New direction for Sony's ads in the US.Out with the creepy and in new.
http://www.psu.com/node/11473
http://us.wii.com/experience_gallery.jsp
http://www.psu.com/node/11473
http://us.wii.com/experience_gallery.jsp
Wii exper...er I mean Sony lifestyle ads..
- Thread starter ninzel
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Heh. 'Fun' they say? Time to bring up this old PS3/Wii/Apple spoof again, methinks. Took them long enough to catch on... 
ManuVlad3.0
Regular
Heh. 'Fun' they say? Time to bring up this old PS3/Wii/Apple spoof again, methinks. Took them long enough to catch on...
"Cheap and fun"
I don't know....it seems like u might catch something from the wii girl.......I'll take the fat chick......
.Melchiah.
Regular
Check out the date on these PStwo lifestyle ads:
http://www.scee.presscentre.com/imagelibrary/default.asp?SubjectID=1477
So, who ripped off who?
Sony copied Nintendo. Obviously. Showing people in a living room playing computer games is such a gobsmackingly original and inventive idea, no-one but Nintendo could think of it. Sony have just posted up some new pics and back dated them to not look like they're copying. But we all know the truth. The idea would never, ever have occured to Sony to show ordinary folk playing their console and looking happy with it. The very notion of showing customers using and enjoying your product is rare genius, and it took Nintendo to develop the idea. I wouldn't be surprised if other companies also started showing ads where customers are seen to use their product! I bet car companies will be the first. I bet they'll start showing people driving their cars and looking cheery. Nintendo have really pushed forwards the bounds of advertising and everyone's going to be rushing to copy them!
Little_Donkey
Newcomer
In all the sony catalogues they used these kind of pic.(people watching tv and stuff, or listening to music and stuff)
So its not new
So saying sony copied from nintendo is kinda bs
I would say nintendo copied from Sony
So its not new
So saying sony copied from nintendo is kinda bs
I would say nintendo copied from Sony
Heh. 'Fun' they say? Time to bring up this old PS3/Wii/Apple spoof again, methinks. Took them long enough to catch on...
Only a question of time before we see the correct answer to that one:
http://www.tmz.com/tmz_main_video?titleid=909952955
Granny loves Wii! Well they do say as you get older you get more like a child.
ManuVlad3.0
Regular
There must be some name for this amusing phenomenon..."The Nintendo Originator Theory"? We need something snappier, something that rolls off the tongue..
..oh well, maybe Nintendo will invent it for us, as it does everything
God said "let there be light". And Shigeru Myiamoto said "Say Please"
I'm almost sure there was sarcasm in there somewhere, but I can't quite find it.
,,, I hand the pepsi I was sipping come out my nose laughing when I read that you posted that...ahh. it burns so bad...but way to funny!!!..They most certaintly need to so something, I have Dish Network in my area and I see Nintendo adds for the Wii on a regualer basis, but I have yet to see one from Sony on the PS3.
tongue_of_colicab
Veteran
Than again, people willing to buy a ps3 probably already bought it or will do so in the near future. I think there is little use in showing alot of tv comercials for a 600dollar console you know, looking at current sales, wont be bought by your average consumer anyway. In europe its alot better though. Not that I have ever seen one ps3 commercial on tv but there are plenty of sponsor signs in the Champions league so just about everybody has to atleast have seen the ps3 name.
Isn't that back-to-front thinking? Surely Nintendo are wasting money advertising because they're selling as much as they can make, while Sony need to drum up interest because they're not selling, and part of that is convincing people it's worth 600 bucks. The feature set of PS3 has improved quite a lot since launch, and showing that it's better, and getting better all the time, is going to attract more customers than keeping quiet and not telling them what it does, leaving Joe Public thinking it's just a 600 (Euro)dollar games machine.
Whereas you seem to be saying that if your product isn't selling, advertising is a bad idea.
PGR3 isn't a Wii title, though.
This is the most common way to do ads, "happy people using products".
Sony Electronics have been using this kind of lifestyle-images in broschyres, ads and magazines for the last decad... like forever, so I really don't think it's news that Sony Computer is starting to use them again.
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