Marketing Week - 06-Dec-07:
"Nintendo, the gaming giant, has been forced to pull ads for its Wii console in the run up to Christmas as demand is already too high.
The campaign for Wii, created by Karmarama, will be replaced by ads for its handheld console, Nintendo DS.
The company says that it has been forced to pull the ads because retailers have been running out of consoles and it would be irresponsible to continue with the campaign."
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
Well, that makes sense. Marketing campaigns are used to increase demand for a product, but the Wii already has a large excess demand. So unless they want to increase the price of Wiis so that the demand matches the current supply available, there is no point in paying for those ads. Those ads were basically just driving up the price of Wiis on Ebay.
nintendo still did something bad... keep the ads running.. so no one even think about the ps3 or xbox360 for that matters..... nintendo needs to keep the wii's coming
why won't anybody see the truth
They didn't need to pull the adverts, they could have simply changed it to
Nintendo Wii, good luck getting one this close to Christmas
there advertising campaign has really done it for them they showed games and people having fun with a motion controller..
just a shame that there not a hardware company so they cant make as many as Sony or Microsoft...
personally i thought about the wii but i've heard the gimmick wears off really quickly...