TheMadCat wrote...
tmp7704 wrote...
Last year? Metal Gear Solid, Halo, Crysis, Forza Motorsport, Final Fantasy, Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid.
I was hoping you would have picked up on the trend yourself but apparently you haven't so I'll point it out. Asian developers operate on a much, much smaller advertisement budget then Euro/American publishers, they tend to rely on these events for cheap advertisement far more then their counter parts out west who prefer the center of attention, private demos and bull sessions, and primetime TV ads. This is why you see all these games listed (Minus a couple) are from firms established in the east (..)
I'm sorry, but when roughly half of the titles i listed (4 out of 9) actually gets announced by the large western publishers with these supposed much larger budgets, this isn't much of a trend you try to paint. That's like saying world population is men (minus couple of women)
Besides, do you really believe the cost of attending E3 at the scale Microsoft, Sony or EA does ... is less than what it'd cost them to get a small group of key journalists into a private demo session during slow news time, something which is supposed to give much better advertisement effect?
One thing I've noticed though in your arguments against mine, you've failed to give a reason as to why BioWare blew the opportune chance at E3, instead you've been shouting Nintendo and saying nuh uh you're wrong, though much more eloquently obviously. Care to explain why you feel BioWare blew it?
It's not like you couldn't refresh your memory simply checking few posts back, so i'm not sure what you're trying to achieve with this question. But to recap:
- i said it's rather odd to see a company pass up on a good opportunity to advertise their products
- you have countered with claim that's because the result of such advertising would be less than if they did it outside of this kind of convention and as such it's normal thing for any large company to do
- i've questioned that, pointing out multiple companies of this scale that do in fact adverise in such manner even though it's, according to your claim, a silly thing to do and they'd be much better off not doing it this way.
- you've countered by modifying your original statement -- it's now not just small companies that advertise in such way, it's also eastern companies because they're cheap.
- i've found your new explanation to be stretching the facts, at best.
In short, you have attempted to address my initial question but i've found the provided explanation rather questionable itself. It would've probably worked better if you hadn't tried to present it as some kind of universal thing, i suppose? I mean, if you try to add weight to your theory with "everyone is doing it like that" and actually not everyone is doing it like that, then welp.
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LOL sorry to nit-pick, we just happened to spend ALL of Friday correcting people about that at work XD
They feed us little tidbits and then ignore us......hehehe.
