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[JordiENP]

they had a 30 second ad 7 years ago

 

[Codes 208]

The super bowl was when they dropped the launch trailer since it was releasing in march.

They could do a shadow drop but honsetly its been ages since any gaming news of value was revealed at a superbowl.

March-april still sound like the more reasonable dates for a reveal

 

[Robb]

 

[Spyxos]

I don't think so, but the much more important question is. How expensive the Switch 2 will be.

 

[RAIDEN1]

I don't think so, but the much more important question is. How expensive the Switch 2 will be.

More like how powerful will it be...will it really be upto the level of PS4?

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

they had a 30 second ad 7 years ago

Yeah but this wasn't a reveal tho. It was just an ad of stuff we already knew about.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

The US is the only country that cares about the Superbowl, so I don't see a Japanese product intended for a global audience being revealed there.

 

[Spyxos]

More like how powerful will it be...will it really be upto the level of PS4?

Here

 

[Cert.in.Death]

SB ads for massive products are all about reaching the people you otherwise wouldn't. Nintendo knows how far their Directs reach and who belongs to their congregation, but is there value running a 30-60 second ad on TV for the folks who wouldn't see your Youtube presentations? I argue yes (especially since the commercial is going to immediately be uploaded to social media and fans will pick it apart for months).

But for it to be the first touch point of a product (i.e. initial reveal), I'm not sure that helps more than it hurts. It will simply drive a firestorm of questions to their marketing and customer service departments, which in turn will make them want to kill themselves.
Counter-point: to anyone who remembers the awful reveal of the original Switch, anything but that is a good thing, no?

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Here

I'm fine with those specs, I expect at least PS4/XBONE TFLOPS with more modern hardware including the RAM being DDR4

 

[Magic Carpet]

Well now I have a reason to watch the Super Bowl.

 

[VitoNotVito]

What's "super bowl"?

 

[calistan]

The US is the only country that cares about the Superbowl, so I don't see a Japanese product intended for a global audience being revealed there.

I always watch the Super Bowl, but since I'm in the UK I don't see any of these ads that people keep talking about. When there's an ad break for the Americans (every couple of minutes), it just cuts back to the studio.

There must be cheaper and more effective ways to announce a new console.

 

[Del_X]

Possible? Yes.
Likely? No.
Smart? Actually, yes. Seriously - Nintendo is completely mainstream and, in my household, has COMPLETELY taken the hearts of my kids akin to how Disney used to.

 

[AJUMP23]

Not a chance.

 

[RoadHazard]

Way too soon to start advertising it. Maybe next year. Then it'll already have been out for a few months, but yeah.