Pepsi Nex is a drink. Dynasty Warriors NEXT is a videogame. This is how great marketing is born.
This beautiful wallpaper, showing Lu Bu drowning his sorrows with some tantalizing Pepsi flavor, is available from Pepsi's Japanese site. It's already been made my desktop wallpaper, because it's basically the greatest image known to man.
What I love most is just how intense Lu Bu looks. He's drinking that Pepsi like a motherf*cker and he doesn't care who knows it!
Sadly, there are no in-game tie-ins as of yet. This is the first time I'd actually want shameless in-game advertising, because it would be the most gloriously stupid thing on Earth. Parasitic ad campaigns are perfectly fine if they're utterly ridiculous.
[Thanks to the person who showed me this, but who I forgot because I am terrible]
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10:00 AM on 12.08.2011 | 
2) make shitty game
3) combine the two.
4)???
5) profit!!!
Yeah, this product was worked into Tiger & Bunny, but the whole inclusion and reason for obvious advertisements in that anime are kinda justified.
But first I must conquer thirst with a refreshing Pepsi Nex!
"Everybody Pepsi! Drink Pepsi! Pepsi, only my choice."
Also, I'm so starting to drink Pepsi in public like Lu Bu.
FUCK YEAH
Nathan Drake endorses subway = Stupid selling out piece of garbage
Lu Bu Drinking Pepsi = Genius
How does this logic make any sense?
Not trolling just want to see how you see this as any different
This will still be my new wallpaper just because it's so fucking rediculous.
wtf LMAO XD
One of my favourite drinks! You often get little toys with them so I will check if they come with any Dynasty Warrior things for young Jimmy.
Pepsi did not exist in ancient Japan where the Dynasty Warriors games take place. This effectively undermines any serious attempt at actually successfully advertising Pepsi because the viewer is drawn to the obvious historical impossibility and therefore simply cannot take it seriously.
Nathan Drake, however, could easily enter a Subway because the Uncharted games take place in our time where Subway also exists. Since it's possible for Drake to eat Subway products, the advertising can be seen as successful, therefore he's a sell-out.