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I'm sorry. While I love my PS3 (go ahead, bring it), and I think the upcoming title Haze looks to be good, I'm not feeling this commercial at all. It's not nearly as bad as the Bug Too! promotional video we found awhile back, but it still had me cringing.

Haze's Nectar is a liquid that aids your character as well as other team mates -- think of it as an enhancement drug. In this commercial, they inject it into a PlayStation 3 to bring its price down. A second injection brings the price down a bit more. As the video says: "Wow...amazing."

It looks like we'll still be playing the PS3 in the year 2048, proving that Sony's "long-term" goals for the system were immensely successful. And, the question begs to be asked: didn't Mantel Industries have enough Nectar in stock to get the price lower than that? Oh, and hit the SIXAXIS with some Nectar while you're at it to add in some vibration action. Does it fix RROD on Xbox 360s?

What do you think? Is this a successful commercial? Will it have you picking up a Nectar-enhanced PS3 and Haze

[Edit: Wait, isn't the first injection's sound effect the BioShock money looting sound?]


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JamesSorensen's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 10:24
JamesSorensen
I think it's pretty funny...
Nick Chester's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 10:29
Nick Chester
What ... the ... that was ... wow. What?
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 10:33
mix
I think it was supposed to be cheesy/funny The 1st injection and then "wow, let's try it again"....funny.

How much is the 299 (gdp??) in US or Canadain.....
Miike's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 10:39
Miike
399 i think in cdn...

and that commerical was crap. I don't know how, but it made me want a PS3 even less.

Ok this is what is really wrong with that commerical. Your trying to sell more PS3s and Haze. But the general public doesn't know WTF a 'Haze' is or nectar. And since they didn't show any game play, how the heck is the general public going to know?

Technically that commerical could have been about any liquid product...
soap
dish detergent
KY Jelly.... the list really goes on.
deiga-the-semivaliant's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 10:49
deiga-the-semivaliant
I've always seen these commercials as kind of sarcastic. The guy's tone of voice just screams faux seriousness to me.


The rumble controller commercial even more so.
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 10:51
Jim Sterling
That's not even horrible in a funny way. The attempts to be sarcastic were kind of lame, sadly.
Brandon Undead's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 11:00
Brandon Undead
You sure this isn't fan made or something?

The reason I ask is because IT TOTALLY SUCKS.
Cheeburga's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 11:27
Cheeburga
i lol'd.
WDot's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 11:32
WDot
Kinda dumb, but at least they didn't try to do a movie-style trailer packed with cutscenes. Wonder why they advertised the PS3's price drop more than Haze?
agentele's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 11:41
agentele
Yea, thats pretty funny add.
I also find it funny that consoles, not just ps3 but 360 etc use FPS games to baost their performance stat. aprt from some exceptions FPS are home at PC not consoles.
Just 2 weeks ago I palyed COD3 on ps3 at friends home and I can't say how much I hated the experience.
Why can't consoles use the type of games that actually relate to consoles in order to advertise, like tekken or hack/slash games.
I just hate when I see FPS game on a console.
godkow's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 12:02
godkow
@agentele

Because if they stopped making fps for consoles, they'd lose out on a whole genre of money. As long as people still buy, they will still make. (Just look at crappy ports and movie-to-game games)

This commercial was meh.
brainderailment's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 12:19
brainderailment
stupid commercial, good looking game.
brainderailment's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 12:22
brainderailment
@agentele: you shouldn't use COD3 as a benchmark for an fps experience on a console, that game sucked on everything. Try bioshock.
Kalakaua's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 12:22
Kalakaua
This has to be a joke. That's as bad as the crazy psycho baby PS3 ads.
bipolar beers's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 12:25
bipolar beers
that commercial was terrible. ill still play haze but damn that sucked. they could ask any random person off the street to make a haze commercial with the lowest budget possible and it would be better than that.
Hiltz's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 12:58
Hiltz
Whoever wrote that for the stupid commercial is probably responsible for writing the stupid story for Haze.
foxhound009's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 13:40
foxhound009
omg... that's the fakest comercial I've seen this month. they've just cut the price like few weeks ago... they won't do it again this soon.
+ they're adding an game to it?

do you really believe it?
foxhound009's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 13:42
foxhound009
ow... 2048 :}, funny.. I guess
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 13:59
Justice
that sucked
luvmysegadc's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 14:20
luvmysegadc
WTF?! Maybe if Sony forced customers to buy 5 PS3 titles at MSRP and get a PS3 system for free, I would care.
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 14:29
MechaMonkey
I have never wanted a PS3 less.
katz's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 15:00
katz
@ Brandon Undead yes it is a fan-made ad. probably an x-box fan though, because it's goal is to discredit the ps3 and haze, instead of promote them.
FuriousGeorge's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 15:26
FuriousGeorge
any way on getting my hands on taht serum.... to inject it into the IS-f..... I really want that fucking car and its all the more accessible with a 40% discount... sigh....
Jetsetlemming's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 15:37
Jetsetlemming
Not as bad as those god fucking awful "Dude, get your own" PSP commercials. Those make me want to steal a PSP, then shove it down a Sony marketter's throat. Could. Not. Be. Worse.
Im OK's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 15:48
Im OK
I miss the old days when the PS3 had good commercials. You know, like the one with the freaky robot baby and the one with the eggs and...

...wait.

Never mind.
B-Radicate's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 15:55
B-Radicate
That is the lamest commercial I have ever seen. Everything about it screamed "made in mom's basement" to me. That makes me NOT want to buy either pieces of merchandise.

Fail.
Churchhills Dog's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 19:43
Churchhills Dog
It sucks but I'm more interested in if that price is correct and if so, what will it be in UD $?
Bricfa's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 21:17
Bricfa
Fake?
DOOM's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 22:01
DOOM
Going to blow....
vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2007 22:28
vexed alex
"Gaming for me is a religion and Haze is the shit. I had to come up with a track that can hit up that kind of rush that I get from the game, and I think we really rocked it."

- Jonathan Davis (Korn)

I don't like Haze.
Necros's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 01:30
Necros
Lame. Why is it any ad involving the PS3 just annoys the hell out of me?
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 10:19
Holyetheline
terrible, terrible commercial
Furnimus's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/29/2007 11:39
Furnimus
Really. Dumb.
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