Why does Sony refuse to advertise properly?

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Rob6021 said:
Hmmmm... would i rather have Sony dump more money into actually making the games better, or more money into marketing and less money into making the game? (Halo 3 comes to mind)

The reason the PS3 doesn't sell is because it's $400: plain and simple, and killzone 2 came out at a slow time in game sales. You also had Resident Evil 5 conflicting with it 2 weeks after it's release, which if you cut out japan it sold better than. I don't think it has as much to do with marketing as a lot of people seem to think. I'm sure KZ2 will have long legs, it's too good quality to not, so stop with the 'should of done much better' stuff. Most of my more casual friends didn't get KZ2 because they just bought CoD:WAW last year and were still playing it.

I don't see how better/more marketing is a 'good' thing really. From a moral standpoint it's a bad thing. I don't want some company spending money in order to convince me what makes me happy. Let the products speak for themselves.

 

M$ spent plenty of money on both advertising and the actual game itself.  Simple fact is Sony could learn a few things from M$'s advertising department.  It doesn't matter if Halo 3 was a pure pile of shit, it sold well and a majority of those sales were from a great add campaign. 

The simple fact is there is no need whatsoever in skimping on the marketing of any game.  If you spend tons of cash developing it why not go that extra mile and cap it off with a good add campaign.