@Slim_Lyrics @StonerDemon Ill check it out for sure (thanks for telling me about gt), but remember that its all a matter of giving the site a good brand name. If the name is not capable of luring people, all that great content will remain in shadows. Think big here, we talk about thousands of people, with thousands of options to click on. the brand name is always the first thing to have in mind.
@Slim_Lyrics @StonerDemon I think its not really about ignoring. See, Im a marketing analyst, and naming a gaming site "game trailers" creates a very limited positioning potential. Everytime i want to see a game trailer (i.e. video), of course, Id choose GT, but people usually want more than that. For example, from a branding point of view, I know the site, but I can barely remember it!
@oisbush @StonerDemon im not really familiar with joystiq, my friend, but as far as i can see, it seems (visually) very similar to game informer. I guess ill have to check some reviews and contents, thanks for the info! mmm about the membership, remeber that aside from getting the word from the consumers, memberships are used to create data banks which in turn can be sold to other companies. all the websites do that. the question would be, why joystiq doesnt?
@thereal-15-cent thats what comes to my mind when i see sections named like "it happened on xboxlive first", or when i see ridiculous graphic comparisons with low resolution videos, based only on color saturation that clearly try to give xbox360 an advantage. and it also happened to me several times that GS redirects me to the xbox review of a game, even when i click on an aleady available ps3 review link.
If I had to give an opinion: 1UP: Boring GS: Xbox loving IGN: Messy and often biased Game Informer: The most balanced Giant Bomb: The best. Jeff Gertsman is behind it, and he got fired from GS just for having dignity!!!
I dont dislike Ign totally, but I hate it when I enter the site to read about games and then I have to deal with dozens of headlines about movies and tv shows that i dont even watch. And yes, most of the users comments are very impolite, they dont give a serious opinion about anything, they just use the comment section for swearing and talk stupidities. What i really rescue from ign is greg miller. he might be a PS fan boy, but he is really passionate about gaming. IGN with greg miller and jeff gertsman= better.
So far these guys are doing things right from a marketing point of view... they showed that ridiculous special edition, started some controversy, they apologized... and now they have all the attention!!! That's how it must be done, really.
So true... Of course, these games are gonna be really good (and they'd better be) but looking back, these are the same characters, used again and again for the last... 20 years? On the other side of the coin, Playstation, for example, has a bigger collection of characters and games, but they don't give their games enough marketing investment (resistance 3, mag, killzone 3, among others, all of them really good, but poorly marketed). If Nintendo's gonna play hard on hd remakes, they should give the Earthbound games a chance.
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