{"id":3411,"date":"2017-10-25T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/nintendos_close_call_commercials_focus_on_fantastical_switch_games"},"modified":"2017-10-25T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T14:45:00","slug":"nintendos-close-call-commercials-focus-on-fantastical-switch-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/25\/nintendos-close-call-commercials-focus-on-fantastical-switch-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#8217;s &#8216;Close Call&#8217; Commercials Focus on Fantastical Switch Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a fascinating launch year to date for the Nintendo Switch, and the big N&#8217;s marketing for the system has also been pretty decent. For one thing it&#8217;s figured out what Sony and Microsoft grasped years ago &#8211; if you want kids to think your system is cool, use stereotypically &#8216;cool&#8217; people to advertise it. In other words, photogenic young adults, or &#8216;millennials&#8217; if you can say the term and avoid your eyeballs rolling out of your head.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the year we saw some neat competitive gaming-themed trailers advertising the likes of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\"><strong>Splatoon 2<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/arms\"><strong>ARMS<\/strong><\/a>, and now Nintendo of America is pushing its &#8216;close call&#8217; TV adverts. These are focused on adventure-style titles, namely\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fire_emblem_warriors\"><strong>Fire Emblem Warriors<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/elder_scrolls_v_skyrim\"><strong>The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/xenoblade_chronicles_2\"><strong>Xenoblade Chronicles 2<\/strong><\/a>. Check out the most recent below.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>This followed another earlier this week focused primarily on Warriors.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We think they&#8217;re quite fun as TV commercials; what do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a fascinating launch year to date for the Nintendo Switch, and the big N&#8217;s marketing for the system has also been pretty decent. For one thing it&#8217;s figured out what Sony and Microsoft grasped years ago &#8211; if you want kids to think your system is cool, use stereotypically &#8216;cool&#8217; people to advertise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}