Just when I didn't think Sony could get any lamer..

[Kenji]

Their PS3 commercial consisted of a white room, with a naked baby doll and a PS3. The babydoll saw it, jabbered a bit, cried, the tears got sucked back into it's eyes, the baby's eyes got all freaky looking, and then made the PS3 hover a bit.
"Play Beyond"....riiiiiight.
And the release date at the end... you couldn't tell the difference between the 1's and the /'s.

[xHaZxMaTx]

The one I saw was with a jumbled rubick's cube, which slid nearer to the PS3, hovered, then fixed itself.  It then proceeded to explode, which in turn, painted all the walls of the room.  I thought it was pretty kewl.

[Aridas]

"If you thought the PSP commercials were bad, wait til you get a load of what we have now!"

I wonder if they're TRYING to lose business...

[Kenji]

I just finally saw the rubix cube one.
Reminds me of the Dreamcast "It's thinking" commercials. Combined with this one PS2 review that was either online or in a magazine that said "If the Dreamcast is thinking, then the PS2 already has a degree".
Although the pretty colors were nice.

[Creativity]

I haven't seen one

[Xuzaf D]

I ended up seeing the baby one while watching the Simpsons. It's one of the millions of commercials that have nothing to do with anything.

[ninjannihilator]

I am so glad I don't get cable.

[Zedd]

Remind me to shoot the hitman when he gets in for his payment

[HealingBlight]

They have always been 'out there' with commercials, though it is not like they
a) Need to sell anything more.
b) Have anything to sell.
c) Seem to want to sell anything further.
d) Should bother trying to snag Wii360 diehards.
e) Should bother trying to appeal to a new audience, Wii has that market.
f)  Should bother trying to appeal to the existing market, Wii360 has that.
g) Have anything to sell.
h) Want to increase demand when they can't satisfy it.

The 360 add, was a wee little bit odd too. (Not the finger gun one, that one freaking rocked )

[ninjannihilator]

They have always been 'out there' with commercials, though it is not like they
a) Need to sell anything more.
b) Have anything to sell.
c) Seem to want to sell anything further.
d) Should bother trying to snag Wii360 diehards.
e) Should bother trying to appeal to a new audience, Wii has that market.
f)  Should bother trying to appeal to the existing market, Wii360 has that.
g) Have anything to sell.
h) Want to increase demand when they can't satisfy it.

The 360 add, was a wee little bit odd too. (Not the finger gun one, that one freaking rocked )

You do realize that more PS2's sold last christmas than Xbox360's and that the Playstation brand name is a powerful thing. But your last point is too true, why increase the demand if nobody can buy it until December (second shipment). This is just going to cause a lot of moronic parents and guardians to buy the overpriced PS3's on eBay and then realize they could of just bought it for $600.

[Toric]

When ya think about it, it's not like they need to convince anyone to play the PS3. If people are interested, they're interested. Sony probably just needed a powerful way to let everyone know the PS3 was coming. These commercials were a medium that people could easily remember, even if they were trying absolute hardest to forget.

[ITOS]

These commercials were a medium that people could easily remember, even if they were trying absolute hardest to forget.

Wouldn't it have been better to make a rememberable commercial that was also good?

Maybe it's just that "stupidity" thing that seems to be so popular...

[Sid]

The Baby commercial is CREEPY.
But Sony also makes ads that indirectly insult your intelligence. Like the (long) clip about the PS3's Cell power that ends with "With this much brain power, is the cell broadband engine even smarter than you?"

It's a bad sign when a company starts marketing its product by pointing out that it may be smarter than the people who end up buying it...

(Sorry if that clip has its own thread or if it has been discussed to death - I rarely check this section...)

[Jack McSlay]

at this rate I think the largest problem if not making them want to play a ps3. what they really need to work on now is making them want to pay a a PS3, which is the hard part 

[Zedd]

PS3 is crap...Nuff said...

[ninjannihilator]

PS3 is crap...Nuff said...

