Aha, so everything what they said in these ads are lies, hm?
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Some of the best ads ever. From an artistic point of view, they are a work of art. The creators are simply geniouses. Great talents.
They manage to create a different vibe of what we already know. Exaggeration ofcourse just like every ad but beautifully made, and transfers its points in the mind of the viewer.
I dont know where Sony gets these talents but I remember a video tape from Games Masters year ago that had a Playstation specific ad, Nintendo specific ad, konami specific ad, and Ubisoft, and clearly Sony made the most artistic, most beautiful most atmospheric of them all. The PS1 seemed like a gamer's dream come true.
I must have watched their ad hundreds of times just for the aesthetics.
You are just jealous because we give more attention to women than you
They manage to create a different vibe of what we already know. Exaggeration ofcourse just like every ad but beautifully made, and transfers its points in the mind of the viewer.
I dont know where Sony gets these talents but I remember a video tape from Games Masters year ago that had a Playstation specific ad, Nintendo specific ad, konami specific ad, and Ubisoft, and clearly Sony made the most artistic, most beautiful most atmospheric of them all. The PS1 seemed like a gamer's dream come true.
I must have watched their ad hundreds of times just for the aesthetics.
People please! Let's leave human appendages out of the thread, or i'll start off and you won't like it.
You are just jealous because we give more attention to women than you
BS as in their arguments being presented beatifully? Never enough space, cell is fast.
I smell the ghost of the Emotion Engine.
"... with this much brain power, is the Cell Broadband Engine even smarter than you?"
If you buy into this advertising, yes.
I miss the days when people used to talk about number of colours and max. sprites, where you had limited ways to misrepresent. People look back on old adverts and laugh. I look at this and cringe [Edit: you can't realy laugh till it's in the past].
Btw, how do you balance out reality and emotion on a spec sheet? I think B3D should add these as catagories when benchmarking new cards.
"... with this much brain power, is the Cell Broadband Engine even smarter than you?"
If you buy into this advertising, yes.
I miss the days when people used to talk about number of colours and max. sprites, where you had limited ways to misrepresent. People look back on old adverts and laugh. I look at this and cringe [Edit: you can't realy laugh till it's in the past].
Btw, how do you balance out reality and emotion on a spec sheet? I think B3D should add these as catagories when benchmarking new cards.
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Oh i LOVED the old days, when power was measured by... what was it? "parallax planes" or levels for 2D games?? The more the better of course...
Parallax scrolling backgrounds that's it!
I was like "oooh that's teh 3D!! It's like teh virtual reality!1"...
Ahh the memories...
I was like "oooh that's teh 3D!! It's like teh virtual reality!1"...
Ahh the memories...
Where did I say that?
There is exaggeration and some clever wording going on there, especially the Blu-Ray video. The underlying message of the adverts is true but you can't deny the fact they have exaggerated some things.
I do love the ads though.
A lot of it is just plain false though, like Cell being so smart, it might be smarter than you. It's thick. Can't do anything for itself. The code you see is actually the work of the developers' brains impressing their smarts onto a lump of stupid silicon. It can't think at all. Cell's 'artificial intelligence' is only as a good as a simulacrum of the developers intelligence.
Lots of hyperbole, none of it valid on reflection. It's just thrown in to sound good. And it's just the same promises we get every tech upgrade. If the ads were to be believed, we'd have had computers smarter than us in the 80s!
Well, i could tell u about a few people who would be more stupid than an abacus... Let alone Cell...
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Well he does say it in the form of a question and not a fact.
And even though it can't actually do anything without a programmer's instructions, it is still possibly smarter than a few people I know.
Exageration in these ads is noticable though by people. The consumer knows that, for example, the CELL isnt smarter than a real brain. But he understands that the point was that the cell is mighty powerful. It doesnt mean he will take everything literally, because its obvious that its a beautifully made ad.
There werent actual misinformation, or outlandish claims like "the Cell is smarter than a human barin". Instead its a question that doesnt need an answer. Its just there to transfer the point.
Exageration is expected, especially from such ads, so I dont think its really a big deal when we can realise that.
I mean we see many crazy ads everyday, drinks that wake the beast within you, a TV that can display images so real you almost feel you can jump inside them, cars that transform into robots, a chocolate bar that is so tasty you cant live without it etc.
They all exagerate and ofcourse we know it.
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its coming soon buddy so i guess we have to wait.
The BRAVIA adverts by Fallon are a different class. The first one is exceptional the new paint one is still striking but not quite as good as the first....maybe that's just me preferring San Francisco to dreary Glasgow.
Totally! I felt the same. It was a bit like watching an episode of Little Britain, with paint all over...