This was apparently real, from a flyer at an event in 1996.
The PlayStation 3 baby commercial was also something else. Playstation has had some real weird marketing moments.
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What in the what
If we're talking about it then it woeked
I get where you're coming from, but ads don't just want people talking, they want to turn people into buyers.
After the success of the PS2, virtually their entire market knew about the PS3. But even with those weird ads and their previous massive success with the PS2, the PS3 was selling terribly poorly around the time of the baby ad, IIRC.
That's just creepy lol
to be fair more powerful than completly non-existant isn't really that impressive.
Unless they mean the idea of God that has driven the religious movements throughout all of human history. Now that is a real god.
fair point
Reminds me of John Lennon who said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus…
There were protests and record burnings and they were banned on many radio stations and they stopped touring, some say because of the backlash….
In 1980, he was murdered by a Christian fan of the Beatles, Mark David Chapman, who later cited Lennon's quote as one of his possible motives in the killing.
That's really not saying much, I would rather have a console with at least a little power.
If the PS1 is more powerful than God, then what is the PS5? 😮
More powerful than "God 5"
If we assume God is God 0, then power(PS(x)) > power(God x - 1)
Why would you make that assumption though? They're clearly index 1 people over at Sony, considering the next PlayStation to release was the PS2
Unlike whatever the fuck Microsoft is doing. Irish Logarithms?
It goes pretty hard, but it's no "John Romero's about to make you his bitch." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana#/media/File:Daikatana_infamous_advertisement.jpg
If they even had a fraction of the knowledge about today’s games they’d shit themselves lmao.
Just wait until these fancy AI content generators are integrated by AAA companies and aren’t just mods.
🤩 stay positive y’all, happy new year!
The other day someone posted an NES cover and it straight up said "ultra realistic computer generated graphics" on it. 🤣
At the time, the comparison was probably against Atari 2600 and other early systems
Open world RPG's like Bannerlord or Skyrim will be "real" alternative reality. Just think, today you can chit-chat in Bannerlord with general NPC. Tomorrow you can get radiant quest from giver by talking to Jarls. In future you can find secret quests and spell-check your way around in Fallout.
Yeah, I'm not sure who kicked it off but the Nintendo, Sega wars in the 80s kind of started with the quirky 'edgy' crap and that carried over into the PS/Xbox era. The Nintendo power mags had some seriously nonsense ads and the tv commercials kind of ran the gambit. A lot of 'we're gamers, parents just wouldn't understand' type ads. Here's one that even teen me was like 'wtf?' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-qBkWerZDg
WTF that horrible way to advertise that game.
I'm not sure if the mental/high person is meant to represent Link or the player... Which one is worse?
The only thing I can think, is it was marketed to those 'cool' parents. "Like, wow man! My kid needs this edgy game!" Even that's a stretch..
I'm so glad this is the one you linked. Such an icon of a commercial lol
This style is drastically better than anything today.
At least it's an ethos
Source?
There are a few articles about their controversial ads. Here's one that includes it: https://sabukaru.online/articles/playstation-2-advertisements
These all look like ads that you would see in Cyberpunk 2077
Anyone remember this XBox ad?
Apparently it was banned, but I remember seeing it fairly regularly so it must've been around for a while before that happened...
Lol yes..yes I do! I didn't know it was banned because it was played quite a bit on whatever I used to watch. Man I want to say G4 but I'm not sure the time lines work out.
Sure. Ever seen god being powerful?