Is This Misleading Marketing? (Sony and NMS)

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RolStoppable said:

Teeqoz said:

You can't blame Sony for it being misleading. That's like blaming MS if Ubisoft downgrades a game that was showcased at MS's E3. But it is misleading.

Depends on the circumstances. If employees of Sony were able to play NMS at that point in time, they would be aware that the actual game does not match the footage that is used to advertise it. Given that No Man's Sky is one of those indie games that Sony backed up, the likelyhood that Sony knew about the state the game is in is pretty high.

But in a world where Sony and Microsoft show trailers of PC versions of AAA games without any sort of disclaimers at their E3 conferences, misleading marketing is closer to the norm rather than being the exception. So what does it matter anyway? The time when it made sense to complain about individual cases of misleading marketing is a thing of a past. It's an industry-wide problem.

 

Sorry, but this is total rubbish. Sony was not involved in developing NMS and isnt publishing it. They provided marketing support. You assume that some Sony guy must have played an unfinished game for dozens of hours and conclude the corporation as a whole must have been aware of supposedly misleading marketing? And then what?

Lol, that is rich.

 

Furthermore, where exactly did Sony show trailers of their games not mentioning platform and showing content/graphics with noticable downgrade when compared to the final product.