The 3DO Magazine Ad Campaign...
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The 3DO Magazine Ad Campaign...
...was really pretty bad. It falls for every mid-90s marketing cliche ever. It's got the "hip slang" obviously written by someone in their 30s, the X-TREME attitude, and the high-angle big-head shots of people with crazy expressions on their faces.
The 3DO archivists around here will want these for posterity. Everyone else, just point and laugh.
http://www.errormacro.com/2007/07/the_s ... al_3do.php
The 3DO archivists around here will want these for posterity. Everyone else, just point and laugh.
http://www.errormacro.com/2007/07/the_s ... al_3do.php
- Gir Draxa
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I agree. Most American and UK ads I've seen miss the point. But then I'm thinking they weren't marketing it just for kids, but trying to blend "for the kids" & for the "hip 20-30 year old" and they failed miserably.
Check out the partial upload of the Japanese 3DO mag I did. They had it marketed about right with their game ads.
As we all know, you can spout technical knowledge all you want, but its not going to impress anyone if you don't have the games. Sega had the superior system by far to the NES in the Master System, but the games and licenses weren't there. (But of course we all know that Sega couldn't market their way out of a paperbag.)
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Check out the partial upload of the Japanese 3DO mag I did. They had it marketed about right with their game ads.
As we all know, you can spout technical knowledge all you want, but its not going to impress anyone if you don't have the games. Sega had the superior system by far to the NES in the Master System, but the games and licenses weren't there. (But of course we all know that Sega couldn't market their way out of a paperbag.)
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I think it's always going to be tough for the hardware vendors. People want the games right? The hardware, for most people at least, is irrelevant. SO in fairness - what, as a console maker, are you going to say? You have to market, but no-one is really interested in the technicalities that make you hardware great!
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Except these ads all feature games!3DOKid wrote:I think it's always going to be tough for the hardware vendors. People want the games right? The hardware, for most people at least, is irrelevant. SO in fairness - what, as a console maker, are you going to say? You have to market, but no-one is really interested in the technicalities that make you hardware great!
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Isis is one of the last generation 3DO titles that were clones of MYST. Only a handful are known to exist.3DO Experience wrote:Hey, what's that game called ISIS ? I don't recall it, and it doesn't seem to be in my collection.
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