Critical Hit | Where is Nintendo in the UK - What is Wii U?

I don't have a TV subscription, so I wouldn't know... I do know that I'm quite happy with my U and have more grat games than I can play at the moment. Such a shame that it's not picking up sales yet. Maybe around christmas?

I saw one for Super Mario 3D World in an X Factor break.

Aw, no "No, I don't watch TV." option?

I saw one on ITV this morning, it's the only one I've seen in a month. They have posters and stuff up in Westfield Stratford, but nothing most seem to take note of since most of the shops have been promoting the PS4 and XBOne from their releases. They really have made a poor attempt since OfCom took their launch ad off the air last year.

I saw ads for Wii Party U a lot (English w/ French subtitles) recently on general TV channels, and for Wind Waker HD on a channel that targets Japanese anime fans primarily. But for the console itself, highlighting its uniqueness, and the library in general, no, I haven't. And most commercials for third party games I saw don't even acknowledge that the game is coming to Wii U, I see mentions of PS3/360, and now as is the case with Fifa 14, of the XBox One, but Wii U, never!

( Edited 03.12.2013 18:58 by RudyC3 )

I consider myself in the generation where Internet is my main source of entertainment, i dont watch tv nor do i read magazines and although alittle sad, i dont really go out alot outside of work. What im saying is if there were a way for advertisement to reach me it would be though the interenet, anything else would be an unwelcome accident. i Cannot recall seeing any internet advertisement for a long time, infact the last i can remember that ever had any inpact was the Wario Shake it page on youtube years ago, and that was only viewable by intentionally looking for it.

So no, ive not seen any nintendo advertisments where they would reach me, ive been plenty of xbox and playstation however. I cannot be the only hardcore nintendo fan in the same situation either.

Uhm...... FIFA 14 isn't coming to Wii U. It was released on 3DS but that was just an updated rerelease of FIFA 13.

Right?

There've been quite a few Mario adverts on youtube at the moment to be fair.

Cheesing it up said:
There've been quite a few Mario adverts on youtube at the moment to be fair.

You beat me too it! I don't know if my cookies/history or whatver Google uses to track me is set to Nintendo stuff but I do get a fair few 3DS and Wii U adverts at the start of my YouTube vids. 

I think marketing is generally seen as advertising, any good marketer would tell you that this is just an element of marketing. Marketing is strategy, and quite frankly as you have highlighted Nintendo have a scattered approach. I don't like how Nintendo Directs are seemingly announced 24 hours before they are aired, releases are not hyped or built up about (SM3DW being the exception here), lacking of promotions or offers that can be seen by the mainstream public.

Nintendo have banked on complacency, someone in the R&D team should be shot, calling Wii Mini is a shambolic attempt at extending the life of a console, the 2DS is a terrible and confusing name, the Wii U is even worse! They would have been better calling it Wii 2. Nintendo's online infrastructure and account management is nowhere on par with the competition which is frustrating even the hardcore fanbase. Where Nintendo innovate in one area they drastically fall far behind in other areas that we expect to be the standard norm. 

They can't even pull of the Virtual Console right! No Gamepad support at launch... hell a selected and tiny list of games to choose from?? Considering they heftily overcharge its incredible that they don't wack up all the games from the past!

The Wii U will be 3rd in this race unless they create quite literally the best game that the planet has ever seen! It doesn't mean that the games will be shit though, I loved the N64/GC era when most hated it! I even liked the 1st party Wii offering. I have no doubt that Mario Kart 8, SSB etc etc will be gleeming with quality....the shame of it all is that only a mere handful will ever know....

Aside from third party, the games are here - Mario, Pikmin, 2D Mario, Wii Sports, Rayman Legends etc etc - really solid, good games.

Problem is general consumers don't know the difference between Wii and Wii U, but PS4 makes sense. It's sequential. Still think the naming and marketing are what's really causing problems for the Wii U. At least the 3DS has a number in it - the average consumer may assume it's the third in the DS range, or something.

Funnily enough though, saw 3 Mario ads tonight in the space of 2 hours... interesting!

If you like Nintendo on Facebook then your friends will start seeing ads for Nintendo in their feeds.

https://www.facebook.com/Nintendo
https://www.facebook.com/NintendoConsoleGaming
https://www.facebook.com/NintendoHandheldGaming

I was thinking... Xbox One doesn't have a better name than Wii U. It could even be considered worse, because people might think it's the predecessor to the 360. And it's still selling like crazy.

Is that because that one is aimed at the hardcore gamers, and hardcore gamers follow the news? While the U is partly aimed at the casual market, who have no clue? I guess the good thing is that those casuals probably also won't be buying a PS4 (yet).

Gotta say, tonight, in one hour, I saw 3 different Wii U adverts on TV! Wii Fit U (the Steffi Graff and André Agassi one), Wii Party U and Super Mario 3D World. So, right now, in the run up to the holidays, there certainly is some presence. I also saw a Link Between Worlds ad in the same time span a Mario Kart 7 one, and also a Luigi's Mansion one.

Nintendo seems to be pushing it a bit harder over here at least for the holidays, but it should be all year round really. Have barely seen any PS4 ads though (the only one I saw wasn't even showing any actual games) and very little XBox One either.

Do they even sell XB1 in Belgium? Because they don't in Holland.

Canyarion said:
Do they even sell XB1 in Belgium? Because they don't in Holland.