The ad should be an hour long codec message where snake discusses existentialism with the ressurected computer virus, Nietzsche.

@Vagabond

have you been reading my diary? Best commercial evar!

You really prove your name op.

Its pathetic you think MGS needs to be all that advertised, you really have no clue how hardcore its audience is do you.

Sonys adds have been pretty good for Uncharted Ratchet and PS3 overall, do you even haev a clue what you are posting about ?

 The only good Sony ads I can remember recently are these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgHZ2xaigwk

I only ever saw these a few times on TV too... 

I'm feeling two emotions right now , pity for you and extreme stupidity for me reading this.

MGS4 will sell a lot of copies and will boost hardware temporarily, but that game coming out will not all of a sudden make the PS3 sell like the Wii. Right now PS3's only barrier is price. Think about how sales have been affected over the past year.

Over the summer there was a price cut(sort of) and it saw a temporary boost in sales but nothing lasting because people who would pay $500 for a PS3 already bought one of the 20gig models.

Then in the late fall PS3 went down to $400 and sales boosted again and haven't gone down since. This because a new group of people who wouldn't pay more than $400 for a gaming system were now buying the system.

Another event that has had a big effect is the end of the format war. Sales of the PS3 have definitely gone up because Blu-ray is the winner.

Can anyone think of a single game that have increased hardware sales for more than 2 or 3 weeks. It is no longer the case where there are no good games for the PS3. Now the only thing stopping consumers from buying a PS3 is its ridiculous price(and the awesome power of the Wii).

^^^ then you my friend live an extremly sorry life

edit: i don't mean nintendo zealot i mean million

So far Sony has had some good strategies which have proved to benefit hardware sales. They did a good job with strategies pertaining to the Blu-ray victory. I am sure that Sony is completely aware that a well thought out plan is needed to utilize MGS4 in order to push consoles.

PS3 > 360 is extremely unlikely... The best case scanerio is Sony reaching within 2 million of X360..

MGS does have a hard core audience.. but how big.? i don't think its more than 2 million... plus you have to realise how many of them might have already purchased a PS3..?

So the real issue is to move the hardware with MGS 4 and for that they need to make MGS4 bundle look like a bargain so that it can have new followers...