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Ad avoidance is a good solution to caring about the games. You can't covet the product if you don't even know it exists. With Nintendo games in particular, it helps that Nintendo is the kind of asshole corporation that copyright strikes third parties showing off their games online. That makes it even easier to not know what their games are.

>>lupusr+(OP)
Nintendo doesn't necessarily need advertising, because their franchises are so strong. I think people know there's gonna be a new Mario Party, or new Mario Kart, or new 3D Mario game, and they'll buy them if they like those games. Odds are if you like Mario Party 8 then Superstars will be right up your alley.

Nintendo also has the somewhat unique position of being the only one providing high-quality games in a variety of categories. If you want a couch racing game, you're playing nintendo. If you want a 3D platformer, you're playing nintendo. If you want a couch party games, you're playing nintendo. In fact if you want couch co-op at all you're playing nintendo, pretty much everyone else gave it up because you lose money.

>>lupusr+(OP)
All game publishers are evil corporations.

There are a number of great studios which happen to have financial ties to a given publisher. If you like these studios you have no choice but to indirectly give money to the publisher in question.

One obvious example for Nintendo is Monolith Software.