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What's the Deal, Capcom of America?Topic%20Title

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2MaSPZIUUY

So Britain now gets a TV add for JFA, but America gets nothing?

If Capcom's so concerned about this game getting great sales, why are we here in America devoid of any advertising for the game aside from the occasional mention in Nintendo Power?

It bothers me how left out of the loop us Americans are most of the time -_-
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If I got the choice between geting the game several months before and geting a medicore ad that I will never see, then I would pic the early game. And the Americans are out of the loop? Try to be an european gamer, it really takes patience or a credit card...
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Yeah, LoG. Try waiting 6 months in order to get ANY games. When did Elite Beat Agents get out in America? October? November? When will it be out in Europe? Most likely after summer!
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Well, like what the European gamers said. Although, it would be nice to get some advertising just for the heck of it...
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Wow, Everyone, Calm down! Taser LoG is bring up a simple point, there is no need to verbally rape him. Unless he likes that kinda thing... Ack

Anyway, I do have to with agree LoG that get a Commerical in the US would have been nice but we a few advertisements in magazines at least. I know that Nintendo Power, Shonen Jump and Gameinformer had advertisements.

I believe that Capcom is trying to get JFA more on attention the internet than other medias. After all, AA really picked up when people started spreading the news about how much they loved the game. Not because it had a commerical or even ad in magazines.
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Err, I happen to think PW is now one of those under-the-radar staple that can sell even without any commercials - like scotch tape and chapsticks (blink blink)
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My point wasn't how long it took, sheesh guys, my point was that I'm wondering why they havn't advertized for it. I think it would fare better for the sales!

Calm down, please.
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They have had quite a bit of other advertising, though. GameFAQs ran the same JfA banner ad every time I visited their forums in February and about half of March, and I still see it from time to time. I remember there were a few ads in Nintendo Power, too. Some american TV ads would've been nice, I suppose, but otherwise they seem to have their bases well covered.
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But what still doesn't fit in my opinion is this:

Nintendo is so Gung-Ho about casual gamers getting into their games. So why only run ads in places that only serious gamers would be?

I think that one's a no-brainer.
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I have to agree. I think some good mainstream advertising could do a lot for Ace Attorney's sales, and I'm really confused as to why there hasn't been any as of yet.
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The way this was presented make's it look like the thinking persons game that it is.

If something like this aired in the US, maybe my friends would stop referring to it as "that game where you run around the courtroom, pointing and yelling"...
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Honestly, I don't even think the commercial even has to be even that good. Just getting the name out there is better than doing nothing and expecting the game to sell itself.
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LoG wrote:
But what still doesn't fit in my opinion is this:

Nintendo is so Gung-Ho about casual gamers getting into their games. So why only run ads in places that only serious gamers would be?

I think that one's a no-brainer.


I believe that Nintendo doesn't get much say as far as ads go for games they don't develop themselves. I'm not saying that Nintendo doesn't have any control of market of it's consoles game but they have limits since the other company (Capcom for this instance) has most of the control of the games marketing. This is simply due to the fact that the other Company (Capcom) is more effected by how sucessful their game is. Aiga

Plus, Casual Gamers wouldn't be the best audience for a heavy thinking game like PW. I seriously can't see an 8 Year Old or his 84 year old Grandmother playing PW. Hardcore players aren't much better but they would be more likely to pick up this game then a Casual player. Franziska
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But you see, Puffy, that's where you're wrong.

So many of my friends and family members who never play video games have picked up my DS and played Phoenix Wright and gotten completely hooked on it.

I had my 13 year old cousin Christina, who has NEVER touched a DS or video game system before, begging me to let her keep play it because she almost got through a big part of a case.

If anything, I think this is exactly the type of game a casual gamer would like. It doesn't require a buttload of knowledge about the system, or video games in general, it's easy to save and put away for a bit then come back to it later, and it's fun for the sake of being fun.
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To be honest, I've never seen a TV commercial for a Capcom game for the DS.

