IggyTheSmidge,

Anyone remember this XBox ad?

https://youtu.be/Hu_0GdXW904

Apparently it was banned, but I remember seeing it fairly regularly so it must've been around for a while before that happened...

dexa_scantron,
@dexa_scantron@lemmy.world avatar

It goes pretty hard, but it’s no “John Romero’s about to make you his bitch.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana#/media/File:Daikatana_infamous_advertisement.jpg

set_secret,

to be fair more powerful than completly non-existant isn’t really that impressive.

burliman,

Unless they mean the idea of God that has driven the religious movements throughout all of human history. Now that is a real god.

set_secret,

fair point

beardown,

This style is drastically better than anything today.

At least it’s an ethos

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

If the PS1 is more powerful than God, then what is the PS5? 😮

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

More powerful than “God 5”

soloner,

If we assume God is God 0, then power(PS(x)) > power(God x - 1)

Cqrd,

Why would you make that assumption though? They’re clearly index 1 people over at Sony, considering the next PlayStation to release was the PS2

mindbleach,

Unlike whatever the fuck Microsoft is doing. Irish Logarithms?

stevedidWHAT, (edited )
@stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world avatar

If they even had a fraction of the knowledge about today’s games they’d shit themselves lmao.

Just wait until these fancy AI content generators are integrated by AAA companies and aren’t just mods.

🤩 stay positive y’all, happy new year!

pelerinli,

Open world RPG’s like Bannerlord or Skyrim will be “real” alternative reality. Just think, today you can chit-chat in Bannerlord with general NPC. Tomorrow you can get radiant quest from giver by talking to Jarls. In future you can find secret quests and spell-check your way around in Fallout.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

The other day someone posted an NES cover and it straight up said “ultra realistic computer generated graphics” on it. 🤣

tiredofsametab,

At the time, the comparison was probably against Atari 2600 and other early systems

YaksDC,

That’s really not saying much, I would rather have a console with at least a little power.

Dimok,

Yeah, I’m not sure who kicked it off but the Nintendo, Sega wars in the 80s kind of started with the quirky ‘edgy’ crap and that carried over into the PS/Xbox era. The Nintendo power mags had some seriously nonsense ads and the tv commercials kind of ran the gambit. A lot of ‘we’re gamers, parents just wouldn’t understand’ type ads. Here’s one that even teen me was like ‘wtf?’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-qBkWerZDg

newtraditionalists,

I'm so glad this is the one you linked. Such an icon of a commercial lol

Fredselfish,
@Fredselfish@lemmy.world avatar

WTF that horrible way to advertise that game.

soloner,

I’m not sure if the mental/high person is meant to represent Link or the player… Which one is worse?

Dimok,

The only thing I can think, is it was marketed to those ‘cool’ parents. “Like, wow man! My kid needs this edgy game!” Even that’s a stretch…

MonkderZweite,

Sure. Ever seen god being powerful?

simple,
@simple@lemmy.world avatar

The PlayStation 3 baby commercial was also something else. Playstation has had some real weird marketing moments.

CowsLookLikeMaps,

What in the what

mindbleach,
edgemaster72,
@edgemaster72@lemmy.world avatar

I’m hoping I can make it to 2078 for the spherical PS9

Vilian,

If we’re talking about it then it woeked

otp,

I get where you’re coming from, but ads don’t just want people talking, they want to turn people into buyers.

After the success of the PS2, virtually their entire market knew about the PS3. But even with those weird ads and their previous massive success with the PS2, the PS3 was selling terribly poorly around the time of the baby ad, IIRC.

SpookyCoffee,

Source?

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

There are a few articles about their controversial ads. Here’s one that includes it: sabukaru.online/…/playstation-2-advertisements

QuantumSparkles,

These all look like ads that you would see in Cyberpunk 2077

Tremble,

Reminds me of John Lennon who said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus…

There were protests and record burnings and they were banned on many radio stations and they stopped touring, some say because of the backlash….

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_popular_than_Jesus#:….

zaplachi,

In 1980, he was murdered by a Christian fan of the Beatles, Mark David Chapman, who later cited Lennon’s quote as one of his possible motives in the killing.

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