Penguin101

Games Wii can play together (shows family playing party games)

Games U can play on your own (shows older man playing ZombiU on GamePad with kids in room, as well as other mature titles).

Nice!  already more effort than i've seen from the Nintendo team.  Great choice of tunes although not sure Nintendo would pony up for Queen rights.  One critique i would say would be possibly have all of the titles slide in or bolt toward you with a a nice transisition as you did for most of the 3rd parties near the end.  Changing the white lettering on the red bar during the 1st party showcase just didn't pop enough to let the viewer know you've cut to another title.  Even if it just swapped which side of the screen the red arrow came from, it would probably distiguish the fact you're showing yet another game... which i'd imagine is a main priority is to quell the misconception that the system has very few games... and of course bring to attention that the console exists to the rest of the world which.... well, i'm not sure how to go about that better.  Nintendo shot itself in the foot with that "Wii" U thing... still hoping the just drop it to the "U" in future ad campaigns to end the confusion.   Kinda like the NES... rare to find someone use the full "Nintendo Entertainment System" (or, likewise, call the Famicom by it's original name of the Family Computer). 

Great choice of tunes although not sure Nintendo would pony up for Queen rights.

I was listening to my dad's iPod a while ago and found a great tune that for some reason I just instantly thought would work really well for a Wii U advert actually it's a pretty old and a lot less well known than queen, so I'm sure the rights wouldn't be half as expensive:

Going further into the topic it dawned upon me just HOW important a catchy, unique song is when I heard an advert using the same song as another advert from a couple months ago. Instantly I started thinking about the other advert instead of the one on TV, and if you think about it, a lot of times, if you get up to do something during ad break and you hear a song to an ad you know, you just instantly think of the rest of the ad.
I think that song has a lot of potential to create that sort of effect, especially since no one else is using it right now.

Idk why that ended up sounding like a pitch XD

Anyway,...

 

I made a mockup of the ad without people, I might tweak it here and there tonight, but it'd be great to hear some feedback. Yes I do have regrets on the video, but it's too late to go back and correct the mistakes

 

 

That was great. Only problem, of course is that the ad would be way too long to actually show on tv. BUT it would be really easy to break up into the three sections, in which case, with a little more cutting it would work fine time-wise, and then the different sections could be targeted to different channels (Spike, and similar channels for the "hardcore' a, Cartoon network, disney etc. for the "family" ads).

But once again I guess it doesn't matter since nintendo hates ads

If I had premier and knew how o use it, I would probably just make an advert, maybe try to make it go viral to try and do my part :/
EDIT: Also, I agree with making it pop more when you switch games. I was even thinking, at the end part, you could just make it scroll really quickly, it could make people think there are even more games than there are (If I can think of an actual example of what I mean, I'll post it later), the only problem being that it would be harder for people to recognize the titles.

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^ FBI coming to your door

 

 

This club...not reinforcing stereotypes of women gamers is it. No not at all.

Hot cakes eh?
Last I looked the Wii U had a higher install base than either of the other two current gen consoles.

The consumer is saying they like games.

 

Well i knew someone would post something like this. 3 months in and the ps4 has outsold Wii U in NA. How much longer do you think that install base lead is going to last. with 3dworld and a two hundred dollard difference the xbox one outsold it in america for december. I am not here to bash Wii U because i have one and love it... but numbers like these shouldnt be ignored.

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well that was just so bland the first 30 minutes of it were so boring to watch the only thing that made this direct interesting was the X gameplay 

for people who had stream problems watch it on youtube next time it's much smoother than Ustream

   

 

I don't even know what to say except:

 

I give up.

 

The only thing that excited me was Little Mac, MK8, Bayonetta 2, X (which we STILL don't know the name)

 

FFS, we still have no info on SMT x FE or Yarn Yoshi. 

worst direct ever

The Nintendo Direct will start with an announcement that both X and Bayonetta 2 have been canceled. They will follow that up with twenty minutes of footage and info of Donkey Kong Country Returns Tropical Freeze, once again revealing Cranky Kong's playable status, as if it hasn't been revealed a billion times already. They will then show Super Smash Bros. 4, revealing that Pichu and Dr. Mario are coming back, and that their movesets are completely unchanged from Melee. They will also announce that Mewtwo will not be returning, with an image showing Lucario laughing. They will end the ND by revealing Wii Music U.

 

Well... My point is, don't get too hyped. This is Nintendo we're talking about.

Really? It takes 12 seconds longer?

This is TERRIBLE!!!!!!IOY!HI!*(!^!^

Seriously? It takes 12 seconds longer to load 42x more data from disc, using 1024 MB of ram instead of the 24 Mb 1tsram dkcr used, and people are crapping themselves? Why do you people think the wii, the least powerful system of last gen, had the MOST games with 'no load times' by a landslide? I still remember waiting 3 minutes for the last of us to load to start/continue playing. You know, back when my ps3 wasnt a useless paper weight that just gives me the crappy yellow light like it was its middle finger.

Whatever, good, dont buy the game. Reinforce the message people are tired of being oversaturated with platformers. If you people want to be idiotic morons at least I can use you to get what I want.

So Nintendo is doomed, right? I heard they were doomed.

 

I'm pretty sure they're doomed because...because.

Knuckles missed leg day.

Thats ok, he came in twice for chest and bicepts day.

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Knuckles missed leg day.