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Nintendo pulls Wii ads due to high demand

Marketing Week - 06-Dec-07:

"Nintendo, the gaming giant, has been forced to pull ads for its Wii console in the run up to Christmas as demand is already too high.

The campaign for Wii, created by Karmarama, will be replaced by ads for its handheld console, Nintendo DS.

The company says that it has been forced to pull the ads because retailers have been running out of consoles and it would be irresponsible to continue with the campaign."

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Published: 740 days 22 hours ago | News | Wii | Nintendo DS | Industry News

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ruibing - 740 days 22 hours ago

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Well, that makes sense. Marketing campaigns are used to increase demand for a product, but the Wii already has a large excess demand. So unless they want to increase the price of Wiis so that the demand matches the current supply available, there is no point in paying for those ads. Those ads were basically just driving up the price of Wiis on Ebay.

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wiizy - 740 days 22 hours ago

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nintendo still did something bad... keep the ads running.. so no one even think about the ps3 or xbox360 for that matters..... nintendo needs to keep the wii's coming

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rofldings - 740 days 21 hours ago

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Why? Some people want a gaming machine, not a toy, for christmas.

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PS360WII - 740 days 21 hours ago

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yeah they want a gaming machine which is why everyone around the world wants a Wii.

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The Maverick - 740 days 21 hours ago

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why won't anybody see the truth

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Lord Cheese - 740 days 21 hours ago

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MY COMMENT WAS REPORTED AS SPAM, SO IVE REMOVED IT.

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PS360WII - 740 days 21 hours ago

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LordCheese - is an understanding member ^^

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Lord Cheese - 740 days 21 hours ago

3.3 - PS360WII

fair enuf - was a bit of a stupid comment to be fair.

i've edited it

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PS360WII - 740 days 21 hours ago

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cool cool man. Yea I can understand why people don't like the Wii and yes the name still gets me. lol.

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riksweeney - 740 days 21 hours ago

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They didn't need to pull the adverts, they could have simply changed it to

Nintendo Wii, good luck getting one this close to Christmas

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SimmoUK - 740 days 21 hours ago

5 - fairplay to nintendo...

there advertising campaign has really done it for them they showed games and people having fun with a motion controller..

just a shame that there not a hardware company so they cant make as many as Sony or Microsoft...

personally i thought about the wii but i've heard the gimmick wears off really quickly...

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wiizy - 740 days 21 hours ago

6 - lol...

oh yeah i forgot you plan on taking over the world with your console...... oh well wii will win and the best games are yet to come... so go complain to sony for being last...... no wonder wii is still out stock two years in a row....they got it right..

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Adropacrich2 - 740 days 20 hours ago

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With Nintendo being so innovative it's not like they don't deserve to be doing great.Struggled a bit with N64 and Gamecube and so i'm glad to see them succeeding so well this time.

Wii is underpowered compared to it's rivals but it's not like gamecube's graphics were anything bad in the first place.I'm happy providing Nintendo gives us heavenly gems like Galaxy every now and again.

Nintendo is quite unlike any other company and it's aproach to design is always fresh and uniquely excecuted.

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predator - 740 days 20 hours ago

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am i the only person that wants to punch those two men that say "we want to play"?

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The Maverick - 740 days 20 hours ago

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I totally agree with you but dont worry lets play our next gen games let them have smg and ssbb, they need them

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Adropacrich2 - 740 days 19 hours ago

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A more sensible option is to also have a 360 or PS3, so to not miss out on other great games(less so right now regarding PS3 of course).Having Wii and 360 means i'm having a whole lot of fun this christmas.

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whoelse - 740 days 17 hours ago

10 - thank god

I cringe everytime i see a Wii advert but tbh, the DSs arent any better.

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DeckUKold - 740 days 15 hours ago

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get rid of some ds production 4 the Wii

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Marceles - 740 days 14 hours ago

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Yeah they seriously needed to pull those ads.

"Wii $249.99!!" The ads make it seem like you can just waltz in the store and pick one up.

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