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Wow. I've seen a Viewtiful Joe 2 commercial. Yet no MGS3 commercial yet.
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Doc Holliday
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This game should have gotten the zelda and halo 2 treatment. I'm talking trailers at the theaters, esp during action flicks.
Doc Holliday said:This game should have gotten the zelda and halo 2 treatment. I'm talking trailers at the theaters, esp during action flicks.
You would think so. Of any game to get a theatrical style trailer this would be it.
Well, MGS:TS was just a remake of an extremely popular game, meaning, everyone who wanted it own(s)(ed)/rented the original. Kinda hard to sell a remake if the console it originally came on is also backwards compatible with the current sequel console and offers "enhanced" graphics.missAran said:It's odd. Konami doesn't market that well or that obviously, but still it manages to do all right. I wonder why that doesn't work for Nintendo.
What remake actually sold more than the original? Or even half of what the original did?
Littleberu
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luxsol said:What remake actually sold more than the original? Or even half of what the original did?
RE1 did actually IIRC.
Littleberu said:RE1 did actually IIRC.
I don't think so but I don't know where to find the numbers.
luxsol said:Well, MGS:TS was just a remake of an extremely popular game, meaning, everyone who wanted it own(s)(ed)/rented the original. Kinda hard to sell a remake if the console it originally came on is also backwards compatible with the current sequel console and offers "enhanced" graphics.
What remake actually sold more than the original? Or even half of what the original did?
I wasn't necessarily only talking about Twin Snakes. I mean, Konami, as shown above, doesn't market that agressively (nothing like Sony or Microsoft, for example), but its games do well. Nintendo does the same, and its games (not just MGS:TS) don't sell well. And frankly, it's not because its games are bad.
Well, Nintendo games sell alright too. Past games (Zelda, Metroid, Mario, Pokemon) that were pushed with aggressive marketting have sold over a million. Other games like Tennis or Golf titles are limited to the crowds that actually like those types of games. No matter how much you market them they're still only going to appeal to arcady sport fans. Compare these games to Konami's own cart/tennis/golf games (are they even released outside of Japan?) to see if commercials make a difference.missAran said:I wasn't necessarily only talking about Twin Snakes. I mean, Konami, as shown above, doesn't market that agressively (nothing like Sony or Microsoft, for example), but its games do well. Nintendo does the same, and its games (not just MGS:TS) don't sell well. And frankly, it's not because its games are bad.
I've seen the commercial for MGS3 in circulation on many channels tons of times. It has a little girl with a basket of flowers, and she's skipping around in her back yard where a stuffed animal tea party is set up. Everything's colorful and sweet. Then rock music breaks out as a guy in a Snake costume comes rolling into the yard. He looks all around himself like he's looking for enemies, then he sees the girl. He shoots at the girl, who throws her basket into the air and runs off. The girl got away safely, but Snake sees the basket flying through the air and shoots it. It explodes into a puff of petals, and Snake slyly looks at the camera and says, "Maybe next time." Then it shows a quick segment of choppy-edited game footage with rock music to which a voice-over exclaims "Espionage ain't pretty."
What Konami games sell well? Everything they have put out lately has bombed horribly.missAran said:I wasn't necessarily only talking about Twin Snakes. I mean, Konami, as shown above, doesn't market that agressively (nothing like Sony or Microsoft, for example), but its games do well. Nintendo does the same, and its games (not just MGS:TS) don't sell well. And frankly, it's not because its games are bad.
Maybe the YuGiOh crap sells, I don't know.
Shin Johnpv
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CVXFREAK said:Twin Snakes all over again
seriously that game could have done alot better if Konami did some advertising
anyway I've seen the VJ2 commercial alot actually
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
I'm not sure if you're joking, but that'd be the first time I've heard anyone's seen any MGS3 commercial. Souds zany though, I'd love to see it.I've seen the commercial for MGS3 in circulation on many channels tons of times.
Are you kidding me? MGS2 had so much advertising that I must've seen that TV commercial hundreds of times. I don't expect them to advertise 3 as much (after all, Sony was co advertising MGS2 with them) but they should give it more exposure. If they think it'll sell on hype alone, I don't think it will - not many games ever had hype comparable to MGS2, and 3 certainly doesn't...I don't remember MGS2 commercials until months after it came out
Marconelly said:I'm not sure if you're joking, but that'd be the first time I've heard anyone's seen any MGS3 commercial. Souds zany though, I'd love to see it.
There is a MGS3 commercial. Saw it several times last night, on Comedy Central, Spike and MTV.
It just shows a lot of the cutscenes spliced in together with a voicer over that says "Only 1 man for that job" and it ends with the MGS3 logo on a steel background, Snake shooting the RPG and the voice over says "Peace.....by any means necessary".
It's more like the MGS2 commercial than anything, except longer.
jett said:I wonder if this game will hit 1 million units in USA...
I reckon it'll be near a million by the end of December.
Obviously we watch different channels (I missed all the MGS2 and 3 commercials while you're missing out on the MGS3 ones). I actually only remember Xbox MGS2:S commercials but have vague feeling I had already seen some before that. It's sad to see that most of these commercials only come out on basic/extended cable channels instead of the more mainstream broadcasting networks. That ones that are shown on broadcast networks are usually reserved for children's shows slots.Marconelly said:I'm not sure if you're joking, but that'd be the first time I've heard anyone's seen any MGS3 commercial. Souds zany though, I'd love to see it.
Are you kidding me? MGS2 had so much advertising that I must've seen that TV commercial hundreds of times. I don't expect them to advertise 3 as much (after all, Sony was co advertising MGS2 with them) but they should give it more exposure. If they think it'll sell on hype alone, I don't think it will - not many games ever had hype comparable to MGS2, and 3 certainly doesn't...
Ferrarisimo
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evil ways said:There is a MGS3 commercial. Saw it several times last night, on Comedy Central, Spike and MTV.
It just shows a lot of the cutscenes spliced in together with a voicer over that says "Only 1 man for that job" and it ends with the MGS3 logo on a steel background, Snake shooting the RPG and the voice over says "Peace.....by any means necessary".
It's more like the MGS2 commercial than anything, except longer.
Yup, saw it for the first time today on Comedy Central.