Lampooning Sony's fake PSP site
In this day and age when you screw up you pay for it online in the form of bad press, blog posts, hate mail, never-ending commentary (read: this post), a tarnished image and sometimes even replica sites calling you out when applicable. All I Want For Xmas Is a PS3 does just that making fun of the old marketers pretending to be puberty plagued consumers that ran the fake and now infamous PSP blog that is no more. We're confident others will quickly follow suit ... Yep. This just in: Both the 360 and Wii spoof sites are live.But unfortunately for Sony and Zipatoni, their sheepish feeling and current depreciated brands are sure to outlast said fleeting sites. And yes, there is such a thing as bad publicity. Ask Michael Jackson. Now let's leave this misadventure behind and hope the companies in question focus on what they do (or don't do) best in their newly discovered transparent world.
[Thanks, AoE; Image credit]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
my moustache @ Dec 14th 2006 8:55PM
isn't it a ps*3* site?
It's interesting that they included the gratuitous pron and "h0rny l0ver" references, along with the ridiculously s7up1d interwebs slang.
Shows you what they think of you, Sony customers.
/a group that i am not a part of
A Lurking Ninja @ Dec 14th 2006 8:57PM
and when youre sony.....when you screw up big time , everybody pays for it.....
Revo @ Dec 14th 2006 9:16PM
>, you suggested that Sony intentionally made the site seem fake to garner extra publicity. I take it that the fact that it's now been shut down just means it's the final phase in Sony's plan?
NintendoFanbot @ Dec 14th 2006 10:00PM
Maybe Sony was spoofing crappy old 80s commercials while Nintendo was paying homage with one of theirs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h4u_V3pGmg
nick @ Dec 14th 2006 10:28PM
but David Manning called the PS3 "this year's hottest new star!"
glitched @ Dec 15th 2006 1:27AM
whats depreciated more? Sony's brands or Blake Snow's credibility as a blogger...
NoHitHair @ Dec 15th 2006 6:04AM
Thank you so, so much for stating that there is such a thing as bad press. That pathetic and highly overused cliche' needs to come to rest.
Farhad2000 @ Dec 15th 2006 6:56AM
I don't know what is sadder the fact that this happened or the fact that Kenwood came out with the exact same thing and tried to spam it on our site.
Check it here http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=24933
Pathetic. All of them.
FrankTheCrank @ Dec 15th 2006 8:14AM
I don't know what the hell you guys are talking about...but man, that laptop has the coolest background I've ever seen. Very cool visual effect.