In fact, the only DS ads I've seen have been for first-party stuff like Mario games.

Really, I think what Capcom does is let us sell the game for them. :P
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I don't think that the ad is televised, I only sar it on youtube. And AMERICANS left out the loop? Are you kiddin? Lol
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It sucks being in Europe quite often, actually.

The TV commercials are used here because Channel Four's Friday Night slot is sponsored by Nintendo. Publicity all over the place, yes. But advertising for video games is very very very scarce. It wasn't until a few years ago that Nintendo actually promoted things on a bigger scale here in the UK.

N64? Heard nothing about it, almost. Gamecube? Shit all.

Wii and DS? Loads! They're trying to appeal to a way bigger market here and are doing incredibly well.

Though I must comment on getting games incredibly late; getting it translated into other European languages slows the process down incredibly. Awful example, but look at Kingdom Hearts 2. America in March, UK and Europe in October. JFA; US in December/January, UK in March.

So frustrating!
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I agree ally. I ended up importing in JFA from America, when I heard we wern't gettin it till March.
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*nods*

The game store that I frequent, Chips, often gets import games in. They had three American copies of JFA and my friend bought one. *laughs* I played it in Japanese beforehand on the GBA, but only borrowed it a few weeks ago.

Why buy when you can mooch? 8D
He mooched the first game from me, so the little circle is complete!
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Ugh... Europe is the last one to get ALL good games, except if it's from SCEE. And when I think it will take at least 3 months to see GS3 here AFTER it gets in the US...
Lately, though, ads for videogames increased significantly in Italy, but still no JFA. WHY?
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Look, the point of this topic is simple: Capcom said that they were gonna take Justice For All more seriously than the first game with more advertisements and such, but they really didn't do anything.
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This isn't an argument about the games Europe gets! It's a topic about Advertising!

Quit getting so offended where no offense has even been implied.
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I don't think you're looking at the bigger picture.

No, I haven't seen any AA commercials or anything. But it's not like Capcom has been sitting on their butts. They've been pushing the community theme on their website, redid the official site and forums. THEY emailed ME to ask how we could work together to support the fandom! I think that's incredible for as small a franchise as AA still is.

Not to mention the contest they're running, the prizes they offered for OUR contest, the fan questions they answered, and now they're offering to forward our questions onto the devleopment team in Japan.

I think all of that outweighs a corny TV commercial any day.
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I've only seen that ad once before. Also, I think the main reason there isn't an ad out in america is because the English are less informed about gaming than Americans. That ad also took AGES to come out so maybe there will be an American one.
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Simply because UK > US.

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Simply because UK > US.

LOL! I'm English and even I disagree! XD
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Woah.... that's weird.... I thought America got everything O_O"
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LoG wrote:
Nintendo is so Gung-Ho about casual gamers getting into their games. So why only run ads in places that only serious gamers would be?

Capcom isn't Nintendo. Nintendo uses specific popular titles in some advertising campaigns to get people to buy their systems, but Nintendo doesn't do all the game advertising, AFAIK. This is probably a Capcom campaign to get European customers.

Just for the record: JFA doesn't need advertising in America. You all know how well PW:AA did in America, and that didn't have advertising either (I believe). In Europe it wasn't quite so successful.


And DarzieP: It is televised. I've seen it. :[
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Mad Surge wrote:
Ugh... Europe is the last one to get ALL good games, except if it's from SCEE. And when I think it will take at least 3 months to see GS3 here AFTER it gets in the US...
Lately, though, ads for videogames increased significantly in Italy, but still no JFA. WHY?


Australia end up waiting the longest for games. They only just got PW1.

Plus I never seen that advert on TV. In seen other DS adverts but not that one.

Plus Log, USA and Japan got an advert for Advance Wars Dual Strike and UK got fudge all.
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Liquidzilla wrote:
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Simply because UK > US.

LOL! I'm English and even I disagree! XD

I was joking. I think UK and US are about equal. And I hate the UK JFA ad, it's horrible. I'd rather no ad at all!
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