What happened between you and Sony? Just curious.

[Zedd]

PS3 is crap...Nuff said...

What happened between you and Sony? Just curious.

Thats funny you should ask....Well one their trying to hard steal my money yet again trying to use halloweenish themed comcericals doesnt help

[Kenji]

Honestly, for any system advertising a game system, I'd just like some game clips from multiple games, then show the system at the end. Maybe begin and end the game segments with memorable, famous games such as Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, or Resident Evil. Geez, I don't want to see some lame thing that has nothing to do with the product, if I wanted that I'd watch car commercials or shoe commercials. Gimme game clips to see what the friggin system can do. Or at least someone -pretending- to enjoy it..

[Aridas]

*pats the kat* boycott TV instead. It's safer.

[Kenji]

For the most part, I guess I already have. It's usually just on for background noises, really. Cept for those shows I actually do like. I wish a few more channels were like that one that doesn't show commercials until after shows finish.

[Aridas]

I distinctly remember a time where a TV show could go somewhere around or up to 15 minutes before showing commercials, and the commercial breaks were barely long enough to get anything done... *wishes those days would return*

[Toric]

Wouldn't it have been better to make a rememberable commercial that was also good?

Yes, but it would have been more difficult I imagine. Look at it this way: we're talking about the PS3 commercial on an internet forum. How many other forums do you think have threads about how random/stupid these commercials are? And then there's the real-life word-of-mouth spread of just how bizarre these commercials are. Through this, the PS3's identity is spread. It's a hot topic. It's indirectly a hot topic, but a hot topic nonetheless.

Compare that to a commercial starting with a clip of Snake in Metal Gear, then seeing Snake progress in graphical shiny through Metal Gear Solid 1, 2, and the new Solid 4. How many people would be talking about that, compared to a Rubik's Cube randomly solving itself and exploding with the PS3 logo attached?

[Kenji]

Wouldn't it have been better to make a rememberable commercial that was also good?

Yes, but it would have been more difficult I imagine. Look at it this way: we're talking about the PS3 commercial on an internet forum. How many other forums do you think have threads about how random/stupid these commercials are? And then there's the real-life word-of-mouth spread of just how bizarre these commercials are. Through this, the PS3's identity is spread. It's a hot topic. It's indirectly a hot topic, but a hot topic nonetheless.

Compare that to a commercial starting with a clip of Snake in Metal Gear, then seeing Snake progress in graphical shiny through Metal Gear Solid 1, 2, and the new Solid 4. How many people would be talking about that, compared to a Rubik's Cube randomly solving itself and exploding with the PS3 logo attached?

So you're saying that they're yet again swiping ideas of others. I remember the whole weeks of "I want to play with my Wii!". And FYI, I have seen forums make many topics on how awesome game commercials have been before.

[Toric]

......Okay, you're right. Nintendo did it first, and Nintendo did it better. Still, tying your name to something bizarre and slightly creepy (Vaguely creepy perhaps?) seems to be a legitimate advertising tactic.

[Kenji]

Well I'm sure someone did it before Nintendo as well, but at least they have original gameplay coming.

Either way, at least the commercials are better than the overt racism of the PSP ones. >.> Or the ones where everyone's throwing the PSP around as if they didn't want it. <.<

[ShadesFox]

So, they are importing Japanese commercials now?

One has not seen true horror until one sees a commercial from Japan.

[Toric]

One has not seen true horror until one sees a commercial from Japan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGKGwepqtNY

[ninjannihilator]

 
LOLZ at Super Famicom commercials
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for ♪Super Famicom; zeru-zeru♪.


This has now become the "Bizarre Japanese VG commercials" thread.

[Xuzaf D]

Do they have to be Japanese?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuHOCyJWFDE

...your parents help you hook it up...

[Zedd]

Do they have to be Japanese?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuHOCyJWFDE

...your parents help you hook it up...

Makes me wonder if they ever gotten laid by now