"Wow, I never looked at it that way before! You have really opened my eyes with your insight! I'm humbled by your ability to put together a cohesive, logical argument!"
You too, sugarballs. :) Yes, unfortunately, my post -unlike yours- does not represent the opinion of the entire gaming community.
"If I'm a parent and I walk into Best Buy or Gamestop on black friday this year with the intention of buying a new videogame system for my child, guess what? I'm not gonna be able to buy a PS3. But there will be plenty of Xbox 360s and Wiis on the shelves and they will cost considerably less than I was planning to spend on that PS3.
True, if you absolutely loyal to Sony, then you'll just wait until you can get your hands on one. But let's be realistic here, gamers aren't that loyal to any one company. Gamers will go where the games are, regardless of what company made the machine we're playing them on."
While I don't agree with all of that, it has nothing to do with this advertisement. There's hardly any reason for them not to advertise this close to launch. It's meant to promote their product. I'd say there's a much bigger chance of somebody buying a PS3 if they actually know that it exists in the first place. No?
Wow, that is kind of messed up, I didn't even notice that the launch date was on there. What's up with Sony's lame font this time around?
I don't understand. "driving customers to barren shelves flanked by competitor products" Unless there's something I'm missing..isn't the PS3 coming out November 6th or something? Doesn't it make sense to build up anticipation for their upcoming product despite predicted shortages? The ad is fine, but the article is kind of ridiculous. Their advertisements aren't going to frustrate anyone at this point, a month before launch.
"Xbox 360 controller doesn't suck, I love it its awesome, lets talk about Sony's crappy e3 controller with no rumble and a lackluster "motion" feedback system that their main game, whatever the hell it was claimed to not even know wnaything about until about 2 weeks before the show? Lets also talk about how if you wanna play HD movies on an xbox your still paying 100-200 dollars lesss than if you would have if you went and bought a PS3. In addition how can you bitch about the quailty in game choice when teh PS3 isn't even out yet and well, their launch lineup looks umm... lackluster? Please reserve your fanboyism for someone else, don't start ripping on stuff cause you have no idea what your talking about :) k. thx. bye."
a. i don't understand how you're bashing the ps3 controller when you haven't tried it b.wtf? hd-dvd+xbox360=$500-600
blu-ray+ps3 with a hard drive 20-40gb bigger than the 360's(not that I'm rooting for the PS3, but you shouldn't spout random bs and call somebody else a fanboy at the same time)=$500-600
c. uh, you can easily complain about the "quality in game choice" in regards to the 360 when the ps3 isn't out yet, because, well, let's see..the 360 is out
obviously he isn't going to go off on how little game variety there is, because that would void his whole point about bad sony press?
The interview in itself is awkward and pointless is sony hurting is this hurting sony has sony been hurting its playstation brand etc you know how he's going to answer those kinds of questions, why bother? isn't there anything more important/interesting(wtf, pr? who cares? is this site like one of those stupid magazines you see in grocery stores about what celebrities allegedly say/do?) to report on? the off record comment that was actually on record is extremely disrespectful to the man, whomever he may be
now i'm not biased towards sony in any way(except..yanno..my tv is pretty cool..), but i just can't believe this is good journalism
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Oct 8th 2006 11:47PM (Joystiq)You too, sugarballs. :)
Yes, unfortunately, my post -unlike yours- does not represent the opinion of the entire gaming community.
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Oct 8th 2006 11:43PM (Joystiq)True, if you absolutely loyal to Sony, then you'll just wait until you can get your hands on one. But let's be realistic here, gamers aren't that loyal to any one company. Gamers will go where the games are, regardless of what company made the machine we're playing them on."
While I don't agree with all of that, it has nothing to do with this advertisement. There's hardly any reason for them not to advertise this close to launch. It's meant to promote their product. I'd say there's a much bigger chance of somebody buying a PS3 if they actually know that it exists in the first place. No?
Wow, that is kind of messed up, I didn't even notice that the launch date was on there. What's up with Sony's lame font this time around?
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Oct 8th 2006 11:26PM (Joystiq)Regardless of "most gamers around the world's frustration with sony", it's a fairly crappy post.
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Oct 8th 2006 11:15PM (Joystiq)or sexual frustration
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Oct 8th 2006 11:13PM (Joystiq)"driving customers to barren shelves flanked by competitor products"
Unless there's something I'm missing..isn't the PS3 coming out November 6th or something?
Doesn't it make sense to build up anticipation for their upcoming product despite predicted shortages?
The ad is fine, but the article is kind of ridiculous.
Their advertisements aren't going to frustrate anyone at this point, a month before launch.
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Aug 18th 2006 1:33PM (Joystiq)Sony's first Blu-ray drive gets rap for not playing flicks
Aug 15th 2006 12:06AM (Engadget)a. i don't understand how you're bashing the ps3 controller when you haven't tried it
b.wtf?
hd-dvd+xbox360=$500-600
blu-ray+ps3 with a hard drive 20-40gb bigger than the 360's(not that I'm rooting for the PS3, but you shouldn't spout random bs and call somebody else a fanboy at the same time)=$500-600
c. uh, you can easily complain about the "quality in game choice" in regards to the 360 when the ps3 isn't out yet, because, well, let's see..the 360 is out
obviously he isn't going to go off on how little game variety there is, because that would void his whole point about bad sony press?
Sony's first Blu-ray drive gets rap for not playing flicks
Aug 14th 2006 11:33PM (Engadget)Sickening DS Lite stress test vid
Jul 13th 2006 11:20PM (Joystiq)This video was made to show how STRONG the DS LITE LCD is. I was quite suprised. The DS Lite is a very strong system.
*I AM NOT A DS FANBOY*
Sony's Phil Harrison: "I don't think we're arrogant"
Jul 13th 2006 11:15PM (Joystiq)is sony hurting
is this hurting sony
has sony been hurting its playstation brand
etc
you know how he's going to answer those kinds of questions, why bother?
isn't there anything more important/interesting(wtf, pr? who cares? is this site like one of those stupid magazines you see in grocery stores about what celebrities allegedly say/do?) to report on?
the off record comment that was actually on record is extremely disrespectful to the man, whomever he may be
now i'm not biased towards sony in any way(except..yanno..my tv is pretty cool..), but i just can't believe this is good journalism