Publishers pushing the PS3 more now

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elnino334 said:
Initially it was just the simpsons game but now I just saw the assasins creed commercial which only featured the PS3 version. Is pretty nice since they get to adversite the cheaper PS3 starting at $399. I think the publishers have so much money invested on the PS3 they had it do this and like SONY are pulling all the stops. Hopefully it pays off.

I think it will pay off too, but you've got the motives wrong here. There's zero chance that these companies are pushing the PS3 SKUs because they want the PS3 to succeed so much; it's because Sony paid them. It's precisely what Microsoft did with Guitar Hero II and III; you pay the advertising fees for the companies (in that case Activision) and then they advertise your SKU more heavily. Madden is another example -- the TV ads all had the Xbox360 logo at the end, as if the 360 version were the only SKU, when obviously it wasn't. 

So, uh, yeah. If you think these companies are doing this out of the goodness of their hearts -- or even just to help sell the PS3 -- you're simply wrong. Whatever money they'd get from such a maneuver would be lost by the fact that less people are aware this game even exists on the Wii and Xbox360, which it most certainly does. I think this absolutely will pay off for Sony, I'm just pointing out how it came about.