2013-09-11, 11:37 PM
Dudewitbow Wrote:disagree, pokemon x&y was definately targeted for the holiday season. its arguably the reason why nintendo even made a new 3ds model for it(the 2ds). thats pretty much marketing directly to parents to buy a 2ds + pokemon for christmas
The holiday season as a target doesn't detract from the general point of categorizing the item as a cash cow. Marketing strategies also doesn't deny the idea that there is minimal marketing put into a product. If you were a game company with a minimal budget (which Game Freak is not) then niche marketing is a highly probable strategy a company would use to draw in a loyal fanbase for their company so they can continue to produce games. You can market during holiday season, that doesn't detract from the amount of funding that would be put into such an endeavor unless we can reliably believe that all marketing during the holiday season would require immense funding due to a scenario where businesses battle for exclusive bids in a limited advertising vacuum that is awarded to the highest bidder.
Dudewithbow Wrote:the fact that nintendo could have released the game earlier is another sign. this is nintendo's first(?) time doing a simultaneous worldwide release regionally. all of their moves point to the fact that they WANT to market pokemon
A desire to put a product to massive market does not necessitate that a respectable amount of resources were put into marketing. I would like to do many things to my career prospects and plan for it, however that does not necessitate that actual time and effort was put into achieving it. Nor does it indicate that it was accomplished.