Comments on: The Ten Worst PlayStation Ads

By: ManOfTeal

ManOfTeal — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:23:59 +0000

Sony’s advertisements haven’t helped them much this generation now have they? What good is it to advertise if it doesn’t help you sell your product??? That’s one of Sony’s problems, they are so damn arrogant they feel that they are such a household name that they don’t need to advertise.

And Norbit before you open your mouth I happen to know this for a fact that Sony feels this way……my father-in-law retired as a salesman from Sony three years ago and he told me Sony doesn’t feel the need to advertise because they feel their brand is so well known that they don’t need to…..maybe that is why they are losing this generation….because they are a bunch of arrogant pricks.

It’s actually fitting that you support Sony as much as you do Norbit….your thinking is the same in many regards…

Go Marlins!!!!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:46:25 +0000

All I’m gonna say is this: I remember the Head-On commercials, and there’s no way in hell I will ever buy that stuff.

By: hE bANGS tHE dRUMS

hE bANGS tHE dRUMS — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:28:59 +0000

By: hE bANGS tHE dRUMS

hE bANGS tHE dRUMS — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:26:01 +0000

What about that anooying little bastard that followed people around commenting them on their PSP? He annoyed the sh*t outta me but he got the word across:
If you buy a PSP people will annoy the sh*t outta you.

By: Norbit's Bro

Norbit's Bro — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:42:56 +0000

ps3 wins end of.

By: Norbit

Norbit — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:50:23 +0000

The ads are brilliant. What is the main purpose of them? To raise product awareness. Any idiot can show a picture of a console of a video of people playing a game for an ad but Sony make ads that serve to make people remember the brand. The simple fact that this article is essentially a giant PlayStation ad is proof of that. The ads are self perpetuating. You make a Wii ad showing people playing on the Wii and a week later every person who has seen it has forgotten it ever existed. You make a PlayStation ad of a guy with a thumb for a penis and people are emailing it to each other doing the advertisers work for them. You make a weird video and people are uploading it to YouTube and loads of other places. Can you imagine how much it would have cost Sony to show the ads to as many people who have now seen them if they had had to pay?

The idea that a gamer has been put off buying a PlayStation because of the ads is ridiculous. I can understand an imbecile being put off by an advert but a ‘gamer’? You are suggesting that some people see adverts as more important than the games? You can certainly say Sony make bad adverts from a purely artistic viewpoint because that is down to your personal tastes but in terms of advertising they are brilliant.

By: Charlie Smith

Charlie Smith — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:52:47 +0000

I agree: The PS3 advertisements are dreadful. Don’t get me wrong: There’s nothing wrong with ads that are odd or enigmatic. But, when advertisements are simply unnerving to watch and next to impossible to interpret, well, something’s wrong. Even worse, I guess, the PS3 ads come across as being blatantly pretentious, making their appeals not to the gaming base’s dominant demographic, but to techno-elitists. All around, the ads are both interesting and awful. As to whether they’ve helped to sell PS3s, probably — but then again, the ads have probably turned off as many potential customers as they’ve turned on.

By: Evismang

Evismang — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:41:23 +0000

@Norbit

Just because people remember the ads doesn’t mean they’re not bad. For instance, just about every gaming site around has made fun of game covers before. We still remember those game covers. Not because the creators were going for brand awareness, but because they were so amazingly bad.

By: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:56:54 +0000

I would have put the “Lets replace a mans penis with a thumb” ad at #1, but thats just me

By: Norbit

Norbit — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:46:34 +0000

It really does make me laugh that people think Sony’s PlayStation ads are bad

They are absolutely 100% about brand awareness and the fact that people are still talking about them years later is proof of how clever their marketing is.