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Leynos on 15 May 2020

When Stolar left SEGA. Their marketing got real bad again. I had to censor one of them but it showed just about everything from old man ass to old man crotch. The other is a man fucking a fish. They got so many complaints about Man Ass one that they revised it in later magazines with a towel over him.

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Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

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Shiken on 15 May 2020

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Darwinianevolution on 15 May 2020



You know it deserves the GOTY.

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Leynos on 15 May 2020

Ubisoft for Splinter Cell Conviction had a guy dress up in full tactical gear with a gun and go into public stores as a bad guy. Of course, police were called.

N-gage was marketed at live events with women having the price tag written on their breasts.

Xbox One. TV TV TV TV TV SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS

Wii U "New controller" is it a Wii or a new console?

Name your baby Turok in 2000.

When Tiger tried to take on Nintendo these were their ads!

A woman asks how much does it cost. Angry midget calls her a moron. Yup, great ad guys.



Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

Darwinianevolution on 15 May 2020
Leynos said:

"anime fan on prom night"

Oh boy, I remember that car crash of an ad. Who looked at that and thought that was a good idea? XD



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Bofferbrauer2 on 15 May 2020

This game stinks!

And I'm surprised nobody mentioned it before. Probably the mother too of all shitty campaigns.

Also EA's fake religious protesters for Dante's Inferno

Ah yeah, and this:

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Mr_No on 15 May 2020

The entire Xbox One reveal back in 2013. Not only when they were focusing on making the X1 a cable receiver, but also forced a feature to connect online to be able to even play a single player game. Even Don Mattrick was bold enough to tell Geoff Keighly that you should stay with the Xbox 360 if you don't have any internet connectivity. They were staunch on DRM for a couple of months before moving away from it, but the damage was done.

How was that not dumb marketing?

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Cerebralbore101 on 15 May 2020
CaptainExplosion said:

Could this be the real reason Nintendo doesn't have many fans in Australia?

I don't think that's real. CGI like that shouldn't have been available in 1987.



javi741 on 16 May 2020

Don Mattrick 2013-"If you're unable to get any sort online connectivity, we have a system for them, it's called Xbox 360"

Bernie Stolar 1997-"The Saturn is not our future"

Wii U in its entirety was a marketing disaster, many people didn't even know it existed or it was just a controller add-on. If the Wii U were called something else I think it could've at least sold twice as much as it did.