Post by Titus_Kwok

Posted: 12/13/2006 3:25 PM

Post subject: don't just wear it – pwn it!!1!

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L4yer

Joined: 6/12/2006
Posts: 368

http://www.alliwantforxmasisapsp.com/blog/ What is Sony thinking? They hire a company to do an ad campaign, ok that's fine. The company/Sony decides to make it a discreet project and sets up a blog. That in itself is not ok since according to this what they are doing is illegal, you can't buy fake testimonials without saying you hired them. This goes back to the time Sony made up David Manning, a fake movie critic that they used to give their movies excellent reviews. Also the graffiti fiasco where they hired people secretly to do psp adverts on buildings (after apparently paying them off too), but it was a total failure and they got busted. The theme of the blog? Trying to get a psp for xmas, yeah everyone can relate to that. They really missed their target audience COMPLETELY. WHO THE HELL SPELLS HAVE AS HAV3? IS DIS SUM TREND? SRSLY Even if this is a joke that Sony knows about (which they should, the company who made the site has Sony as a customer), this is not good publicity. A giant organization does not benefit from all types of publicity. Everybody knows about Sony and people who would buy a psp obviously are included. This site does nothing but insult the gamer's intelligence. O LAWD DEM COMMENTS IS DA SHIZZZZZZZZZ

Posted: 12/13/2006 3:26 PM

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Zurreco

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Joined: 8/1/2004
Posts: 2687
Location: Seattle, WA

Simplest response: Terrible attempt at viral marketing by Sony. No one will buy a PSP because of this, and Sony now realizes it.

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Posted: 12/13/2006 3:28 PM

Post subject: Re: don't just wear it – pwn it!!1!

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moozooh

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L4yer wrote:

this is not good publicity

I wonder what of the recent actions by Sony served them as a good publicity? Apparently, I can't think of anything even remotely close to that.

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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.

Posted: 12/13/2006 3:32 PM

Post subject: Re: don't just wear it – pwn it!!1!

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Zurreco

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moozooh wrote:

I wonder what of the recent actions by Sony served them as a good publicity? Apparently, I can't think of anything even remotely close to that.

Why, their condescending and misleading commercials, that's what!

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Posted: 12/13/2006 3:32 PM

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L4yer

Joined: 6/12/2006
Posts: 368

Their marketing is awful, the only thing that has saved them in the video game business are some select franchises that started with FF, then DQ. But i do think they have made the gaming industry progress (for the better?), Nintendo had to rethink its strategy and Microsoft had to really step up to the plate.

Posted: 12/13/2006 3:34 PM

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OgreSlayeR

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Joined: 7/12/2004
Posts: 524
Location: USA

Yeah, but, Ridddddddge Raceeeer!

Working on: Command and Conquer PSX Nod Campaign

Posted: 12/13/2006 3:35 PM

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zefiris

Joined: 4/11/2006
Posts: 487
Location: North of Russia :[

Huh, everybody hates Sony? o_O

Posted: 12/13/2006 3:35 PM

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Zurreco

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Posts: 2687
Location: Seattle, WA

zefiris wrote:

Huh, everybody hates Sony? o_O

Just their advertising department. And the PSP. I really liked Shadow of the Colossus :|

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Posted: 12/13/2006 3:37 PM

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L4yer

Joined: 6/12/2006
Posts: 368

zefiris wrote:

Huh, everybody hates Sony? o_O

I think even the sony fanboys don't really like sony the company.. they just like the games for their platforms. Take those away and I GUARANTEE a lot of those same people couldn't care less about them. err couldn't care less

Posted: 12/13/2006 3:39 PM

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zefiris

Joined: 4/11/2006
Posts: 487
Location: North of Russia :[

I wonder how many people would notice that commercial that was quoted for "wii is a more funny..." if they did not say it... Same here. They'l have to pay penalty or somethink, but they'll be noticed for sure. Bad guys always become popular somehow :D Reverse psychology or whatsoever...

Posted: 12/13/2006 3:47 PM

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L4yer

Joined: 6/12/2006
Posts: 368

It's almost like the company is from another planet, they just have no idea what they are doing. Sure, they are a Japanese company but i don't see a company like Sharp doing ridiculous adverts in the western world. This pretty much sums it up: 'Anyone that thinks that this is a good/effective advertisement, even in light of the negative responses it's receiving here and on other blogs, probably thinks that standing outside a bowling alley shooting a shotgun in the air would be an excellent way to attract customers.'

Posted: 12/13/2006 4:17 PM

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Tub

Joined: 6/25/2005
Posts: 1377

Zurreco wrote:

Just their advertising department. And the PSP.

Don't forget the DRM, spyware, lawsuits against innocents, overpriced and uninspired consoles, ...

m00

Posted: 12/13/2006 5:12 PM

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Boco

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Joined: 3/30/2004
Posts: 1354
Location: Heather's imagination

zefiris wrote:

Huh, everybody hates Sony? o_O

I don't like the company or the hardware, or its restrictions on the kind of products that can be released for it (200 crappy 3D games a month, but as soon as Working Designs wants to release Growlanser or Goemon, and as soon as Capcom wants to release Rockman Complete Works, etc, it's "not 3D enough" to kill off the less-adept-with-3D Saturn), or its marketing, or pretty much anything about it. But there are a lot of games for its hardware that are good, mostly because the hardware itself was the most common game device for a long long time.

someone is out there who will like you. take off your mask so they can find you faster. I support the new Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun.

Posted: 12/13/2006 5:29 PM

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hisatoki

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Joined: 6/21/2006
Posts: 20
Location: Nara, Japan

zefiris wrote:

Huh, everybody hates Sony? o_O

I hate sony because its devices has "Sony timer". My portable audio was broken in only one year though I politely used it......too sad... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_timer

Posted: 12/13/2006 5:43 PM

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Gigafrost

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Joined: 5/3/2004
Posts: 366

I quite enjoyed this slashdot post dissecting the (a?) blog post from this: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=211352&cid=17208942

07-24-2009: 2595 anime DVDs and counting...

Posted: 12/13/2006 7:44 PM

Post subject: Sony responded!

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L4yer

Joined: 6/12/2006
Posts: 368

Busted. Nailed. Snagged. As many of you have figured out (maybe our speech was a little too funky fresh???), Peter isn't a real hip-hop maven and this site was actually developed by Sony. Guess we were trying to be just a little too clever. From this point forward, we will just stick to making cool products, and use this site to give you nothing but the facts on the PSP. Sony Computer Entertainment America HAHAHHAHAHHAAHHA edit: oh wow, they only had that up for a couple minutes.. they took the site down. Zipatoni (the marketing company) is in deep doo doo. Hilarious though. Have a screenshot of just before it went down: [URL=http://img508.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pspcj5.jpg]

[/URL] edit again: ok it's back up... but really WHY, DEAR GOD JUST KILL IT NOW

Posted: 12/13/2006 8:27 PM

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BoltR

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Joined: 8/12/2004
Posts: 651
Location: Alberta, Canada

Gigafrost wrote:

I quite enjoyed this slashdot post dissecting the (a?) blog post from this: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=211352&cid=17208942

Aww, but I use colons. Semi-colons too. I must not be using the internet.