http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051229/...e/graffiti_ads
At least its not Tombstone advertising or some craphead changing his name to "PSP" for a year.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051229/...e/graffiti_ads
At least its not Tombstone advertising or some craphead changing his name to "PSP" for a year.
Those tags are so stupid, I especially hate the one little freak which is licking a PSP. Not even good enough for hot topic tees. I wish Sony would fire Phil Harrison and Kaz Hirai, they are idiots and have no idea how to market and manage this system.
edit: And where are the PSP TV ads? The last one I saw was way back in March with the Franz Ferdinand track. The ads on Sony's site where people are simply throwing a PSP back and forth are dull as dust. Sony used to be almost as competent as Sega's Genny ad team.
Networking with the hip crowd and being streetwise sold the psx in Europe. I clearly remember how all the big underground DJ's in UK were on Sony's payroll, and by god it worked. Now this new campaign just seems silly and desperate to me.
omg PSP sux amirite
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Originally Posted by sleeveboy
I for one love my PSP. I just don't like the way it's being marketed as of now.
Not to beat a dead horse/topic:
Perhaps a lower price point would move more PSPs...
LAWLQuote:
Originally Posted by some stupid bitch
that comment is wrong from so many angles.
Playing constantly. I have no idea how you're missing them since I don't watch TV and I've seen about fifteen of them in the last week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dylan1CC
Almost all of them are primarily black-and-white animated sketches with squirrels or dustballs or whatever going on about how something they have is now portable (like with the squirrels they keep yelling about how they have nuts which they can take anywhere).
I can't believe how horrible and inept the PSP marketing is.
Hmmmm, now I am glad I haven't seen them.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
Maybe they just need some good games on there that people think are cool? These ads just suck and are trying TOO hard to be... "something". Sony failed to make the PSP cool, and it's too late.
They also, IMO, continue to give the PSP and identity crisis. I know Sony wants to market it as the ultimate portable entertainment do everything devise, but is that working for them? I say it's not. Sony should have just marketed it as a PS2 in your hand. Everything else it could do would have followed.
I actually don't think they're that bad. I thought they were humorous in their stupidity (which is what they're going for) but there's too few of them getting played too often. They aren't as grating as those horrendous Radioshack Christmas commercials were but they definately need some new material.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dylan1CC
Squirrel
Dustball
The squirrel ad is dumb but I like the art, reminds me of Jhonen Vasquez.
But "PSP: It's like carpet you can watch outside" gets a big "huh?" from me.
Oh yeah and I love that game ad site, they even have flippin' Star Parodia commercials. Unbelievable:
http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_g...al.asp?ID=2286
http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_g...al.asp?ID=2287
... Those aren't bad... but as someone who would like to be given a reason to go ahead and buy a PSP these commericals do nothing to make me want to go out and buy one yet. ... Hell, if anything, I think it just made me want to buy it less. Gaming commericals need gaming footage.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
Dear Sony,
Please get your goddamn act together or just admit the PSP is just the "walkman for the new age" and the gaming aspect is an added bonus for every six months.
Thanks,
Nick
Surely they could have found a better metaphor for the PSP than "portable carpet"...
Sonyphobes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fags
Maybe they should stop marketing it to nomads and start marketing it to normal people.Quote:
"With PSP being a portable product, our target is what we consider to be urban nomads,"
What the hell is an urban nomad? Is that, like, a street kid in a poor area who spends more time roaming around then at his home?Quote:
Originally Posted by stormy
If so, as said before, make it something they won't mind spending. "Urban nomads" use to bitch about a used GBA being forty bucks.
Mice
Hells Yeah
Big guns
Some of them have game footage.
Fixed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Revoltor
I think it's pretty cool. I dig guerrila marketing. even if the designs are a little fruity.
A handheld gadget like this will never be 'cool'. They should have marketed it as a geek tool.Quote:
Originally Posted by JefmcC
It's cool to a geek. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by dakidski