Would the Spirit Camera Commercial be better if Nintendo hadn't stated it was a commercial?

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I think it would have been a bit cooler if Nintendo had picked a different Youtube channel name for it than 'Cursed Memoir'

Then they could have pretended it was some real supernatural horror/mystery story and then got a ridiculous amount more attention on the internet.

Think about this for a minute. Many times a story is said to be 'real' as viral marketing, the media coverage goes through the roof. Look at creepypasta stories like Ben Drowned or that Lavender Town Syndrome thing. Or in other media. Here's an old example of an 'unknown' celebrity blog which become a sort of phenomenon because no one knew who was writing it and speculation went wild:

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/rance/

If Nintendo had pretended this Cursed Memoir stuff was real, it could have hit the front page of various national news sources for a few days, likely Digg/Slashdot/Stumbleupon, been all over 4chan for a while and ended up covered on Snopes and the Museum of Hoaxes. Literally, I'd bet if they'd said it was real the Youtube channel would have ended up as being a hundred or even a thousand times more popular in terms of subscribers, comments, general attention, etc.

What do you think?
 
Yeah, but I think I would be less interested because I would think of all the hoax movies like Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity, etc that presented themselves as real only to disappoint people when they found out it was a lie. Nintendo doesn't lie to us. Personally, I think they are handling it well; they have to be careful to make it seem scary for the adults who play but not so terrifying that the advertising alone doesn't get it banned (like MadWorld was before).
 
I want to play this game but after seeing the two commercials I'm kinda scared too XD like seriously I feel like I might end up with nightmares. The commercials seem so legit that I didn't care if it was a commercial or not, I just want a damn movie to be produced in relation to this <_< I'd throw my money at them for a movie like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxoPMhATvwI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgDp4U4iJzQ
 
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