23rd October 2008, 9:46 PM
Did you guys see the commercial for Mario Kart, or the DS, or just Nintendo as a concept, or whatever it was for?
It was... painful... It had some people who we are not playing games in very annoying ways with the winner of a Mario Kart race doing this.... grunt... that I think means "I beat you". Also they were tilting the DS as though that made a difference.
The worst part was it was done in the "this is totally how real people act" sort of way, in that clearly commercial makers have no idea how real people act.
I guess Nintendo is doing very well now, but wow their commercials are definitely not aimed at me.
It was... painful... It had some people who we are not playing games in very annoying ways with the winner of a Mario Kart race doing this.... grunt... that I think means "I beat you". Also they were tilting the DS as though that made a difference.
The worst part was it was done in the "this is totally how real people act" sort of way, in that clearly commercial makers have no idea how real people act.
I guess Nintendo is doing very well now, but wow their commercials are definitely not aimed at me.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)