Microsoft and Epic pull Gears Announcement from the VGA's

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kowenicki said:

LivingMetal said:

D-Joe said:

LivingMetal said:

Darth Tigris said:

Once again the show is overhyped.  MS was smart to back away.  Ugh ...

Not according to the $500 million ad campaign for Kinect.  ;)

i heard this thing over 100 times,why can't you guys just stop?___king annoying

"You guys...?"  I for one hardly mentioned it.  But don't you think it's kind of ironic for one to claim that Microsoft is being smart by shying from overhype but yet it's a tactic they recently employed?  I'm not criticizing Microsoft here.  Just pointing out the irony of claimed situations.

I think the point he is making is that the 500m ad campaign isn't unusual in this industry in this quarter.

no, he seems to be pointing it out as unusual as he is implying that they are overhyping kinect.   However, the fact is that it isn't unusual, it is actual about the normal amount of money spent by all 3 companies (sony, nintendo, and microsoft) in advertising their products durring the holiday quarter.  

So, to be quite honest, microsoft isn't really "overhyping" kinect.  Unless you want to say Sony is overhyping the ps3 and Nintendo is overhyping the wii as well.