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trancehime:
--- Quote from: ♪ Baneling-chan ♫ on September 29, 2010, 07:10:49 PM ---Funny how Taiwan is far more weeaboo than even Japan. Also she's cute :3c
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Taiwan is probably the only place apart from Japan that actually holds dedicated Touhou conventions ala Reitaisai, now if that isn't special I don't know what is.
Tengukami:
--- Quote from: Stuffman on September 30, 2010, 08:51:55 AM ---Why is Microsoft marketing in Asia so awesome?
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Yes, why? Especially when their marketing in America is so amateurish and wince-inducingly shitty. Remember the Gates/Seinfeld commercials? Do I even need to bring up the horror that is the Songsmith commercial? And yet in Asia, they create anime characters.
I'm not an expert on PR, but my guess is that Microsoft, like other ginormous corporations, contracts advertising firms and takes their word for it with regards to what will "work" and what won't. Why their Asian advertising agents are so savvy and their North American counterparts are so utterly clueless is beyond me.
Kilgamayan:
It makes sense that North American advertisers don't know how to advertise, because the North American consumer base, by and large, doesn't know what it wants. >_>
helvetica:
--- Quote from: Aya Syameimaruro on September 30, 2010, 08:57:44 AM ---I like the zettai ryouiki art style.
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IMHO her outfit is extremely cute. Man I don't get how Microsoft's advertising team is so inconsistent. Their Windows 7 campaign in Japan/Asia was brilliant (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-04-30/windows-7-gets-anime-ad-with-nanami-madobe-mascot friggen Nana Mizuki to voice an OS theme? :o). And now the Silverlight thing for their annual tech conference in Taiwan.
But then you look at how AWFUL the Windows 7 advertisements were here (lol WINDOWS 7 WAS MY IDEA and the awful Seinfeld ones), as well as the countless PR gaffs MS has done with the 360 in Japan. Seriously, if it weren't for MS Japan the 360 would have crushed the PS3.
Kinzo the Astro Curious:
--- Quote from: Stuffman on September 30, 2010, 08:51:55 AM ---
Why is Microsoft marketing in Asia so awesome?
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The bun is your system resources.
The meat is windows 7.
The jawlock is pain.