Xbox advertising in Japan, Why are they so stupid?

>"Black and white oversized ducks? No thank you. It doesn\'t even inform any non-PS2 fans what PS2 is all about."

And how does this ad?

Originally posted by Chrono
>"Black and white oversized ducks? No thank you. It doesn\'t even inform any non-PS2 fans what PS2 is all about."

And how does this ad?

He\'s saying none of it makes sense... (I think)

Originally posted by EThugg
He\'s saying none of it makes sense... (I think)

Correct. I didn\'t say the Xbox ad was the best ever, I\'m just saying Sony isn\'t exactly any better. And, IMHO, they\'re worse. So if we\'re gonna rant at Microsoft for this ad we might as well rant at Sony too.

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I personally like Microsoft\'s style. They show the various designs that went on through design and how it all lead up to the Xbox. It isn\'t exactly a huge seller ad - but still it has style.

Sony has no sense when doing ads. Like Sam said, I don\'t even know what the hell the "third place" is. I\'m not sure I even care. The Psone ads was lacking also though. The U.R. NOT.R.E ad, with the 3D polygon face. I don\'t know, it just wasn\'t that cool.

To be honest , when I watch a commercial or see an ad of a game or system, I just want to see the games. I don\'t want a catch phrase for the most part (\'cept Sega\'s "Sega does what Nintendon\'t"). Shenmue had an excellent commercial here in the US. It had style and focused on the games story and graphics. But then again, I think Sega has always been the best with advirtising.

That\'s stupid as hell.

I can hear them laughing/snorting drawing.

Bill Gaywad:  So your resume looks good.
PR-Dude:  Thanks, I did lots of advertising for Milli Vanilli
Bill Gaywad:  I LOVE MILLI VANILLI, you\'re hired!

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
But then again, I think Sega has always been the best with advirtising.

O_O;;;

* Temjin coughs.

Err... Bacon fat?... Neh?.... o_o;

I think these Japanese X box ads are not quite up to the level of Sony\'s Playstation 9 stupidity.  I mean come on...  

Sony\'s Marketing folks have to be complete airheads....

Originally posted by Docwiz
I think these Japanese X box ads are not quite up to the level of Sony\'s Playstation 9 stupidity.  I mean come on...  

Sony\'s Marketing folks have to be complete airheads....

Did you understand the PS9 commercials?  They were brilliant.

Vertically the PS2 looks like a monolith.  In 2001, a space Odyssey the Monolith "sped up" the exolutionary process.  The PS2 has "sped up" the evolutionary process of video gaming.

Like I said, a brilliant commercial, for those smart enough to understand it.

Originally posted by Docwiz
I think these Japanese X box ads are not quite up to the level of Sony\'s Playstation 9 stupidity.  I mean come on...  

Sony\'s Marketing folks have to be complete airheads....

Wow, never saw that coming from DocWiz.:rolleyes:

Originally posted by Troglodyte
Like I said, a brilliant commercial, for those smart enough to understand it.

And thats what, 7% of gamers? Overall it was a sucky commercial. It did nothing to sell the PS2 at all. Ford doesn\'t sell the 2002 Explorer by showing the 2010 explorer. It doesn\'t make sense. (Logic: In Back to the future they drove a car that went in to the future)

BTW, L-I-C is right, Sega has the BEST ads hands-down.

Originally posted by Gohan

And thats what, 7% of gamers? Overall it was a sucky commercial. It did nothing to sell the PS2 at all. Ford doesn\'t sell the 2002 Explorer by showing the 2010 explorer. It doesn\'t make sense. (Logic: In Back to the future they drove a car that went in to the future)

BTW, L-I-C is right, Sega has the BEST ads hands-down.

That wasn\'t the point.  I give up, "let the ignoarant, stay ignorant."

I did a couple market researches for sega games.  Remeber the one where the guy ran over the hockey player, frozen in the ice?  I knew about that one when it was just a guy reading a script on a cassette tape.

Gohan is right, the PS9 commercial was just dumb. And I think saying 7% of the gamers got it was a tad bit generous. I\'d say it\'s more like 0.4, seriously. Smart commercials can\'t break the thick heads of a casual gamer.

I remember Sega\'s ads back then, they made no sense. Sega does what Nintendon\'t? It was better than the crap Nintendo had, but it wasn\'t anything spectacular IMO which doesn\'t really matter since I was like 4 at the time...

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Sega ads...

"Sega does what Nintendon\'t":

Classic phrase.

The airbrushed blonde that was nude and had Saturn screenshots covering her "private" areas. :

Classic add, because it caught the attenion of every male teenager. Sexist? Sure. Attenion-grabber? Of course.

The little freckled kid make a rasberry face and Sega apologizing to Sony about their launch problems :

 This was such a great ad. People was expecting the second coming of videogaming and then Sony drops the ball. Sega took advantage of it. Gained alittle more attenion.

There is alot more, those are probably the three most popular though.

As for the PS9..It was crap. I don\'t care if it had a hidden movie reference in it. You can\'t be to intelligent when you are trying to sell something. When you do that, you take a huge risk of going over the consumers head and them losing total interest. Sony made that mistake with all that PS2 commercials. Sony had the same exact problem with the Psone.

Microsoft is keeping it simple. Sure, it is not the most edgy and attenion getting ad. But, it is simple and shows the console.

It just goes to show how STUPID Americans are.  \'Tis a shame, I rather liked America.  Now where\'s that DOOMSDAY button?

EDIT: insert any/all country/ies that also fit(s) the decription in place/conjuntion of/with America.

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Americans may be "stupid" but it doesn\'t change the fact that Sony made commercials that went over the consumers head. So, the problem with commercials are Sony\'s fault. Not the "stupid American\'s. Sony should of knew their target auidence was "stupid" and aimed the commercial towards that.