i liked the baby one better

Fuck's sake sony, hire a good ad agency to do your commercials, this is the kinda stuff that makes me a little embarrassed to be a PS3 owner only, at least MS and NINTY FEATURE a lot of games in their ads, this is just advertising BS, personified.

If this is the beginning of another esoteric hipster campaign, I'm checking out.

Sony has been marketing the PS3 wrong since day one and it makes me truly sad. Since the PS3 launch just about every advertisement I've seen for the console talkes about every feature for the PS3 except the games for the actual system.

Hell, does anybody remember the '300' BluRay commercials? It was so blatantly stupid I couldnt bear it.

"Own 300 today on DVD and BluRay"
"See the artistic marvel on a stunning BluRay player"
"The Sony Playstation 3 has a built in BluRay player"
"Buy 300, watch it on your Playstation 3"
"Buy a Playstation 3"

Seriously Sony... Seriously... You're getting out-advertised by Microsoft, the company that's getting pushed around by those misinformation filled Mac/PC Apple commercials! For the love of god make commercials that show off the good games the system has, and mention that your system doesnt friggin die on you after a year!

It bugs me so much, I have both systems and the PS3 has so many unheralded perks that the 360 doesnt have and yet Sony seemingly refuses to play off that.

"but I hardly think that this kind of approach is going to stand out against the entrenched appeal of the Wii or Microsoft's new focus on selling Lips and Scene It? to families of pricks."


Hahahaha...Nice.

I like it, ergo you are wrong.

"JIM STERLING on ADS"

At first I thought that said "JIM STERLING on AIDS."

@ gamesronlygames

As far as I knew, anyone who plays boardgames or karaoke are pricks.

Oh, and the ads are dumb.

Also, leave it to Sony to actually make SackBoy look creepy. Who else could have done that but Sony's marketing?

Eh, well they are just trying to drum up anticipation right now for their full-out marketing blitz. I guess that leaving people in suspense will cause us to be excited to see what commercials come next. But the products Sony!! The products!!

Still better then the thumb penis.

Yeah I saw a couple different commercials like this. They're strange and don't even show off the product. I'll wait until I see the full ads later this month though before I pass judgement.

I prefer these kind of spots to the in-your-face approach.

Man, everybody's ads suck today. Sony's got this art film nonsense, Nintendo has douchebags and old people waving the remote around (with maybe some game footage if there's time), and Microsoft's... all I've seen of them lately is that NXE trailer, which, y'know. I miss the old days of wacky ads with catchy songs that told you how awesome this system was that you needed, of mascots beating each other up and trying to hypnotize you--of a guy in a Crash Bandicoot suit outside a Pizza Hut calling Mario out.

That exploding kid from the Tetris 2 commercial must be spinning his head with shame at today's game ads.

I'm takign out the garbage.

In slow motion.

Hey at least it isnt 'teh NewPlayStationExperience'

I kinda like them but in the first one they really should focus more on the reflected Motorstorm gameplay. Center that shit, meng.

Why yes, Sony, I did start my wish list. Seeing as I bought every holiday game I care about, it consists entirely of older games and an Ion Drum Kit, meaning you probably won't be seeing any money from my family. But thanks for checking in on me!

@ brainderailment

It absolutely is. I don't know if you were being sarcastic or not, but that's pretty entertaining.

@ original post

They're just trying to distract us from the fact that there was only one worthwhile PS3 exclusive. Also, them promising that '08 was the "year of the Playstation" was a lot of bull. The only thing my PS3 will be doing is playing Wall-E and the Dark Knight this Holiday season.

Pretty creepy.

We notice that Sony do not want to sell PS3 to the childrens...

for a moment i was expecting that damn harry Potter trailers Sound ... tu tum rum rum run rum..

Jim:

Perhaps you would approve of the commercials if there was more Sonic the Hedgehog in them?

(in before the neckbeards point out that Sonic is a Sega property)

Urgh...what the crap?
Those adverts are utter wank.

How is filming people gaping at adverts interesting? Show us the ACTUAL ADVERTS, not just bloody reflections of them.