Promotional Consideration is a weekly feature about the Nintendo DS advertisements you usually flip past, change the channel on, or just tune out.
We applaud any video game ad that eschews the common official-art-and-screenshots approach, a template that's been in place for as long as we can remember. This week's piece abandons those conventions, marketing EA's SimCity DS port and its city-management features in a much more creative fashion. Expand you commercial zoning, lower industrial taxes, and join us past the break!
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A tale of two screens.
The credit for this clever piece goes to Illusive Design Collective, a small, twenty-strong advertising firm based in Lisbon, Portugal. The ad appeared in several magazines and signs around the United Kingdom.
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We can't ever remember seeing anything like this for the DS out on the streets. Perhaps publishers in the states don't see signs as an effective medium for advertising handheld games?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
3-16-2008 @ 5:37PM
jsutcliffe said...
Oh dear. I forsee many mornings of being late to work after I miss my stop, nose-deep in SimCity-land.
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3-16-2008 @ 6:19PM
Dig said...
I see what they did there.
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3-16-2008 @ 11:17PM
Jeff said...
Is this a new Simcity?
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3-17-2008 @ 2:40AM
Mikeawesome said...
I really like this ad, yeah, but I really wish that SimCity DS was more awesome. I mean, it felt really really stripped down to me.
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