Activision brings back the old "Punch Nintendo" Ads with Blur

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Mr Khan said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

Sky Render said:
There's a golden rule of advertising, that being that you do not insult your competition since it will almost always backfire. Outperform, fine. Outshine, great. But insult? That just makes your audience automatically antagonistic, and usually towards YOU instead of whomever you're insulting. You might grab a portion of the juvenile demographic since it's even been scientifically shown that teenagers don't process empathy the way adults do, but you're just going to upset most of your audience below the age of 13 or above the age of 19.

And this is why the Apple vs PC ads piss a lot of people off.

Oh god yes. I've found myself spewing anti-Mac bile before, even though i really have nothing against them. I just hated those commercials so much.

 

Rarely do i yell at the TV. Those damned things were an exception.

Yeah from what I can tell even the Mac faithfull weren't big fans of those ads. I for instance hate them. But they seem to have worked since people talk a about them so darn much, even if it's mostly complaints.