Eh the same thing happened when the commercials were first posted here... since a lot of people here live in, not the united states, it's not inconceivable.

Me, I think it's a perfetly fine commercial, but a poor commercial for the PS3. As anyone in advertising will tell you, different companies run differnt adds.

Coke runs differnt adds then Pepsi who run different adds then 7up. Mc Donalds runs different adds then Burger king who runs differnt adds then Sonic.

This if a decent add, but the problem is... it's a refrence add. It's a market leader reminder "hey remember we're number 1 add." Which isn't the proper add to be running when your in 3rd place because it's not informative enough. That add is going to mean nothing to people who have no idea what those games are. Not even most PS2 owners are going to know what's going on in those commercials.

The only people who are going to know are already people who have a PS3 or people who are already looking really hard at a PS3. Pretty much the only people who see it as a good commercial are the people who already have a PS3 or already want a PS3.

In a couple years when the PS3 moves ahead of 360, sure... but right now... it's just bad timing for an add like this. You need more individually focused explanitory adds to draw people in. Instead of a "Hey guys who already want this system buy it already" commercial.

Maybe it's because they want to hit their shipping goals. If so hopefully they'll switch to a more appropriate and likely way more effective add campaign after the end of Q4.  Otherwise they may spur short term sales in america only to sacrifice much more numerous future sales.

 the uncharted ones were good (in the UK), where they just showed up some of the gameplay, although they did muck it up a bit at the end when they had somelike drake talk about this is living and all that rubish

 Indeed, we should have brought thr peacepipe VAMP!

Btw; Spidey FTW!!  

Actually, I thought that European PS3 commercial poster earlier was more disturbing. I was like WTF is this???? when watching that. I don't care what the product is, but I would not want to buy it after seeing that freaky commercial! I don't know how they could come up with anything worse than that...

That Nintendo commercial was pretty funny though. I think I might have actually seen that one back in the day, haha.

The PS3 commercials are some of the best ever made for a video game console. Stop being newbs. That ad is one of the best i've ever seen. A lot better than the "Wii would like to play with you..." garbage that Nintendo puts out. NES and PS3 are both AMAZING systems. NES was amazing when I was a kid, and now PS3 is amazing now that i'm an adult.

Someone obviously doesn't know what an opinion is. What kind of an adult are you?! :O

 In the Wii ads do they tell you your getting a 5 year old processor? Or how about the Gamecube GPU overclocked? Do they tell you anything about the Wii specs? No, your argument about advertising fails.

Watching something is nothing like being a part of it, and for those who can't get into nascar but want to be able to play a game like it, thats what the game is for. Obviously your against all games that are life-like, but the second Pokemon comes on the screen your all for it. The PS3 has 100+ games, Sony had profit last quarter, let me ask you this, what else is your Wii good for? Can you enjoy a HD movie on it? How about listen to music while browsing the web on it? Can you plug any kind of USB toy into it and have it work? Can you keep a ton of music, and movies on it? How downloading demos, movie trailers, game trailers? I didnt think so, if you think swinging your arm is exercise you need a reality check. How about your computer, what kinds of games are on it, the exact same as on 360 and PS3, so why would you care? And you neglected to post your Processor, why because it is probably inferior to that of the 360 and PS3, how about the price of your computer, well over $1500 I'm sure. Like I said, your against all life-like games, that's why you like Nintendo. Apparently you don't have any real concept about games, you don't understand the different genres, all that matters to you is that at the end of the day, Pikachu is on the screen.

Good thing I missed this thread.

But to sum it up:

Sony's Ads for the PS3 are great. They actually show the games (Which when it launched, they had the commercials be really abstract and not make a point), and they tout the Blu-Ray player in it, which, since it's essentially won the war, is another good selling point. They also point out the PlayStation Network as it is growing and evolving, especially with the help of Home. I rather like the commercials, as they show why the PS3 is such a good console, among other things.

In comparison to other commercials:

I haven't really seen a lot of XBOX 360 ones, at least not as much as Ninty and Sony, but the last one I saw was of Guitar Hero 3 on XBOX 360 but that sold more on the PS2, so I don't know how much that one helped... Nintendo's commercials are really plain, but to the point to. Here is our first-party game. Play it. It is good. Which are all true, but the whole "Wii (We) would like to play" pun is getting quite old. But a problem with Nintendo's commercials is that you don't see any third party commercials showcasing a game and the Wii (Except Tomb Raider, but that game bombed big time). But I do applaud Nintendo for getting right to the point in the commercial, the game. No music or anything, just play our game, and it hits the point home extremly well.

@ Avinash_Tyagi

I have a slight bone to pick with you... matter of fact two.

First, Sony has targeted it's audience as the "hardcore", but they also have targeted the casual with the blu-ray commercials. And as HD penetration rates are increasing, and the number of HD players (Read: Blu-Ray Players) increase, the PS3 being the cheapest one will definetly help them with the "casual".

Second, we don't yet know if Killzone will or will not deliver. But the E3 showing, while it wasn't the 2005 E3 beautiful, was still stunning, and as long as the gameplay is as good as Guerilla would want us to believe, I do think that that game will deliver on all of their promises.

 Wii Production costs:
http://www.wii-volution.com/wii-news/wii-costs-158-to-manufacture.html
This is back at the launch of the Wii, so you can expect them to have reduced production costs even further, and I'm not saying its bad to make profit, I think its great, but $100 from day 1? Don't you think they could have be a little more consumer friendly? Especially since they were breaking HDTV's across the globe.

P.S. Who started the whole argument? A Wii fan.

 Casuals don't care about Blu-ray, do you know that most owners of HDTV's do not have any HD signals, including HD formats like Blu-ray.

And most casuals will wait for Sub $200 players, so that won't help PS3