SONY use PGR3 screenie to sell GT:HD

[DVFtaxman]

Oh dear, it goes from bad to worse for Sony's marketing department. What on earth are they playing at, and how could they allow themselves to get caught out in such a blatant way!

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/25/sony-site-confuses-gt-hd-with-pgr3/

 

[Shifty Geezer]

They've fixed it already. All I can say is...wow, I didn't know Sony had finally got a decent content portal for PSP! Can the PSP play these movies directly?

 

[infinity4]

they are not as quick as those spending 24/7 trying to find these sorts of flaws

 

[heliosphere]

They've fixed it already. All I can say is...wow, I didn't know Sony had finally got a decent content portal for PSP! Can the PSP play these movies directly?

Maybe this is a cunning bit of viral marketing to bring the site to the Interweb's collective attention.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

If so, it's the first piece of viral marketting that's ever worked IMO!

 

[Bobbler]

Maybe this is a cunning bit of viral marketing to bring the site to the Interweb's collective attention.

I don't think you could call this cunning. Generally you don't want people coming to your site for negative reasons, and with the way the internet is today (where it's pick on sony day, every day), you'd think they'd try to avoid something like this as much as possible.

It was probably some harmless goof up... it doesn't really matter. PGR3 doesn't look as good anyways =p

 

[archie4oz]

Oh dear, it goes from bad to worse for Sony's marketing department. What on earth are they playing at, and how could they allow themselves to get caught out in such a blatant way!

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/25/sony-site-confuses-gt-hd-with-pgr3/

Sony doesn't have *a* "marketing department"... Nor do marketing departments manage website design...

I don't think you could call this cunning.

Indeed.. More like a big ooops. Usually promotional material goes through legal before the designer can push it live, so it's rather amusing that this went though (OTOH Connect's traffic is low enough that I'm rather amused it got noticed).

 

[dantruon]

any chance the pic was photoshoped?

 

[PARANOiA]

any chance the pic was photoshoped?

http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007/01/25/psp-connect-using-pgr3-screenshot.aspx

No.

 

[pipo]

May I be the first to say: LOL!

 

[Acert93]

I see Sony shares my love for PGR3 Nice tastes those Sony boys have!

 

[London Geezer]

Honestly... Sony's Marketing department must have been paid so much due to the PS1 and PS2 success, that now they just don't care anymore. Either that or they spent it all on alcohol and drugs...

 

[Capeta]

Honestly... Sony's Marketing department must have been paid so much due to the PS1 and PS2 success, that now they just don't care anymore. Either that or they spent it all on alcohol and drugs...

SONY's marketing department had other projects that backfired a few months ago like that PSP website with glowing praise from fake consumers and that PSP graffiti marketing campaign fiasco, so I'd say they spent it on alcohol and drugs.

 

[rabidrabbit]

It's an ad agency fuck-up, not a Sony fuck-up.
Sure, Sony's accepted the website design, but it's not very realistic to expect someone at Sony marketing who accepts these things to be able to tell easily the image was from PGR3, hell I was fooled 100%.
How easy it is for some gaming-illiterate AD to file a PGR3 image with the name "GT_car_graphixx.tif", or accidentally pull out an image from the "Generic car game graphics" folder where he had previously saved a cool image he'd received for previous assignment from Microsoft.

 

[Black Dragon37]

Is it me, or has Sony managed to turn this to their advantage?

 

[Shifty Geezer]

BTW - isn't the title of this thread wrong? GT:HD is a free download, so they're not using PGR3 to sell anything.

 

[Cheezdoodles]

Maybe its used to sell PS3s?

 

[Nesh]

Maybe its used to sell PS3s?

They dont need PGR3 pics to do that.

 

[Metalmurphy]

They would be better off with a GT HD ingame shot :S This was most likely just a silly mistake from the webdesigner.

 

[jonnyp]

Oh dear, it goes from bad to worse for Sony's marketing department. What on earth are they playing at, and how could they allow themselves to get caught out in such a blatant way!

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/25/sony-site-confuses-gt-hd-with-pgr3/

I doubt they'd try and sell GTHD with such a lackluster game as PGR3....