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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:11AM (Unverified) said

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Thing is, if you didnt say it was a thumb, I would mistake it as a wierd penis.
I suppose the ad worked though, its all over the net.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:13AM (Unverified) said

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PS. I wonder if he has penises for thumbs.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:43AM CommentSystem said

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accidental bj's while coughing, or orgy with himself?
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Posted: May 14th 2008 2:11PM Nick the Hero of Canton said

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It didn't convince me to buy (or even consider to buy) a Sony product, so I'd say it failed, at least with me.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 2:19PM (Unverified) said

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Yeah. I hadn't heard of the PS3 until someone forwarded me this ad. Now I want to buy one, but I don't live in Europe. Damn!
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:12AM (Unverified) said

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Well that's damn near the creepiest and most disgusting thing I've seen in a while! Thanks Joystiq!
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Posted: May 14th 2008 12:59PM Misfit Toy said

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LOL
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:12AM (Unverified) said

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Sony's ads all suck.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:30AM copa said

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Well, it got me to stop criticizing their "Lady Taking a Crap" ad.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 3:11PM Larz said

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The US ads were pretty good actually. The Wii has had some decent ads here too, but the 360 seems to have had the worst and most scarce (again, in the US only). I guess that proves that advertising doesn't really work beyond just alerting consumers to what exists for purchase.

But I agree, advertisements in general do suck. I must say that I do like Europe's non-protestant ads containing nudity :) Just so long as it's not male nudity. I remember being overseas and flipping through a hardware store ad just out of sheer boredom, then seeing a totally naked woman showering. It was advertising shower heads or something... in all honestly I just remember thinking "boobies!"
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Posted: May 14th 2008 5:12PM humidfreak said

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You joking sony have the best ads ever but this one gets a thumbs down

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Posted: May 14th 2008 5:43PM RKN said

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Not all, I'll agree MOST, but there's some good ones in the pile.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:14AM koehler83 said

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No one ever mentions that this ad is only in Playboy.

Not that it makes it any less creepy.. but its at least not a slaughtered goat on display to the kiddies.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 12:52PM (Unverified) said

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Yeah but it's in the wrong kind of play magazine. I doubt most people are looking at playboy to see naked dudes in it.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:14AM FredFredrickson said

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Uh... wow. I hope I don't get fired for looking at this at work. I don't want to have to explain to my boss that it's just a thumb!

Honestly - I am tired of this crap. If the system is so good, why don't they show some god damned games in their ads? (And not some creepy dude with a penis-thumb.)
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:21AM (Unverified) said

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I agree completely, but watch the language man
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:22AM (Unverified) said

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Exactly my thought, back when gam systems actually had games to boast about, ads had games beign shown.


IMO this form of advertising is a sign of both a company in distress, and un-clever marketing.
They're hoping the controversial advertising does the same thing the one for PSP did!

However, now that they have sold a few million units of the machine AT A LOSS it would be wiser for them to advertise the games instead of showing this meaningless Bullcrap around.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:25AM SheppyReturns said

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"Exactly my thought, back when gam systems actually had games to boast about, ads had games beign shown."

When was this exactly? Because even Atari had Phil Hartman physically accousting a store clerk over a Hockey game...
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Posted: May 14th 2008 1:11PM (Unverified) said

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"Exactly my thought, back when gam systems actually had games to boast about, ads had games beign shown."

For real? I remember SNES and NES games usually having art work portraying the game. Old Castlevania games come to mind. Even the PSX era of games used art work or photos as well.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 2:53PM ProfKOS said

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"They're hoping the controversial advertising does the same thing the one for PSP did!"

What they're trying for is free advertising. Marketing and advertising firms try this stuff so that they can piggy-back on other media for free. A controversial ad will be feature on TV news, newspapers, magazines, blogs, etc.. This more than likely means that the advertising budget has either been cut or was already drastically low. they design controversial ads to get free coverage that will make up for the lack of paid coverage. It's a good strategy if done well, but this doesn't apply. This is just dumb.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:15AM (Unverified) said

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Brings a whole new meaning to sucking your thumb.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:28AM Cahlito said

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LMAO
that really laugh
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Posted: May 14th 2008 1:13PM Lone Starr said

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In the same vein, I find it interesting the ad agency is TWBA\Wein. Should be TBWA\Weiner.
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Posted: May 15th 2008 3:26AM ThornedVenom said

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"Suck my thumb."

"Pull my finger."

