lol, when you compare the new line to the old one, the new one is more offensive. Not that either bothers me, but trivializing a war is much worse than making fun of, uh, nigerian millionaires? I really don't understand how the Nigerians could be offended. Pussies.

Wat? World War I?

Couldn't they just rewrite the line to be funny? Have they tried that yet?

That's a pretty stupid new line, but this sort of thing's nothing new. Remember when those self-righteous chucklefucks at PETA bullied SEGA into pulling that Samba de Amigo ad because it had a trained monkey in it? Man, I don't envy whoever works in gaming marketing today, having to make sure everything's 108% politically correct.

Next thing you know, game commercials will be nothing but tools grinning ear-to-ear on or near a couch, making widely exaggerated motions with their controllers, with maybe three seconds of game footage if you're lucky.

They should have just removed the word "nigerian" - Job done.

Treat's it's customers like assholes? - Uh this isn't Microsoft you're talking about you know. Sony treat us good, sure a little bit of a pricing issue here in the UK - They don't get currency conversion - But apart from that they treat us REAL nice.

I've enjoyed a free out of warantee repair on my PS3, free online, great service, and an extremely valuable console which when I bought it was sold at a loss! So no, they don't treat their customers like assholes, nor do they treat Nigerian's like assholes, unless they're asking for their bank details!


I didn't even need to scroll up to see which Lardarse-Gamesmaster-lookalike wrote this.... Up to your usual tricks mr Sterling.

Sexualchocolate: Sony and Microsoft both treat their customers like shit. Nearly all companies do, and that was the point I was making. Seriously, maybe you should stop being a hypersensitive bitch and jumping to the defense of a corporation that doesn't even know you exist, and wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.

I saw the commercial again, shortly after Jim's last article on this and I noticed that they switched the lines.

It's a bit funny, considering Nigeria had nothing to do with the "Nigerian Letter."

It's not bullshit? This is the reason people complain, because companies will bow down to it. And leave it to Sony to give in.

It was such a stupid whiny complaint, a joke that went over their heads. It's tiring to see these apologies for the stupidest things when the only thing wrong with the comment were the people complaining about it. Grow a set of balls and don't bow down to this whiny nonsense.

This just in:

Nigeria is in possession of a pussification ray.

Lol @ "Lardarse-Gamesmaster".

well, obviously looking slightly racist is something you're not afraid of cause its pretty clear to everyone you are a racist little sh!td!ck. oh poor discriminated against rich white men boohoo. How does this have anything to do with rich white men anyway?bc sony has a white ceo? quit projecting you fat entitled racist sh!t. They apologized because their profits were at risk is that really that hard to understand? One person vs millions? Really? Whining about apologizing over whining. nice job douche. why don't you put down the double bacon mayonaise sandwiches and write a real fuck!n article you double chinned sh!t breath m0therfu(ker. How much bacon wrapped bacon is microsoft bribing you with? Or do you bend over backwards for them bc their name describes your dick so perfectly. get ass cancer and die slow b!tch.

Like i say, in my experience, whether they give a shit about me personally or not Sony have treated me really well ever since I bought my PS1. Sure, they wouldn't piss on me if I was on fire, I wouldn't expect that from a major global company, but they do make me happy, keep me sweet and support any Sony product i buy to my full expectations.

I assume they treat all of their customers the same?

I mean, I know of nothing specific that they've done to screw over their customers, even the way the PS3 plays almost any media file, or uses any laptop HDD, or any blue-tooth headset - all areas where they "could" have screwed their customers into buying more perhipherals from them - wink wink. - but chose not to.

Or perhaps it's because they don't fork out for exclusive DLC or something, is that screwing over their customers? Or is that a result of not screwing over their customers and not being able to spend so much on such petty things?

Perhaps they release false "exclusives" that are really just timed exclusives that are later ported to competing consoles, with added features, or is that just Microshaft?

Is it something to with them providing everything you need with their latest console despite putting off a number of consumers with the price when they could have easily supplied a barebones console and wallet raped us for the rest of the required parts?

Perhaps it's the way they update firmware so often, the bastards! Or how they waited until their console was FINISHED before releasing it - mother fuckers! Or maybe because they don't charge me to connect and game through the internet connection that i already pay for, how dare they!

Nope, still struggling with how Sony treat us like assholes.....

Even this post is about them doing all they can to keep everyone happy while trying to turn a profit (even the fucking Nigerians!) and mr I-love-Killzone2-and-my-PS3-but-hate-Sony just couldn't resist spinning it into them being pussies.

(I have absolutely no reason to "suck Sony's cock" so much, I'm literally putting over my opinion of Sony based on how my dealings with them have worked - This place is a throbbing, adolescent, hive of 360fanboys, you need your Sexualchocolate's to even things out around here.)

@Bioautographical

Uhhh...

We might not decide who becomes offended, but we can certainly make loads of fun of them.

Everyone knows I love to get a good chance to jump on someone and yell at them when they fuck up, but maybe I'm just not seeing it today. I think a lot of people in these comments need to go, take a deep breath, look at themselves in the mirror, and think about something thats calmly composed and inflammatory to say. If they can't, well, then they should just be quiet.

But either way, I;ve gotten a great amount of enjoyment from these ludicrous comments of people who like to act like they're defending some downtrodden minority. The self-righteousness mixed with stupidity. Two great tastes that taste great together!

Wow. BruceWang. Just Wow.

I take my hat off to you sir, now THAT is a proper RAGE. To anyone that thinks I was ranting and raging, check BW's shit out - Top class raging sir!

Yall have yourselves a good weekend.

Still laughing at "bacon wraped in bacon bribes" - it's funny cuz from the look of Jim and the general slant on his articles, it could well be true!

In the wise words of another of Jim's lookalikes, "Screw you guys, i'm going home."

Shoul've changed the line to "You can't believe everything you reads on the internet. Otherwise Jim Sterling would be a racist bacon-sandwich eating Microsoft whore by now."

I'd have people like Bruce Wang and Sexualchocolate banned, but I'm not sure they understand that they're actually failing to upset me, and instead helping me make money.

That's pretty lame of Sony.

I imagine, though, that they caved in so quickly was because, as mentioned in the article, they didn't want to look slightly racist. Normally that wouldn't be a big deal, but perhaps they considered that, with those Sony PSP ads that caused a huge stir about racism, they didn't want to take their chances again.

Jim, seriously, why do you even engage these guys in the first place?

I don't get the Sterling hate. I mean, sure he slagged off the PS3 time and again but everyone has an opinion (regardless how wrong it is)
IMO, Jim has done a sterling job here. ^__^

The only thing stupid about this article is Jim's use of the word "racism"...

I don't know how it is in the UK, but when someone makes fun of Canadians, we don't usually call it racist... Or was I not alerted that Canadian is now a race?

I haven't read deeply into this, but I don't even think Nigerians called it racist. I think that term is just a hot button for views and argument, lately. Especially when used so obviously incorrectly, as is the case here. Thanks, Jim.

DreRox:

You obviously did not read the article correctly. I never said Nigerians called it racist. I mentioned how people are afraid to look racist. Please read the post before criticizing, please.

You're not even making sense. I guess that what happens when you can't win a single argument you start.

I guess Sony had no choice other than to buckle under..

After all, they'd likely get twice the spam from them if they didn't.

..Err, scratch that, now they took the bait, and now they'll get 3X as much u.u