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prayformojo on 01 September 2013
curl-6 said:
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.


Got them no where? The Gensis beat the SNES for three straight years (1991-1994). lol. If it weren't for DKC and Sega's shift towards to Saturn, the SNES might not have even won that generation.



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prayformojo on 01 September 2013
the_dengle said:

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.


Actually, they kinda have. At least with home consoles. Sony is number one all time in combined home console units sold.



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

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.


Got them no where? The Gensis beat the SNES for three straight years (1991-1994). lol. If it weren't for DKC and Sega's shift towards to Saturn, the SNES might not have even won that generation.

That ad wasn't for the Genesis, it was for the Saturn, which bombed. By the end of the SNES generation, this kind of advertising had lost its bite. Sega tried it extensively against PS1 and N64 without success.



the_dengle on 01 September 2013
prayformojo said:
the_dengle said:

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.


Actually, they kinda have. At least with home consoles. Sony is number one all time in combined home console units sold.

Then Sony has damned themselves by releasing the PSP and Vita and inviting a comparison on the handheld front.

Nintendo also trumps them in software sales.

Regardless, Nintendo is still standing. They haven't been beaten by anyone. They're still one of the most important companies in the industry.



archbrix on 01 September 2013

Well, since we're going there:

Nintendo didn't resort to this kind of advertising much, although after Sega's "Genesis Does What Nintendon't" ads after they switched slogans to "Welcome to the Next Level", Nintendo did have a bit of fun in their Starfox commercial by saying: "Why go to the next level when you can go light-years beyond?"

But there were others before the Genesis/SNES war:

 

And it goes back even further than NES. There were several commercials like this one from Intellivision back in the day:



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NobleTeam360 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.

What? I was like 5 or 6 years old when I picked up crash bandicoot I never once saw the T.V. ad for it until today. 



Otakumegane on 01 September 2013

But Super Mario 64 still holds up today. The 1st Crash? Not so much.

Crash 3 is so much better.



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platformmaster918 on 01 September 2013
Otakumegane said:

But Super Mario 64 still holds up today. The 1st Crash? Not so much.

Crash 3 is so much better.

I agree on this.  Though I don't think Mario is great today as it was and Crash 3 is every bit the game I remember.  Ocarina of Time however was still amazing when I played through it completely for the first time in 2011 (had played it for very lengthy sections during its gen but always at a friends and we never finished our save file).  Spyro 3 seems terrible today yet 2 and 1 hold up wonderfully for some reason.  Star Fox seems really bad today for me but Goldeneye was a blast to play 4 player even recently at a family reunion.  I don't know what makes certain games hold up better for me.




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curl-6 on 01 September 2013
Otakumegane said:

But Super Mario 64 still holds up today. The 1st Crash? Not so much.

Crash 3 is so much better.

I think Crash 1 holds up fine.



Machiavellian on 01 September 2013
platformmaster918 said:

I just found this commercial and it makes me realize how sensitive so many people are nowadays.  If Sony could be THIS direct back then then why can't they take little jabs when MS majorly effs their policies?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mTi5EaocGaY


I have to agree when you see a company always trying to make their competitor look bad instead of making their stuff look good, it makes you wonder how weak they feel about their product.  Back in the Early PS3 Days when Sony was smelling their success to much, they really became very crash in their statements and commercials.

Lately, we are seeing that old Sony coming back lately with their statements concerning the competition.  This is the Sony I do not like or for that matter any of the big three.  If a company is confident about their product and what they are doing, they do not need to stoop to forum fanboy garbage to show how awesome their product is.  When a company starts to stoop that low, it makes me wonder if they are not confident in their product and they are trying to deflect perception.