20th September 2004, 12:06 PM
Nintendo's whole way of handling the MP2 demo disc distribution is so incredibly inane and idiotic that it's difficult for me to think of any bizarre reasoning on their behalf for doing it this way.
Nintendo makes a demo disc for Metroid Prime 2 because that's a good way of advertising your games. There really isn't a better way of making people want to buy your game than letting them actually play it. There really isn't. So obviously, one can conclude, the demo was made to garner interest in the title and let people who aren't guaranteed to buy the game become interested in it. Makes absolute sense, right? Okay, so how do they decide to distribute the demo discs? By making people register their Gamecube and five eligible Nintendo titles... basically something only a hardcore Nintendo fan would want to waste their time on... who is probably the only type of gamer guaranteed to buy Metroid Prime 2 with or without having played the demo. ...*blinks* Instead of doing something like say, packaging the demo disc for free in an issue of their official gaming magazine Nintendo Power, or packaging the game with one of their big Gamecube titles like Four Swords Adventures or Pikmin 2 so that more casual gamers can get a chance to see how great MP2 is, they make it so that only the most hardcore Nintendo fans will be able to get it. Woah, what a genius marketing plan!! No wonder Nintendo is number fucking three in the console race.
Their marketing incompetence never ceases to amaze me. It really doesn't.
Nintendo makes a demo disc for Metroid Prime 2 because that's a good way of advertising your games. There really isn't a better way of making people want to buy your game than letting them actually play it. There really isn't. So obviously, one can conclude, the demo was made to garner interest in the title and let people who aren't guaranteed to buy the game become interested in it. Makes absolute sense, right? Okay, so how do they decide to distribute the demo discs? By making people register their Gamecube and five eligible Nintendo titles... basically something only a hardcore Nintendo fan would want to waste their time on... who is probably the only type of gamer guaranteed to buy Metroid Prime 2 with or without having played the demo. ...*blinks* Instead of doing something like say, packaging the demo disc for free in an issue of their official gaming magazine Nintendo Power, or packaging the game with one of their big Gamecube titles like Four Swords Adventures or Pikmin 2 so that more casual gamers can get a chance to see how great MP2 is, they make it so that only the most hardcore Nintendo fans will be able to get it. Woah, what a genius marketing plan!! No wonder Nintendo is number fucking three in the console race.
Their marketing incompetence never ceases to amaze me. It really doesn't.