Nintendo's Newest Wii U Ad: 'Wii U Is An All New Console!'

It's actually a good ad, but it's, like, a year too late.

Also, it's very funny how explicitly Nintendo has to spell this out to clear the brand confusion. They fucked up big time here.

EDIT: **** you Glitchspot.

Here's a link to the video, because Gamespot is clearly affronted by my existence.

90% of my posts don't work anymore at this site, I'm surprised if this goes through.

Your OP lacks content and is blank on my end after two sentences, fyi.

Yeah, no vid.

GS is glitching out, I guess. Ha! Just like old times. They're bringing back the old design.

Char, this fail further solidifies the fact that you're the human equivalent of the Wii U.

@Xaero_Gravity: be quiet, OUYA.

That U should have been a 2.

@bbkkristian:

Sorry, Gizmondo.

Lol the irony behind this

I put in the link, let me know if it works.

IT WORKS!!! Char you are LEGEND!!!

If they would have had that as the original trailer, less confusion would have happened. There still would have been confusion though seeing as how they didn't show the console at e3 but it would have been alot less confusion.

Damn, they had to try so hard with that ad. Seems like the brand confusion is worse than I thought.

It's a shame something like this couldn't have existed and been put on tv and internet ads back when the WiiU first launched, Nintendo really messed up with the marketing.

AND THIS

walmart is trying to hype wiiU as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ1ttgstb24

@Xaero_Gravity: To be fair, it's pretty damn hard to market something that you have to experience in person.

No it's not, they just did it.

So is this an actual commercial? Or did they only just upload it to their YT channel?

Is it just me or did they fumble about so much they even failed to make it clear it's a new console? They called it a new technology. Well so was the mega cd.

Although I do think the name problem has been heavily overstated. People largely know it's a new console: they just don't want one.

This is embarrassing. I like how they emphasis that's in a new Wii console with new technology.

They missed an awesome marketing/logo opportunity of using the Roman numeral "II" in place of the"ii" in Wii.

As for the advertisement, as the old saying goes, better late than never. I think the Wii-U will still do fine but Nintendo really needs to stop fucking their launches/launch windows. Two botched launches in a row (3DS and Wii-U) is not a good trend.

This is as painful to watch as VGX. Atrociousness at best...

Lol that's good. Would've been good if they could make it into a 30 second video to play on TV, but oh well. I love the ending, "just look for the U on the box!" :P

These morons should've done this over a year ago.

If only they could go back in time and rename their console and like, up the specs while they were at it. This wouldn't even be necessary,

Right now it's a web only ad, but I assume they'll cut it down to TV length too- that's what they did with their 'This is not DS, it's Nintendo 3DS' ads

Nah, the video makes it very clear it's a new console.

I do, however, think you touch upon a really important point- that being that, outside of a very core, niche dedicated fanbase, the Wii U (much like the Vita) appears to be a product that is fundamentally unappealing to the market.

thank god they stopped calling it an damn upgrade

Super Wii

Seriously why the **** not? Is it because they didn't want fans to predict the name? cuz Nintendo is dumb? who knows.

This ad makes it seem like Nintendo thought their first year would be awesome based off Wii sales. Now that the competition is about to overtake the market, NOW they advertise...

ugh, so stupid.

i'm still a Nintendo fan for life though. :D

Not bad, I guess. It's a little late, but it's never too late.

LMAO that's because that's how his post really was.

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Well it's about damn Time. Better late than Never.

They should have had an add like this a lot earlier. It even talked about Miiverse which I feel they should have put far more emphasis on. That feature should resonate with a vast audience.

A great informational advertisement that is just a incredibly late to the party.

They've had some pretty solid ads running on television too now, ones that are showcasing the games and targeted towards the younger audience unlike this online ad.

And they shouldn't have taken as long as they did with the 3DS and when they did the "it's not a DS" (or something like that) campaign, but what can you do?

I love how they STILL don't just say "A brand new Nintendo console" it's always like "brand new technology!".

Don't they say it's a brand new Nintendo console right at the beginning?

"A whole new Nintendo experience!"

"WiiU is a whole new technology, and true successor to Wii!"

To be fair you'd have to be mad not to know they were saying it's a new console after all that but it annoys me that they won't just say it's a new console like they'd be admitting defeat or something.

Well yeah, that's true lol. I guess at this point it's just a matter of semantics.

The advert is boring, the guy's voice sound boring..why even say "true successor"? Was there a fake successor? that I didn't know about. :p

How is it new when it's been out for so long?

All new console. As in it's not the Wii. It's a new, different thing.

Nope, it's just the return of all the old crap along with all the new crap.

Ahhh OK.

Nintendo's, living in their bubble, probably inadvertently just become aware that people don't understand that the Wii U is a new system. Why else would it take so long to do this? I hope this ad isn't too big of an expenditure, Iwata.

Is that a joke....??That it was horrible.WiiU is a joke.

Nintendo should stop making consoles imho , put all the efforts and money to push 3DS further since they are kings in handheld gaming and make all their top notch consoles games , multiplatform.

I think if Nintendo ever goes that way will make way more $$ .

Nintendo knows what they are doing. mark my words wii u will be selling like hot cakes by this time next year.

And once again, the overestimation of Nintendo's handheld department continues, as well as the mentioning of "THAT" sell out move that would only end up making it worse.