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VicViper on 06 March 2012
Dr.Grass said:
bonkers555 said:
Dr.Grass said:
WAIT WHAT.

You can't play any PSV games online over 3G!? (someone answer plz)

What on earth is the point then!? Here in South Africa I've ONLY seen the 3G model in the shops. Who's smoking all the crack!?

No you can not. That's the main reason I decide to go with the Wi-Fi version last minute.

That makes no sense. I can play PS3 online with a 3G connection and it works fine. Who the hell would pay extra to check their facebook status. It's insanity.

You can? Where do you live?

I can hardly check facebook with 3G...



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dark_gh0st_b0y on 06 March 2012
VicViper said:
Dr.Grass said:
bonkers555 said:
Dr.Grass said:
WAIT WHAT.

You can't play any PSV games online over 3G!? (someone answer plz)

What on earth is the point then!? Here in South Africa I've ONLY seen the 3G model in the shops. Who's smoking all the crack!?

No you can not. That's the main reason I decide to go with the Wi-Fi version last minute.

That makes no sense. I can play PS3 online with a 3G connection and it works fine. Who the hell would pay extra to check their facebook status. It's insanity.

You can? Where do you live?

I can hardly check facebook with 3G...

wtf, r u serious? i thought the point of Vita's 3G was to play online anywhere without Wi-Fi

ad is totally misleading...



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TC_Squared on 06 March 2012

I didn't hear the mention of the PS3 even once in that commercial.



MrT-Tar on 06 March 2012

misleading =/= lying.

This advert is just the former




BlkPaladin on 06 March 2012
Dr.Grass said:
WAIT WHAT.

You can't play any PSV games online over 3G!? (someone answer plz)

What on earth is the point then!? Here in South Africa I've ONLY seen the 3G model in the shops. Who's smoking all the crack!?


According to a NPR report that I listened to lately Australians are smoking a lot of crack. (National Public Radio, and the report was on cocaine so the reply is a little tongue in cheek) But no 3G doesn't really have the stability to play anything over a facebook game with. (Even then you loose the signal and have to reload your game loosing any progress that the server doesn't think you deserve. Sometimes its quite a chunck.)

Any commercial spins the truth about what it is advertising. It's a major advertising tactic to tell the truth but to present it in such a way there will be misunderstanding, because to advertisers you are nothing but a sheep-like wallet on feet waiting to be fleeced of your money, credit and anything else that can be considered equity. 



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brendude13 on 06 March 2012
menx64 said:
brendude13 said:
I don't see where the PS3 links into the advert. Or is this about not being able to game over 3G? Because that did seem misleading. Will 3G online gaming be available in the future?

I don't want to turn this into a PS Vita vs 3DS discussion, hopefully it can just stick to misleading ads, but I forgot to post this 3DS ad a while ago which pissed me off, it was quite misleading and arrogant.

mind to elaborate?

They brag about amazing graphics while showing 10 seconds of CG, then they shrink the screen so it's very small and decide to show gameplay. Also, you can't exactly prove that a console has bad graphics, but the consensus is that the 3DS's graphics are sub par. I know they aren't exactly going to say "it has mediocre graphics", but if they don't have it, then they shouldn't flaunt it.

Then they brag about monumental titles and then show 2 unreleased games, only one of which had print below it saying it wasn't out yet. This advert was shown around the 3DS' launch, but they might have edited Zelda out back then, I'm not sure. This was also shown around the time that the 3DS's was being criticised for having "no gaemz" and a horrible launch line-up. Once again, they aren't exactly going to trash their own system, but if they don't have it, then they shouldn't flaunt it.

Then they brag about "breakthrough hardware", while games and graphics are subjective, this is something that be disproven.

