How did Nintendo actually get away with this? The entire game is a parade of blatant product placement.
How did Nintendo actually get away with this? The entire game is a parade of blatant product placement
Brayden Allen
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Nolan Rivera
Pikmin 2 is a fun game.
Jaxon Cooper
having name brands was novel back then.
Liam Foster
Because most of us weren't console warriors shitposting online in 2001, we just thought it was pretty cool and gave the game a surreal feeling.
Thomas Long
Joshua Rivera
Why do people get mad over stuff like this anyway? If it's in your face about it and takes away from the game then it's bad of course, but having real stuff in a game is pretty cool
Juan Sullivan
For Pikmin it was treated as a "hey look the aliens are taking this shit we throw out that's cute" sort of thing. It wasn't like Scott Pilgrim movie having Coke Zero namesropped and shown every other scene or Power Rangers having a slow cut of Rita eating some Krispy Kreme donuts with the store fully in frame.
It wasn't
Eli Davis
Because Olimar gave his honest thoughts about the objects, which made it funny.
Ayden Bennett
Because it fits naturally in the setting of the world with mini aliens from another planet taking old shit from our planet. It fits seamlessly within the gameplay and plot.
Ayden Bailey
Having your Pikmin carry a generic giant battery without the recognizable branding isn't nearly as endearing.
Julian Brown
Eli Nguyen
chiquita banana fags btfo
Ryan King
I especially like it when the product placement becomes long irrelevant
Matthew Sullivan
>game has an ad for a political campaign in it
Cooper Mitchell
the joy of not being sold anything
Hunter Brooks
I miss dnL
Mason White
Because it was cool to find a mundane thing you recognized and then see how Olimar interpreted it as an ancient artifact.
Dominic Collins
Most of the brands in Pikmin 2 had nothing to really gain from advertising in it (8 year olds don't give a crap about shoe polish). It was to fit in the theme of Olimar being on Earth without ever knowing about it. It was one of those rare well-done 4th wall breaks.
Dylan Moore
So which way did money move to make this possible - did Nintendo seek out and pay companies to put their shit in Pikmin 2, or vice versa?
Gabriel Martin
>Most of the brands in Pikmin 2 had nothing to really gain from advertising in it
Pretty much this. I can see food product placements being effective because that shit works on a lot of people, but nobody’s going to run out and buy Duracells just because they saw it in a game. Not to mention it’s a brand that’s already so prevalent that it probably won’t convert a lot of people; most players likely already use them anyway.
Jack Wood
They did it with the Chibi-Robo game for 3DS too
Grayson Jackson
What's a game that actually does this?
Jacob Myers
Burnout Paradise had an ad for Obama's 2008 campaign
William Stewart
Usually companies pay to have their shit in stuff but I imagine people have negotiated contracts where neither party pays anything because it's mutually beneficial. I know another thing that happens is sometimes things are put in movies just because the company owns them. Sony was really bad about this for awhile with everyone having Vaio laptops and phones when it was a shit brand that no one in the real world every used.
Jeremiah Hernandez
This is now a product placement thread
Zachary Clark
>always thought calorie mates were some in game fantasy food item
>it's an actual nutrition bar thing in japan
neat
Dylan Reed
Same thing for me and the Don Quijote stores in Yakuza.
Nolan Richardson
That shit was actually pretty cool cuz it wasn't too common. I remember when The original Sims had a Pepsi machine as free DLC it was fuckin cool cuz there wasn't even an actual soda machine in the game until like an expansion or two later.
Jason Harris
Because it's used in a clever way to drive home that the Pikmin planet is Earth, and that humans explicitly lived there. There's no scene of Olimar going
>I sure do love me some COCA-COLA®
>*SLUUUURPPP*
I can't imagine Nintendo even made their money back after going through the effort of licensing so much shit, it actually changes depending on your region so it has American or European or Jap items, and Pikmin isn't exactly their hottest franchise.
Joshua Evans
Ayden Evans
Do you think they still send out cup noodle trucks in the world of ruin
Daniel Stewart
As long as they have enough coleman camping gear to survive the night
Liam Johnson
That was patched out right?
Brody Collins
How successful is Pikmin (game sales) and how come you don't see Pikmin making cameos in other Nintendo series? Like for instance in say Legend of Zelda Minish Cap?
Ian Adams
PLEASE BUY DISSIDIA
Angel Wood
Because it actually drives home the fact that 'this is earth, this is the planet and the universe WE live in'. Product placement isn't always inherently bad. Of course you have shit like this: youtube.com
But product placement can just be coincidental. If you're trying to build a world and tell us that these are people in this world, you have products. We as people consume products. How awkward would it be if everyone was drinking unmarked cans of soda, or going to nameless fast food restaurants? They wouldn't feel real, and nor would the world if products were simply non-existent. Would Pikmin feel more like the Earth if you just picked up label-less batteries and blank bottlecaps?
Jace Butler
>I can see food product placements being effective because that shit works on a lot of people, but nobody’s going to run out and buy Duracells just because they saw it in a game.
Didn't Alan Wake have a bunch of Energizer product placement in it?