papflesje said:
theprof00 said:
Ender said:
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I don't know about this. I still have not seen a LBP commercial. Sony said they would get behind it once they saw how well it did. I do not recall seeing anything related to how much they spent on an ad campaign, nor did I see any huge "to-do's". If you can show this marketing push, I'm sure it will make a much better argument for the "pro-flop" side of the argument, but nobody has this figure, and the only stuff I have seen that even resembles a "marketing push" is a bunch of press releases that got popularized by this and many other gaming sites.
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huge advertisemen on the walls of the Leipzig Game Convention, big sections of their stand devoted to it.
Devoting big sections of their stand to LBP did not in any way hurt. If they had sacrificed advertising space for a more worthwile game, then I would agree with you, but as far as I can tell, that is just about as free of advertising as you can get. I mean, they are going to be at LGC regardless of what they are trying to push, why not LBP? The answer is simple, because it is a good game and more deserving of attention than other first-party games.
Billboards in the train stations and the public transport stops over here
I'm not sure how much you think it costs to advertise in Public transportation, but it is one of the cheapest forms of advertisement FYI.
Advertizing on the tv (the one with people watching in slowmotion where games are shown in a reflection in the mirror, a puddle or a window)
That is an advertisement for the PS3, and does not even mention the LBP name.
Advertizing separately for LBP on tv too
See, this I have not seen, I have seen all the other examples except this one. If this is true then I guess it really depends on how much they actually spent, which I have already brought up, and what you have still not shown.
FTR: I have seen more Gears2, Fable2, Wii music, ads than ANY PS3 game ads, especially LBP, which I have not seen any.
If this is a lot of marketing, then what is Wii music getting? I'm sure a BILLION dollar campaign if I were to follow this kind of logic. I've seen that commercial about 60 times in the last 2 weeks.
No idea where you live, but that game got pushed quite decently in ads.
Also you used the word decently. I don't even think decently fits, but even your choice of words defies the whole contextual argument that there was a HUGE amount of advertising.
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