Gears commercial was amazing. Haven't seen anything memorable since then. Honestly I think in commercial advertising standards, Nintendo/Microsoft started off good, and became less effective, while Sony started off just awful, and has become the most effective.

in the UK Nintendo where the king

i cant even remember a Xbox 360 advert

Well theres no hard number for this but you think Nintendo put more ressources into it? Why? Just the kinect 2010-2011 campaign is simply enormous. That being said, Nintendo too had big campaigns earlier in the Wii life. Between, I didnt take into account Nintendo DS/3DS campaign.

They range from incredibly funny, to awkward like the open skull ad, down to dull and appalling, but they do it in such a large scale that they almost always succeed, so I'd say that they are king indeed. For European tastes, though, PS3 games ads and Nintendo games and console ads are generally better, while PS3 console ads are generally quite bad, but I still consider XB1 "from birth to grave", XB3630 mock shootout at the station and Kevin Butler's "back from future", that they don't broadcast here, three of the best gaming ads ever. Sony should definitely use KB's most biting ads in Europe.

Why do you get so touchy when someone (or more often than not YOU) brings this up? It's pointless information anyway. Who gives a shit about how much somebody spent on advertising?

You just bought it up there didn't you? I remember you mentioning it in another thread where you said something along the lines of "I can't wait until they bring up the $500 million Kinect advertising budget again." I'm just pointing out that you can't seem to let it go, it hasn't been mentioned in a while and you were just putting words in his mouth right there.

All I'm wondering is why does the budget matter? Am I missing something? Many big gaming websites reported on it, and people read it and took it in. Is there any reason to be so argumentative about it. You were pretty tame about it in this thread, but you haven't been in others.

I'm not touchy about anything, how can you turn this on me?

You can continue to correct people IF they mention it again, just try to be a bit more calm and respectful. I shouldn't have even bothered replying, this is pointless.

Microsoft wins by default due to Nintendo focusing almost exclusively on pushing its casual games and Sony chewing its own arm off.

No, that would be Geico. Between pigs high fiving squirrels causing car accidents, pig singing, "Wee! Wee! Wee!" all the way home, and that gecko it's hard to dispute me.