Classic commercial would've gotten more interest. Not that I'm suggested they should've ran one, but I noticed there was a lack of nostalgia-pandering in the Super Bowl Ads this year and maybe it could've done better because of it.
SinCityAssassin
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Nobody at the bar I was at gave a single fuck about this commercial
I was waiting for their reactions, and nothing...
That's your room, mate. You were alone in there.
UNLESS THERE WAS A GhhHHHhHHHHoooOOOOOOOooOOSSsSSsST
orthodoxy1095
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Not saying you're wrong, but what do you think a commercial like that would have looked like? I'm not sure what you're envisioning.
Nobody at the bar I was at gave a single fuck about this commercial
I was waiting for their reactions, and nothing...
Serious question, why do you make it your job to shit post about the Switch? I normally wouldn't even notice but I've seen your avatar enough to actually recognize it.
shackdaddy836
Banned
Nobody at the bar I was at gave a single fuck about this commercial
I was waiting for their reactions, and nothing...
That's cus you needed to start the conversation:
"Wow, that commercial really made me want to SWITCH! R...right guys?"
Crazyorloco
Member
Speak volumes. They frequently post negatively on the switch.
Anyway, I wonder how many people viewed the superbowl, to get an idea on how many saw the ad.
Exactly lmao, like it's just sad at this point
MHWilliams
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If you have a problem with the direction of a thread or specific post, PM a mod. We'll decide on a case-by-case basis.
Pretty much like anything else on the forum.
InfiniteCombo
Banned
How were you bored watching one of the most exciting football games in recent history? I'm no Patriots fan, but god damn did they deserve that win after all that!
On topic: the people I was watching the game with skipped right over the commercial. They didn't even care.
CharminUltra
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1) Don't really care about sports
2) It was before the tide... uh... switched
ArcaneFreeze
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Soooo he wasn't even at a bar, gotcha.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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I had my girlfriend watch the extended commercial after watching the 30 second spot to get her opinion as a (relative) outsider. She thought the full-length ad was pretty solid and really sold the overall platform, whereas the TV spot made it too easy to ignore the console and just focus on Zelda, and thus generally wasn't very strong. Which is pretty much exactly as I felt. And considering that most of the casual viewers will only ever see that 30 second spot on TV, and the bulk of the 3 million extended version views were likely from the 2 million people who already pre-ordered the Switch (as well as those who were already aware of the console but haven't yet/won't secure one) I'm not sure how successful these spots will be in the end. But I'm interested to see more definitive numbers tomorrow.
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