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VGKing on 12 November 2011

WHY!?
They don't even need to. They're crushing the competition already.

Well I guess they're trying to reduce Wii sales this holiday? A massive ad campagin will have casuals buying 360s instead of Wiis this holiday.



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Ajescent on 12 November 2011
VGKing said:
WHY!?
They don't even need to. They're crushing the competition already.

Well I guess they're trying to reduce Wii sales this holiday? A massive ad campagin will have casuals buying 360s instead of Wiis this holiday.


There's no such thing as too much sales.



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darkknightkryta on 12 November 2011

So what are they planning to spend? A billion?



Alby_da_Wolf on 12 November 2011
Ajescent said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
Ajescent said:
enditall727 said:
wait so does "xbox advertising" differ from "kinect advertising"?

Kinect is a beast of its own.

Isn't it amazing how MS marketing almost always gives everybody a different but usually awkward feeling, often neglecting the actual advertised product altogether and focusing instead on the advertising itself?   

It gets people talking about Kinect, which ultimately matters more to MS as they can get more people to buy it afterwards.

That's for sure! "Life is short" for XB1 was very funny, and hadn't MS gimped its project at the last time (from Athlon down to PIII/Celeron hybrid, RAM halved from 128MB to 64MB) forcing many devs of PC/XB1 multiplats to cripple them too, I wouldn't have hated it, that ad could have even made me love it. And one of the first ads for XB360, the one with people fighting at the station, pretending their fingers  were weapons, was awesome too. But this makes me wonder why MS doesn't make such ads anymore and reverted to its usual appalling and/or patronising ones. Getting people to talk about the product is good, and being talked about bad is always better than being ignored, but MS definitely knew how to get better reactions...



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yo_john117 on 12 November 2011
VGKing said:
WHY!?
They don't even need to. They're crushing the competition already.

Well I guess they're trying to reduce Wii sales this holiday? A massive ad campagin will have casuals buying 360s instead of Wiis this holiday.

No they're not.



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TT Makaveli on 12 November 2011
yo_john117 said:
VGKing said:
WHY!?
They don't even need to. They're crushing the competition already.

Well I guess they're trying to reduce Wii sales this holiday? A massive ad campagin will have casuals buying 360s instead of Wiis this holiday.

No they're not.


i think he means US-wise...if not then he is one delusional muffaka cause Xbox isnt crushing shit outside of the states!



yo_john117 on 12 November 2011
TT Makaveli said:
yo_john117 said:
VGKing said:
WHY!?
They don't even need to. They're crushing the competition already.

Well I guess they're trying to reduce Wii sales this holiday? A massive ad campagin will have casuals buying 360s instead of Wiis this holiday.

No they're not.


i think he means US-wise...if not then he is one delusional muffaka cause Xbox isnt crushing shit outside of the states!

I wouldn't even say it's crushing the competition in the US, it's more just doing better.



riderz1337 on 12 November 2011

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SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY!



arcane_chaos on 12 November 2011

well the 360 ads have been picking up lately....I've seen the Fable 3/Halo Reach+3 months of XBL Gold ad quite alot along with those fitness kinect ads



Rockstar266 on 12 November 2011

microsoft are already airing a wave of commercials over here in australia and finally the voice feature has been activated over here so the sales might finally pick up but sony still advertises more over here and the ps3 is cheaper so xbox really need a pricecut