So that's why you never see many Nintendo commercials...

[CM30]

They've apparently spent a lot of money on TV advertising, but have so many different campaigns running at any one time that you won't see too many ads for any one product.

So they've got the equivalent of about 8.4 days of advertising running, but split across 16 campaigns (aka, they're advertising 16 different games this year). Meanwhile the likes of Activision have less ads running total, but it's all dedicated to Call of Duty hence the game ends up really well known/advertisements for it seen all the time.

See here:

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/feature-2012-s-biggest-tvadvertisers/096069

Maybe it would have been better if Nintendo only advertised one or two games a month, and hence made everyone more aware of games like Skyward Sword? That would have probably translated into far more sales to be honest...

 

[TheTEChguy27]

I almost never seem to see any Nintendo commercials... perhaps it's because I don't really go on channels aimed for kids, and I assume that's the age group that Nintendo is most concerned with. But I did see that one Progressive commercial with Sonic in it a few times. It made me laugh a lot.

 

[TheUltimateKoopa]

Sometimes I see ridiculously out-dated adverts. Like I might see an advert/commercial for Super Mario 3D Land as recently as say, today. While that's only a few months, I'm sure I've seen adverts for Brawl in 2011, or at least something of the same "time since it was released" thing.

 

[SupremeGameExpert]

But I did see that one Progressive commercial with Sonic in it a few times. It made me laugh a lot.

I only saw it once. But yeah they really should advertise less games that way I see the commercials for it more often.

 

[SpoonySage]

Huh. That may be true, but I still feel like I see Kid Icarus ads all the time on Youtube and other places online.

 

[Member]

I almost never seem to see any Nintendo commercials... perhaps it's because I don't really go on channels aimed for kids, and I assume that's the age group that Nintendo is most concerned with. But I did see that one Progressive commercial with Sonic in it a few times. It made me laugh a lot.

I saw that commercial too, but I don't remember when. I think it was in December 2011 or January 2012.

 

[GRK]

The only nintendo game commercial I remember seeing was pokemon diamond back in '08 then again I'm not watching TV that often....