I just feel sad about PS3 commercials. I don't want to ridicule them, discuss them with other journalists, contemplate why they aren't great anymore or pen angry letters. I just want them to be good again. I just want to know why they are aiming at this portion of the human brain that is supposed to digest unrelated things, like why you would want to make a hammer out of peanut butter and tinfoil and what acrobats have to do with gaming.
The commercial is up at Digital Spy, should you want to watch it. The theme of the commercial is to "introduce a cast of unusual characters which each exemplify the amazing theatre of entertainment available." I'm just not feeling it. Sitting in front of my television and feeling chills over the Final Fantasy VII commercial is what I'm looking for, not this. Also, the man with the lipstick scares me.
[Thanks Jonathan!]
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12:12 PM on 12.03.2007
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Can I buy some pot from you?
Now its just getting funny to see them waste money like this like shadow said
Show us the games. Show us the movies. Show us multimedia features.
This did none of that. Therefore, it is fail.
The ridiculous thing is that you could whack any product name at the end of the add (nappies, tampons, shoes) and it would make just as much sense.
Even more ridiculous is that someone thought this was a good idea. What kind of tool would walk into a board meeting and suggest this crap as an idea for an ad? What kind of tool would agree that it should be made? Do Sony have any understanding of their key demographics? Honestly. I cannot see a single person anywhere watching that ad and then deciding to buy a PS3.
And it only makes gaming look like a pointless and stupid past-time. What does an ad like this say to the non-gaming community about gamers? Sony should just stop. They don't know what they are doing. They don't know what gamers want, and this ad further shows it.
*shakes head*
Right here.
At least now I know what was awful enough to make that plastic baby cry. He knew this was coming
Meanwhile, the rest of the world wonders how the fuck this ad has anything to do with the PS3.