Today's video game TV ads suck. Here are the 6 types of ads that need to go.
Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."
The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.
i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.
nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.
people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly
mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.
zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.
nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.
its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.
but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.
Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.
The developers have provided a little band-aid while PlayStation players attempt to get back into MW3.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
agree with the cut-scenes ones. go away now!
I'm actually rather fond of the second and sixth types, but they need to be done right to work.
Most hated: Motion control trailers...
I never like the Live Action ones...I mean it's trying to sell a game and they show no gameplay or cutscenes to show what the game is actually like.
Take the Skyrim one for example that was aired in the UK (don't know about the rest of the world), it was only long after the game came out they had a better, gameplay advert showing how awesome the game is.
Yeah just screw advertising because things sell without advertising on pure word of mouth...
by definition...Uncharted doesn't need to be in the first category..
and The "artsy" category only being filled up by one video game?..really?..stretch much?..(Gears is a franchise so it's ONE video game)
and it was a great trailer.."artsy" or not..movies do it all the time when there's a fire fight going on..someone being tortured..or a town being swept away in a global catastrophic event and all you hear is classical music..so the fact that a video game has done this...(in apparently an obvious over saturation with just two video games) doesn't quantify it for the list..
the "pretty cut scenes" one isn't really worth mentioning..if you play videos..i dunno..at all?..you'll know what's capable on current consoles and computers..
this isn't the 90's where we didn't know any better and the lack of internet media had us wondering, what might be next?.
motion controls..
what..you want them to sit down?..they're showing you that all you need is the move or kinect..no sitting down using a controller..if you have a better idea of getting that message out..please..impart your wisdom oh creator of original ideas..
and the two last one's haven't even been around long enough to be overused..wtf?
a better idea for an article would've been "Ratings, why they don't matter to you"..or if you wanted to stick to the topic of overuses why not "Where has originality gone in video games?"..
and at the end...really?..you need a trailer to renew your hope for the video game industry?..that's just ridiculous to the point of being insulting.