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celador on 29 August 2014
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justinian said:
celador said:

Not surprised X1 is doing so badly in continental when the console is so American-centric. MS can hardly be surprised


In the UK the ads for X1 are everywhere but I really hate the way the ads come across.

Some gun-ho America dude that sounds like Rocky talking military garbage to a British audience. If that is what they think of us Brits I am dissapointed.

This is not the freaking 1950s or even the 1980s.

Not really surprised about what's happening in Germany. Since that guy (can't remember his name, but you know the one) stated that MS are working closely with the NSA followed by the German spying scandal this was expected. Even the German government has apparently banned Windows software.

Advertising your product in such an enviroment might prove to be even more counter-productive so maybe MS is doing the best thing by lying low with the ads in Germany.

Yes that ad is horrendously cringeworthy, and a tad pretentious even.  The words of the speech just don't translate to a games console very well at all, I'm really not sure what they were going for.  The Titanfall one with Aaron Paul (?) was far better