"THUMB WAR!"
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:16AM jhowlett said

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saw this yesterday and its still cracks me up
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:22AM (Unverified) said

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This doesn't make me want to play games. This makes me embarrassed to own a playstation. Sony's ads suck thumb.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:23AM (Unverified) said

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Well...they're not exactly gonna release this ads on billboards.

It's only for playboy.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:48AM (Unverified) said

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Notice how joystiq conveniently ignores this fact? It's meant for a mature audience within a mature magazine.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 12:00PM LaughingTarget said

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Playboy is a magazine for men, why put a naked dude in a straight men/lesbian woman magazine?
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Posted: May 14th 2008 12:05PM (Unverified) said

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It doesn't change the fact that it's still a stupid ad though. So I don't care if it is only in Playboy or any other 'adult' magazine.

It does not showcase the system in anyway, the system's games in anyway or even anything slightly video game related. It's disgusting in all honesty.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:24AM (Unverified) said

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that's definitely brilliant advertising, but i wouldn't have realized it was a thumb either had it not been pointed out. it's not that i'm not totally cool with a picture of a nude dude...it's just that when i see one i don't generally closely analyze his package. maybe if it was more erect?
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:35AM Delgadoh said

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Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the one and only time you will see such weird posts as this one on Joystiq. Revel in that moment, and when you're older look back on this time with fondness, as you will never hear conversations such as this again. Ever.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 12:09PM (Unverified) said

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WHAAAA?

Dude, its a thumb. Wee-man's dick is bigger than that (jackass2) If thats normal size for you, i feel 4 u man.

If your joking then, you got me.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 2:01PM (Unverified) said

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"[I]t's not that [I]'m not totally cool with a picture of a nude dude..."

(not gay)

seriously though, what on earth do you find 'brilliant' about this add?
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:25AM PoisonedAl said

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Fitting, seeing how Sony's marketing department are all dick-heads!
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Posted: May 14th 2008 12:16PM (Unverified) said

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Apparently not.

Sony sold 9.24M PS3s in FY07. The best Microsoft could do was 8.9M at a much lower price.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 1:49PM KaneRobot said

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Yeah, that's a massive gain on Microsoft, huh. They sold 0.3 million more! Wow! At this rate, the PS3 will have caught up to the PS3 when the PS6 comes out.

LOL at "much lower price."
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Posted: May 14th 2008 7:33PM (Unverified) said

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Hey name123 - do you get paid by Sony per post or per hour to spin shit?
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Posted: May 16th 2008 6:28PM xGearSecondx said

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Your avatar just made that comment all the more funnier. I salute you. xD
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:26AM Zertoss said

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Sony: Live in your world, play in ours... with your penis!

Sorry, I can't. I'm all dicks!
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:30AM TangoCharlie said

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Awesome Wii ad.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:31AM (Unverified) said

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Sony sucks.

An ad that everyone talks about after seeing? What are they thinking?
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Posted: May 14th 2008 12:07PM (Unverified) said

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An add in Playboy, pure gold. Sony's marketing sucks, I mean, NO ONE talks about them hardly ever.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 12:10PM (Unverified) said

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STFU..of course that's a huge benefit to forming a controversial ad. The reason Sony sucks, in this instance, is that it's a horribly frivolous attempt at an advertisement.

Sony has the Playstation for games, so why not showcase some of what the product is actually intended for...
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Posted: May 14th 2008 12:23PM (Unverified) said

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So NO OTHER company does this right?

Have you seen a jeans commercial?
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Posted: May 14th 2008 12:53PM (Unverified) said

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@ Whitesox

Umm..yeah..and generally the commercials I see for jeans and other clothing at least has clothed people in them. So now this ad has two things against it

No clothing...
No product..
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:31AM FlawedLogicXIII said

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Now, does this mean that Austria has a larger female or gay-male gamer population...becasue I would assume that normal reasoning would lead one to belive that a straight male would not be so "inclined" to buy a PS3 after seeing this ad - maybe a woman with thumbsticks for nipples (which is equally disturbing), but certainly not what this ad portrays.

Sony really needs some better marketing strategies.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:34AM (Unverified) said

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Its like killing 2 birds with one stone.

Fingering!
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:42AM samfish said

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Too bad he doesn't have Chun Li's thumb...he'd probably feel better about himself.
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/21/chun-lis-massive-hands-cause-for-concern-in-street-fighter-iv/
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Posted: May 14th 2008 11:52AM Ralph23 said

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I give that add 1 thumb up!

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