By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - Sony - GT5 may become shopto.net's BIGGEST EVER Pre-Order!

darthdevidem01 on 21 November 2010
CGI-Quality said:
darthdevidem01 said:
CGI-Quality said:
Attoyou said:

Not bad for a Dead Franchise/Dead genre On a system where exclusives cant possibly outdo their predecessors.

I hear ya, but Sony really does need to up the marketing. I'm thinking they will just after launch, but that seems like a lackluster decision. They should be pushing this like Nintendo pushes the next Mario/Microsoft pushes the next Halo.

I still expect an enormous opening in EMEAA first week though.

Maybe they expect GT5 to be a slow burner

I mean I think SONY might amp up marketing in december so GT5 has a steady run to the end of the year

Probably, sounds real plausible actually. I forget this isn't a frontlaoder type franchise. Now that I think about it, I don't remember past GT launches having much more marketing than GT5.

Well in UK this is the lowest marketed GT game pre-launch....dunno about NA/JP

but in UK the clear problem is the sudden delay meant the slots SONY had pre-booked for GT5 commercials had to be abandoned and maybe SONY couldn't get new commercial airing slots

Still this is something Nintendo does....release a game with "meh" marketing...then keep marketing for months on end....thats one of the ways in which the "evergreen" sellers have come to be evergreen

If SONY's taking that approach with GT5...I'm all for it.



All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

Around the Network
NYANKS on 21 November 2010

I'm gonna facepalm when people givethis game crap for not opening as big as Halo or Black Ops. 



dunno001 on 21 November 2010
snakenobi said:
dunno001 said:

My guess is that because of the car giveaway, preorders are going to be heavily skewed toward ShopTo. Not to say that other retailers aren't going to be working their butts off too, but I think the prospect of winning a new car sounds pretty good...

what car giveaway? 

they have a raceday experience

the SLS AMG giveaway is for everybody with a signature editions all over the world not just shopto.net

I'll stand corrected, then; the site wasn't loading for me, so I had to go by the title of the event to extrapolate what was going on. I retract said prior line in light of this new info.



-dunno001

-On a quest for the truly perfect game; I don't think it exists...

snakenobi on 21 November 2010
dunno001 said:
snakenobi said:
dunno001 said:

My guess is that because of the car giveaway, preorders are going to be heavily skewed toward ShopTo. Not to say that other retailers aren't going to be working their butts off too, but I think the prospect of winning a new car sounds pretty good...

what car giveaway? 

they have a raceday experience

the SLS AMG giveaway is for everybody with a signature editions all over the world not just shopto.net

I'll stand corrected, then; the site wasn't loading for me, so I had to go by the title of the event to extrapolate what was going on. I retract said prior line in light of this new info.


its fine no problem



libellule on 21 November 2010
darthdevidem01 said:
Scruff7 said:
darthdevidem01 said:

 

_____________________________

I felt it being their "Biggest ever pre-order" was more significant than all staff JUST handling GT5 orders over the weekend.

Either way without ZERO marketing in the UK so far...it seems GT5 will still be huge if shopto is anything to go by (shopto.net had become extremely popular in recent years)...lets hope its a similar scene across retailers in the UK.

 

that is so true. I haven't seen anything on TV or elsewhere and it's released next week!

It is absolutely SHAMEFUL of SONY to do this to GT5....but oh well....

they spend their money on america or on other product (who said move ?), not here in europe or uk where GT success is  given



Time to Work !

Around the Network
libellule on 21 November 2010
snakenobi said:
dunno001 said:
snakenobi said:
dunno001 said:

My guess is that because of the car giveaway, preorders are going to be heavily skewed toward ShopTo. Not to say that other retailers aren't going to be working their butts off too, but I think the prospect of winning a new car sounds pretty good...

what car giveaway? 

they have a raceday experience

the SLS AMG giveaway is for everybody with a signature editions all over the world not just shopto.net

I'll stand corrected, then; the site wasn't loading for me, so I had to go by the title of the event to extrapolate what was going on. I retract said prior line in light of this new info.


its fine no problem

so there is not shoppo special offer ?



Time to Work !

tombi123 on 21 November 2010

There is no evidence at all that Sony can't get advertising spots on TV for GT5 because of the delay. Sony would have known the release date along time before it got announced. Plus, its got TV spots in NA today.



NiKKoM on 21 November 2010

About that lack of marketing: All the TV ad space is taken up months ago.. same counts for magazine ads..  it's the holiday season and no you can't just switch ads.. it doesn't work that way..



 

Face the future.. Gamecenter ID: nikkom_nl (oh no he didn't!!) 

snakenobi on 21 November 2010
libellule said:
snakenobi said:
dunno001 said:
snakenobi said:
dunno001 said:

My guess is that because of the car giveaway, preorders are going to be heavily skewed toward ShopTo. Not to say that other retailers aren't going to be working their butts off too, but I think the prospect of winning a new car sounds pretty good...

what car giveaway? 

they have a raceday experience

the SLS AMG giveaway is for everybody with a signature editions all over the world not just shopto.net

I'll stand corrected, then; the site wasn't loading for me, so I had to go by the title of the event to extrapolate what was going on. I retract said prior line in light of this new info.


its fine no problem

so there is not shoppo special offer ?

shopto.net has an offer for all the buyers to get  raceday experience worth more than £900(you get an all expenses paid trip to car race)

 

what Dunno was referring is Mercedes SLS AMG that will be given the buyer of the GT5 Signature edition.all who have one enter into a draw to win it.

 

he got it mixed up with shopto.net's offer



Notorius.A.i.G on 21 November 2010

Sony said that they will show the Kevin Butler ad during during a NFL game in the States. And I think I saw one ad during the Raptors game. 

OT : How big is ShopTo ? Is it like Amazon ? Or more like Wal - Mart ? Or in - between ?



Who's the best Pac, Nas, and Big. Just leave it to that.

PLAYSTATION®3 is the future.....NOW.......B_E_L_I_E_V_E

Slaughterhouse Is The Sh*t  .... NOW ........ B_E_L_I_E_V_E