Guys we were wrong. Nintendo IS marketing.

They just haven't realized furniture stores are the wrong places to market video games.

http://mynintendonews.com/2013/11/05/play-new-levels-of-super-mario-3d-world-at-select-us-pottery-barn-teen-stores/

On one hand, this could get casuals and random furniture shoppers to take a look at the Wii U. On the other hand, they are advertising at a fucking furniture store where people go to buy furniture and not games. FFS at least try Best Buy or Target or something!

Plus the Wii Mini and disabling SwapNote, so many STUPID decisions lately.

Wtf is wrong with Nintendo?!

I don't think Nintendo has a problem with reaching their target audience. I work at schools and I know the sites that the kids go to have TONS of Nintendo advertising. Reaching the parents that actually buy the consoles is a different story but then again you know they would wait till the holidays to get one for their kid. I think Wii U will only do well around holidays.

Nintendo......lol

@AtariKidX

What happened to Nintendo's Wii marketing team? All on vacation leave?

disabling swapnote? really? why? Not that I ever used it, but I haven't touched my 3ds since August when I got SMTIV

Good for you, man

wtf is pottery barn?

I wouldn't of beleived that had I not read the article..hahaha

Well, since Mario is a family friendly gaming name for who knows how long. I'd have an issue if they were advertising Bayonetta 2 like that, though.

A Pottery barn like environment is actually a decent place to try this out at since it's comfy and simulates a living room well. Problem is they didn't do this in many stores, and I bet they aren't very high traffic stores either.

Not sure how much of the Wiis success is down to marketing, I think a big part of it was the gimmick/fad factor. Nintendo just needed to give it a basic push. The Wii marketing wasn't much better than the GC, Nintendo called it the Wii, they were hardly doing the best of jobs helping it along.

@ManInFlames: It's a barn where they make pottery lol.

More proof that Nintendo is ill in the head

Just as much as you Kaszilla

Lol wii u

Nintendo will finish dead last this gen.

Agreed

I'm not a sheep

@Netret0120: Hopefully!

Wii eww.......lol

It's not their fault they are just confused right now. Part of Nintendo wants to keep marketing to the casuals (the ones that left them a few years ago for tablets) and hope they get lucky like they did with the Wii. Which I believe they are wasting their time and money.

The other half wants to bring the core Nintendo experience back with games that old Nintendo fans know and love. Games like X, Mario 3D world, and Fire emblem X Shin Megami Tensei is proof of this.

This is what happens when your whole company is managed by 60 year olds. Next Zelda will probably be displayed at selected Farms and Barns across USA at this point...

RIP in piece, Nintendo. A mere shell of their former selves

I remember when nintendo was trying to launch and sell the GameCube, they were throwing parties and giving away free booze. I went to the club event in my area and got bombed, and played all the new games for free.Those were the days, they need to get back to doing that.

Denying the truth :(

Problem is not if they do marketing or not, the problem imo is they have nothing interesting to do marketing on...

It makes sense, and it doesn't make sense. Much like that sentence.