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curl-6 on 01 September 2013
prayformojo said:
NobleTeam360 said:
OT: look where Crash is today. I loved those games back in the PS1 era, Crash Bandicoot Cortex strikes back...... good times.


This wasn't about Crash winning, it was about PS1 winning by putting it in peoples minds that the PS1 was cool and Nintendo was for losers.

It worked.

Please, nobody was convinced Playstation was cool by a guy in a mascot marsupial suit yelling childish things. The library did that.



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prayformojo on 01 September 2013
curl-6 said:
prayformojo said:
NobleTeam360 said:
OT: look where Crash is today. I loved those games back in the PS1 era, Crash Bandicoot Cortex strikes back...... good times.


This wasn't about Crash winning, it was about PS1 winning by putting it in peoples minds that the PS1 was cool and Nintendo was for losers.

It worked.

Please, nobody was convinced Playstation was cool by a guy in a mascot marsupial suit yelling childish things. The library did that.


Yes, yes it did. It made Crash seem cool. Sony basically took Sega's ideas and ran with them. Remember the commercial where Sony was launching N64's in the air and blowing them to pieces with a shotgun? Kids and adults gobbled that shit up like candy and beer.



enditall727 on 01 September 2013
ironmanDX said:
curl-6 said:

Ugh, I hate it when the big three, any of them, take cheap potshots at the competition, it makes them look like a bunch of dickhead schoolchildren. You're adults, act like it for fuck's sake. I find it a massive turnoff when a company bashes another. That commercial would make me want Crash Bandicoot less, not more. (For the record, Crash is awesome, at least on PS1, and shouldn't be dirtied by association with such mud-slinging)


This. The most mud could be swung at Sony. There last decade or so have been terrible. Sure, they're starting to turn it around now, doesn't mean the other 2 companies aren't in much, much better positions financially.


But.. The mud has already been slung at them for it

 

I remember it clearly. Sony was getting HAMMERED back in 06 and 07



MDMAlliance on 01 September 2013



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curl-6 on 01 September 2013
prayformojo said:
curl-6 said:
prayformojo said:
NobleTeam360 said:
OT: look where Crash is today. I loved those games back in the PS1 era, Crash Bandicoot Cortex strikes back...... good times.


This wasn't about Crash winning, it was about PS1 winning by putting it in peoples minds that the PS1 was cool and Nintendo was for losers.

It worked.

Please, nobody was convinced Playstation was cool by a guy in a mascot marsupial suit yelling childish things. The library did that.


Yes, yes it did. It made Crash seem cool. Sony basically took Sega's ideas and ran with them. Remember the commercial where Sony was launching N64's in the air and blowing them to pieces with a shotgun? Kids and adults gobbled that shit up like candy and beer.

The latter was Sega, not Sony.

Not even primary school kids thought a guy in a plushie suit was "cool".



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enditall727 on 01 September 2013
prayformojo said:
curl-6 said:
prayformojo said:
NobleTeam360 said:
OT: look where Crash is today. I loved those games back in the PS1 era, Crash Bandicoot Cortex strikes back...... good times.


This wasn't about Crash winning, it was about PS1 winning by putting it in peoples minds that the PS1 was cool and Nintendo was for losers.

It worked.

Please, nobody was convinced Playstation was cool by a guy in a mascot marsupial suit yelling childish things. The library did that.


Yes, yes it did. It made Crash seem cool. Sony basically took Sega's ideas and ran with them. Remember the commercial where Sony was launching N64's in the air and blowing them to pieces with a shotgun? Kids and adults gobbled that shit up like candy and beer.


Links to the video or GET THE FU-

ahem..

 

Could you kindly provide the link to that commercial? =)



curl-6 on 01 September 2013
enditall727 said:
prayformojo said:
curl-6 said:

Please, nobody was convinced Playstation was cool by a guy in a mascot marsupial suit yelling childish things. The library did that.


Yes, yes it did. It made Crash seem cool. Sony basically took Sega's ideas and ran with them. Remember the commercial where Sony was launching N64's in the air and blowing them to pieces with a shotgun? Kids and adults gobbled that shit up like candy and beer.


Links to the video or GET THE FU-

ahem..

 

Could you kindly provide the link to that commercial? =)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cIvo8flaBc

It was Sega, and it got them nowhere. This kind of advertising stopped working after the Genesis days.



ironmanDX on 01 September 2013
enditall727 said:
ironmanDX said:
curl-6 said:

Ugh, I hate it when the big three, any of them, take cheap potshots at the competition, it makes them look like a bunch of dickhead schoolchildren. You're adults, act like it for fuck's sake. I find it a massive turnoff when a company bashes another. That commercial would make me want Crash Bandicoot less, not more. (For the record, Crash is awesome, at least on PS1, and shouldn't be dirtied by association with such mud-slinging)


This. The most mud could be swung at Sony. There last decade or so have been terrible. Sure, they're starting to turn it around now, doesn't mean the other 2 companies aren't in much, much better positions financially.


But.. The mud has already been slung at them for it

 

I remember it clearly. Sony was getting HAMMERED back in 06 and 07

I joined here in 08 and don't remember it from another company, unless you're referring to users?





the_dengle on 01 September 2013

The commercial in the OP is funny. Funny in an ironic way, not necessarily in an intended comedic way. "Feeling like your days are numbered?" Now look at where Mario is and where Crash is some 15 years later... Sony may have beaten the N64 and the GameCube, but they certainly didn't beat Mario, and they certainly haven't beaten Nintendo.



enditall727 on 01 September 2013
ironmanDX said:
enditall727 said:
ironmanDX said:
curl-6 said:

Ugh, I hate it when the big three, any of them, take cheap potshots at the competition, it makes them look like a bunch of dickhead schoolchildren. You're adults, act like it for fuck's sake. I find it a massive turnoff when a company bashes another. That commercial would make me want Crash Bandicoot less, not more. (For the record, Crash is awesome, at least on PS1, and shouldn't be dirtied by association with such mud-slinging)


This. The most mud could be swung at Sony. There last decade or so have been terrible. Sure, they're starting to turn it around now, doesn't mean the other 2 companies aren't in much, much better positions financially.


But.. The mud has already been slung at them for it

 

I remember it clearly. Sony was getting HAMMERED back in 06 and 07

I joined here in 08 and don't remember it from another company, unless you're referring to users?

Im talking about the media