Have you ever been swayed bye marketing?

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TRios_Zen said:

sapphi_snake said:

TRios_Zen said:

If you have ever bought a game console, becuase it said "Playstation", "Sega", "Nintendo" or "Xbox" on it, then you've been influenced by marketing.

If you say you didn't buy it because of the maker, you bought it because of a game, your expectation for that game was either influenced by marketing for that game, or your percieved quality of the studio (Brand name marketing).

It really is omnipresent.

Couldn't both cases simply be due to past experiences?

If you go back far enough, your decision was likely influenced somewhere by marketing.  Think about it: if you played the game at a friends house, but remembered the brand name of the console or the name of the game, well that is marketing.

If your parents took you before you had any concept of what a video game was and showed you two consoles, you would likely pick based upon which box design/art you liked.  That's marketing.

In modern society it really is everywhere.

No, it's really not. Unless my fried was employed by the company to create publicity for their products, then it's not marketing. Traditional marketing means companies taking action to create publicity for their products and make people want to buy them. You're stretching the definition of marketing/advertising way too much.