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What important of a factor was good/bad marketing for a console's success? Did people buy consoles based off of ads in magazines or did they just go to the store and buy the next Nintendo?

>> No.10887707

>>10887698
I bought the game console that had games on it that I wanted to play.

>> No.10887718

>>10887698
marketing is a huge factor

>> No.10887739

Marketing is irrelevant which is why the Wii U is the best selling console of all time

>> No.10887761

>>10887698
I never read magazines but there were plenty of TV ads, store kiosks, and you'd see a bunch of games at rental stores.
Also you'd play games at a friend's house and be like, I need to get this for myself.

>> No.10887897

it's cube not square

>> No.10887905

>meanwhile, Square is on PlayStation

>> No.10887929

anon ads are for normies

>> No.10889434

>>10887698
>What important of a factor
Tired of jeets posting garbage on this board.

>> No.10889676

>>10887698
I was a teenager here in Australia when the GameCube released and didn't even really knew it existed, along with the OG Xbox. PC and PS2 dominated that era for me and my group of friends in high-school. There was only one kid I knew who had an N64 before the GameCube came out, and we only ever played games like Mario Party on it at his house.

>> No.10890342

>>10887698
It's both, but I feel it was a lot more relevant then.
"marketing" now just seems to be dumping money into internet shilling. Some of the ads were like pieces of art in the magazines.

>> No.10890348

>>10887929
Normies constitute a majority of the market.