Deliciously shameless, that is! Phantasy Star Portable 2 is on the way, and Sega has revealed that it will be joining forces with Pizza Hut in order to fill the RPG with pie-based shenanigans. Just take a look at the attached imagery for proof of how tastily tasteless it will be.
A virtual Pizza Hut restaurant will set up shop in the Gurhal Galaxy, where players can buy all sorts of goodies, chief among them being Cheese-Kun (Japanese Pizza Hut mascot) figures to decorate their room with. Equipment items will also be on sale, taking the form of a pizza box shield and a pizza pan weapon. Seriously.
Of course, it wouldn't be a pizza restaurant without pizzas. Hungry gamers will be able to nab a seafood pizza for 2,500 meseta, cheese & cheese pizza for 1,900 meseta, and a coffee for 1,000 meseta. This has to be one of the most ridiculous examples of in-game advertising I've ever seen. I can't help but applaud Sega's brazen approach.
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12:40 PM on 10.13.2009
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Wasn't the product placement something different for Japan? Like Fanta?
If you have played the PSO series as long as I have you will know this is not the 1st time of ingame promotions items, this is normal for Japanese games that are orpg where loot is a big deal.
Pizza hut did this before with a monster hunter promo.
You can see it here: http://www.psphyper.com/psp/monster-hunter-likes-pizza/
I just remembered Fanta was the other product placement revealed in PS Portable 2.
That goes good with pizza.
oy.
now Phantasy Star Zero...
Maybe Phantasy Star Portable 2 can tell us the secret of the three seashells too!
It's so over the top that it's funny.
I get my PSP2 to play on the PSPgo but where is my PSP to play on my PSPgo?