The other day, I said Kinect appeals to nobody. I'll be honest, I didn't expect the glorified EyeToy to sell all that well. However, I underestimated exactly how hard Microsoft would try in order to push Kinect to the millions of idiots who infest the world. Now Microsoft has bought the lowest common denominator imaginable -- Justin Bieber -- and thus Kinect will sell billions.
Yep, the shameless cartoon-faced homunculus opened his world tour show with footage of himself basically advertising Kinect, much to the delight of the screaming harpies who constantly beg him to follow them on Twitter. I dread to think how much Microsoft paid to get him to do it, but I can't deny that the investment will likely pay off.
The only way Sony can counteract this is to get PlayStation Move into the next Twilight movie. Thus begins a new era of the Console Wars known simply as "IDIOTGEDDON".
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they should've just made him their new gamepad/controller. wouldn't even YOU be tempted to push his buttons and shove him in the dark place of your own from time to time?
they should've just made him their new gamepad/controller. wouldn't even YOU be tempted to push his buttons and shove him in the dark place of your own from time to time?
This will play out just like the last phase of the console war. Microsoft and Sony will dual it out for the teenybopper/screaming-girl market segment, whereas Nintendo will win by side-stepping the whole thing and going right for the gays by having Lady Gaga wear a dress made of nothing but Wiimotes.
I love the way the crowd initially goes dead as soon as they realise its an advert. After that, they eeriely fluctuate between hysteria and delayed confusion. Note the way the girls aren't sure how to react when he starts playing the rapids game.
It's like "Uhhhh...yeeeeaAAAAAAAAHHHhhhhh...er...and again...yyyyeeeeEEEEAAAhhhh..." Well, that amaused me anyway.
I’m having a hard time believing this actually exists, is having an advertisement at the start of a concert a common thing now? Are tweens that stupid?
This is going to work isn't it? The perfect consumers known as "Tweens" will see this and get a sudden urge to beg their parents for the "green wii with the camera". Millions will buy kinect only to stop using it a week later. It's going to work.
Not for nothin' but I know a guy who knows a guy who says he knows some girl Justin Bieber's supposedly married to (or supposed to marry when he's old enough to).
I never wanted to hear what a thousand screaming junior high school girls sounded like. In the words of Giant Bomb's Ryan Davis "I feel like this thing is fucking my ears."
"Hey now, we can insult Bieber without insulting gay people."
Clearly, CrispyWaffle disagrees.
More importantly, I want IDIOTGEDDON to be the new go-to term for the most distasteful, yet most functional, marketing moves for the next five years at least. Make it happen.
@ ekm29 no no no, hear me out on this one. Our suspected Mrs. Bieber went to church with Mr. "guy the guy I know knows". Then one day she tells him about this Bieber guy she's been going out with. Then, all of a sudden, Mr. "trustworthy source of information" starts hearin' this guy's name everywhere, and next thing he knows this girl's parents are signin off on "Mrs. might be a crazed fan who knew about him before Mr. "I probably should have confirmed this with him" before I started spreading this around" marryin' old Biebsy. Coincidence? You never said it might be.
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I'm pretty sure when a 26 yr old woman drinking in a bar is confused as being you and thusly aprehended for underage drinking....your chances of ever being a man are quite slim. Haloz or no haloz.
(the "you" here referring to the beibs...and yes this really happened)
to think this little shit was accidently discovered on youtube by some scumbag executive by chance. The world would have been spared this tween aggravation if only youtube sent a differnt data packet and they never saw his video. That cruel arrangemet of events i cannot forgive
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11:00 AM on 06.25.2010
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I see what you did there.
Love the use of the word :P
It's like "Uhhhh...yeeeeaAAAAAAAAHHHhhhhh...er...and again...yyyyeeeeEEEEAAAhhhh..." Well, that amaused me anyway.
Confirmed: Justin Bieber is an Achievement Whore.
Well, except for Dance Central which almost singlehandedly is making me consider Kinect.
Either way Bieber, put down the shitty Kinext games and let me PWN u on DA HALOZ. Then....only then will you be a real
Man.
'nuff said
Also
It's going to work.
Its the coming of our lord, through his son, damien bieber.
Sanguis bibimus, corpus edimus, tolle corpus Satani
Clearly, CrispyWaffle disagrees.
More importantly, I want IDIOTGEDDON to be the new go-to term for the most distasteful, yet most functional, marketing moves for the next five years at least. Make it happen.
I'm pretty sure when a 26 yr old woman drinking in a bar is confused as being you and thusly aprehended for underage drinking....your chances of ever being a man are quite slim. Haloz or no haloz.
(the "you" here referring to the beibs...and yes this really happened)
"Just Dance" took off because of the Disney Channel and Hanna Montana.
I bet they will have a limited edition Justin Bieber Xbox with his face on it bundled with a Kinect.
You're right. I'm sorry gay people. BUT I STILL HATE HIM.
Justin Beiber? Soulja Boy? Miley Cyrus?