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HappySqurriel said:

naznatips said:

Hus said:


How is it bait and switch, the footage form Motorstorm is exacly like the gameplay.

I think you are missing his point. What he is saying is that because of years of being shown CGI in Playstation and Playstation 2 game commercials, people are going to look at this and expect games to look much worse than the CGI they are showing us, even though PS3 games do look very good.

However, I don't agree with your premise Happy. I think the problem is simply that the commercials are confusing and are targeted at people who already know about the games, rather than those who haven't seen it before. I don't think the CGI has anything to do with it.

I wasn't (necessarily) claiming that the advertizements were bad but more that the ad campaigns seemed strange in particular when you contrast it to the Wii's ads; the Wii's ads tend to show off the games graphics because they're forced to in order to show off the gameplay.

I do agree though, if you didn't know what type of game Heavenly Sword was you wouldn't know from watching the commercial.

Well, I think the fact that the Wii commercials show gameplay at least makes perfect sense.  Although the games don't look great graphically, the entire premise of the Wii is to show new ways to play the games.  So, of course, they are always going to want to show people playing them in order to show them how the Wii makes it different than playing the game on any other system. 

I know you weren't necessarily saying they were bad, but you were wondering if the fact that they use FMV affects sales.  I was saying that I don't think so, but the fact that the commercials themselves are pretty bad does affect sales.