Why do we only see the same type of games advertised on UK tv ?
Every time i see an ad for a game on tv it is always the same type of games........shooters and/or gory games. Why don't we ever see different types of games advertised? We get the odd racing game advertised but it's usually only Forza. Why don't we ever see platformers or JRPG's advertised ? It's like if a game doesn't have blood, guts or guns then you won't see an ad for it on tv.
I remember seeing an ad for Splatoon a while back, but i only seen it once or twice. I have seen games like Destiny, COD, Battlefront and GTA get advertised many times throughout the day at times.
In the old days, all kinds of games were getting advertised, you don't see that anymore.
I remember seeing an ad for Splatoon a while back, but i only seen it once or twice. I have seen games like Destiny, COD, Battlefront and GTA get advertised many times throughout the day at times.
In the old days, all kinds of games were getting advertised, you don't see that anymore.
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The bigger developers / publishers have more cash to be able to throw at big advertising campaigns, like EA or Activision. With smaller companies I imagine most of their budgets go into the game itself and cant afford too much advertising.
Plenty, Tales of Zestiria is a great game, but there was no tv ad for it.
It's not just in the last year though, in the last generation the only JRPG's i seen advertised were Final Fantasy games.
They didn't advertise Tales of on TV and yet you still think that it's a great game, I think that goes a long way to answering your question
Plus less and less people are consuming TV on a TV they are watching stuff online, as and people migrate online it makes less sense for more niche games to waste the money on TV when they can just do a few let's plays on Youtube or something else
Not really, being a big gamer and a fan of JRPG's since i was a kid, i'm obviously going to stumble across this game. But casual's and fans of different type of games may never hear about it.
They'll have been subsidised (or completely covered) by one of the platforms, yeah. In those cases it'll be driven by games which Sony/Microsoft think will shift units, not whether the game is any good or not as the OP seems to think it should be.
It's more of a cross promotional thing as a deal has been done to include the game in a hardware bundle. It's a win, win for the software publisher and Sony/MS.
Indie games aren't the type of games i am talking about though.