Thats it

Yeah, that's what they could mean, but does it hurt to be a bit more specific? Especially when other advertisements of their do actually make the specification or disclaimer about it?

Well, they said "in the world", and left it there. The ambiguity works in both ways.

It's not that clearly if the question can be posed in the first place...no?

Thing is, you can't add "ever" in spanish in regards to how the sentence is created. It could very well mean best selling console in the world, like that, or best selling console in the world ever; it's lost in translation either way.

A small disclaimer wouldn't have hurt anyone. :(

There's the HDR thing, which I dunno if it can be expanded into more than one full new way, but still...

But...3DS is, like some people have pointed out here. Unless 3DS isn't a console.

But what does this have to do with the question I'm posing here?

As in a trend? Because that'd be more contrived, considering like those other users pointed out, that 3DS is the best-selling console in the world, right now. Going by this "in the world" accepted definition here, I guess.

BraLoD said: I don't even know how to answer to this thread, so I'll be making this my answer, Wright.

You could always share your views in regards to what has been said in here, overall.

That's what I found most interesting. Sony has clearly pointed out a disclaimer like such in other advertisement videos. They didn't here.

Well, that's certainly an angle worth discussing, I think...

Maybe I didn't explain it properly. The way the Spanish advert says it doesn't mean "the console that's currently selling the most in the world", but, as literal as the translation can get, "the best-selling console in the world". If this were to be a trend a disclaimer must have been made, because otherwise the implications of such are lost in Spanish.

Well, you know me already. I'm nitpicky and the Devil's Advocate by nature. Besides, a bit of discussion is never a bad thing, no?

So it's just past weekend? How do you know? Why not the whole month? Why not the whole gen? Regardless, videogame companies don't work exactly the same as the movie business; they tend to make official sales statements that don't just apply to a single weekend.

Doesn't feel like nitpicking, though, if you were to listen it in Spanish. As the sentence is structured in a way that leaves too much to the imagination.

So when a different advert made the disclaimer, just to avoid precisely the fact that it could be interpreted the wrong way, means that such advert treated their public in a more retarded way? Or are you saying Playstation consider Spanish people to be more clever than British?

Somehow this ambiguity would be classified as "misleading" and "false advertising" if applied to Microsoft, but in this case it's oh so obvious. Interesting

What double standards, I don't know of these double standards. These are not the double standard you are looking for. 

Is it the same advertising company? Nintendo, Sony, and MS use many different media companies to advertise their products. I'll concede if it is the same advertising company who made it but that can be hard to tell. But honestly, if you understood what is meant then what really is the issue? 

That's the thing, I didn't fully understand it, hence why I'm posting it here to see people's approach to it. Being translated into English, it seems more clear to everyone else. The original sentence in Spanish? It is still as ambiguous as a J. D. Salinger book.

And then again, one advert got a full disclaimer about it, this one completely left it blank. But it's probably like you said. British people (and myself, out of the exception of the later) are more retarded than Spanish people, hence why they need such things in the first place.

It sounds kind of misleading yes, when you listen the sentence in spanish seems like they talk about the best selling console ever and if you know nothing about console sales is really easy to be confused, which may be what the ad is looking for.

Alright, if it sounds different in English than Spanish than I will concede my point. I didn't realize they worded it so tricky (thats the word I'll use here) in Spanish.

Do you have an example? I mean...I would be surprised to see people giving MS a hard time for something as benign as this.

Double Post.