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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: w1ngman on March 26, 2001, 04:10:23 PM

Title: Advertising *IN* videogames...
Post by: w1ngman on March 26, 2001, 04:10:23 PM
Owning some Sony stock, I found this article interesting & thought I\'d pass it on...

http://www.forbes.com/2001/03/26/0326videogames.html?partner=yahoo&referrer=
Title: Advertising *IN* videogames...
Post by: Darth Joyda on March 27, 2001, 04:47:31 AM
This is quite interesting news - but expected to happen. Games are, very much, getting more and more movie-like. I don\'t mean the gameplay here, but the graphics, wich are getting terribly real. And it is a fact that youth today play videogames as much, even if not more ( like in my case ), than watch television.

So, my opinion is, if there\'s going to be advertizements in the games a lot in the near future, the target-age-group of this advertizing ranges from 10-30. So be expecting to see Sony\'s televisions and products on Playstation 2 soon ;)
Title: Advertising *IN* videogames...
Post by: Claypool 2001 on March 27, 2001, 04:04:36 PM
In Spiderman, there are numorus advertisments for Tony Hawk 2, there is my two cents:)
Title: Advertising *IN* videogames...
Post by: Metal_Gear_Ray on March 29, 2001, 01:02:09 AM
remember fighting vipers on the saturn, those pepsi ads pisse me off!
Title: Advertising *IN* videogames...
Post by: CygnusXI on March 29, 2001, 05:48:29 AM
As long as they are held within the context of the game setting, it\'s AOK with me.

For example. Say your playing Tony Hawk or other skate/snow/BMX type game. Seeing Mountain Dew vending machines would be fairly normal and would not adversly effect the game atmosphere. I mean, if your in a skate park or other public sporting place, more than likely you will see these things.

On the other hand, seeing a soda vending machine in ZOE or FF9 would SUCK!!