break·through/ˈbrākˌTHro͞o/

Noun:
  1. A sudden, dramatic, and important discovery or development, esp. in science.
  2. A significant and dramatic overcoming of a perceived obstacle, allowing the completion of a process.
They brag about breakthrough hardware, despite the fact that all of the important components are years old, the graphics chip is from 2005 and the technology used in the 3D screen, which is what they seemed to be hinting at, has existed for years now and had already been applied in some phones.
Basically, that advert just goes through almost every aspect of the console and says "Yep, it's pretty much perfect", which isn't only arrogant, but also far from the truth, especially at the time the advert was released. The main focus of the advert was on the hardware, which is easily the 3DS's weakest aspect, and yet Nintendo keep making the console out to be something it's not. It might not seem so bad now that Nintendo has dropped the price and people are now satisfied with the games, but this advert was shown just after the 3DS's launch and it built up a very misleading image of what the console was.
It's like advertising a Citreon as a supercar, you can't exactly prove that it isn't a supercar as the term "supercar" is objective, even if you know it isn't one, and even if it might do other things well.
Anyway, enough about the 3DS's commercial, I just forgot to (or didn't feel comfortable) making a thread on that advert and thought this would be a good time to slip this in.


brendude13 on 06 March 2012

OT: After researching what the 3G feature can do, this advert is extremely misleading and shouldn't be shown, not to mention that the point the advert is trying to make isn't even clear and it's generally just not a very good commercial. I'm more surprised at why SONY can't actually get 3G gaming to work, is it even possible? Looks like I'm buying the Wi-fi version, the 3G version really is useless.



NiKKoM on 06 March 2012

I don't believe the OP.. I think this is about 2 hot girls who promised him a threesome.. but what he didn't knew was they asked it for their ugly friend and her boyfriend.. so now the OP tells to all his friends that 2 hot girls asked him for a threesome but the friends are mislead and can't see the truth..



 

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VicViper on 06 March 2012
brendude13 said:
menx64 said:
brendude13 said:
I don't see where the PS3 links into the advert. Or is this about not being able to game over 3G? Because that did seem misleading. Will 3G online gaming be available in the future?

I don't want to turn this into a PS Vita vs 3DS discussion, hopefully it can just stick to misleading ads, but I forgot to post this 3DS ad a while ago which pissed me off, it was quite misleading and arrogant.

mind to elaborate?

They brag about amazing graphics while showing 10 seconds of CG, then they shrink the screen so it's very small and decide to show gameplay. Also, you can't exactly prove that a console has bad graphics, but the consensus is that the 3DS's graphics are sub par. I know they aren't exactly going to say "it has mediocre graphics", but if they don't have it, then they shouldn't flaunt it.

Then they brag about monumental titles and then show 2 unreleased games, only one of which had print below it saying it wasn't out yet. This advert was shown around the 3DS' launch, but they might have edited Zelda out back then, I'm not sure. This was also shown around the time that the 3DS's was being criticised for having "no gaemz" and a horrible launch line-up. Once again, they aren't exactly going to trash their own system, but if they don't have it, then they shouldn't flaunt it.

Then they brag about "breakthrough hardware", while games and graphics are subjective, this is something that be disproven.

break·through/ˈbrākˌTHro͞o/

Noun:
  1. A sudden, dramatic, and important discovery or development, esp. in science.
  2. A significant and dramatic overcoming of a perceived obstacle, allowing the completion of a process.
They brag about breakthrough hardware, despite the fact that all of the important components are years old, the graphics chip is from 2005 and the technology used in the 3D screen, which is what they seemed to be hinting at, has existed for years now and had already been applied in some phones.
Basically, that advert just goes through almost every aspect of the console and says "Yep, it's pretty much perfect", which isn't only arrogant, but also far from the truth, especially at the time the advert was released. The main focus of the advert was on the hardware, which is easily the 3DS's weakest aspect, and yet Nintendo keep making the console out to be something it's not. It might not seem so bad now that Nintendo has dropped the price and people are now satisfied with the games, but this advert was shown just after the 3DS's launch and it built up a very misleading image of what the console was.
It's like advertising a Citreon as a supercar, you can't exactly prove that it isn't a supercar as the term "supercar" is objective, even if you know it isn't one, and even if it might do other things well.
Anyway, enough about the 3DS's commercial, I just forgot to (or didn't feel comfortable) making a thread on that advert and thought this would be a good time to slip this in.

Now this is irrational hate towards something.

You are the only person in the world to have that reaction towards that ad.



happydolphin on 06 March 2012
superchunk said:
YES! Every ad I've seen gives this impression and I know its 100% false and just laugh at the poor fools who'll go spend $300 on a Vita just realize what it actually takes to get 3G service and then on top of that realize its just crap their phones already do. :/

Oh, hopes are they'll probably just return it. Marketing like this makes me sick.