Pemalite said:
Normchacho said:
Pemalite said:
Agreed. It's like the whole purpose of "infomercials". - You NEVER see them say anything bad about the product, they just mindlessly drone on for hours about all the good stuff.
Anyway, I see no bad in this, Microsoft is kicking it's advertising gear into full to take the fight to it's competitors, which isn't bad by any stretch. (Ultimatly I would LOVE for all consoles to have a perfectly even amount of marketshare, it's what drives innovation and reduces prices in a capitalist world, but that's an idealism which probably won't occur.)
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What? Except of course that at the begining of that infomercial it tells you it's a paid advertisment. It doesn't pretend to be an impartial, informative program and then try to sell you something. How is that so hard to see?
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No, I doesn't always say it's a paid advertisement, at-least here.
However there is more to advertising then a commercial on Television.
Hows about adverts on a Billboard in a video game from the likes of Coca Cola? The game says nothing of such adverts.
Or hows about when you watch a movie and you see someone eating a Big Mac? That's also advertising.
I've also seen companies hand out/sell Hats, T-Shirts and Coffee Mugs for free with their company name and/or product/logo which is also advertising.
So by your logic, everything needs to have "advertisement" written all over it, which simply does not occur in the real world, people need to use some common sense and see that in a capitalist society, everything is advertising right down to the positive reviews someone might leave on Newegg.
Why people are so bent out of shape about this I will never know, Microsoft is behind Sony in sales, anything that allows those two to be on parity sales wise is good for everyone.
It's up to the consumers whether they will buy into it or not.
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In the U.S. any form of traditional advertising such as TV (excluding infomercials), radio, or printed ads are considered assumptive and require the consumer to assume that anything being said is paid advertising. The only exception is if the add contains any form of non-celebrity endorsment in which case they must disclose that it is a paid endorsment.
Any other type of advertising, whether it be infomercials, Youtube videos, blogs, product placement, ect. They are required by law to disclose that it is a paid advertisement because it isn't obvious which are ads and which are not. For instance if you watch a video about the Xbox One and there is no mention of it being a paid endorsment how do you know that what you're viewing is actually the opinion of the person who made the video or if they're being paid to say that?
