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DonFerrari on 18 May 2020
curl-6 said:

Well, when advertising outright deters people from buying the product it's trying to sell, I think that's basically the definition of failure.

Some marketing is so good that it produces a negative net balance of buyers =p, money well spent.

m0ney said:

It's not marketing, but in 90s eastern europe had some underground game translation and 'publishing' companies if you know what I mean. Some of their absurd translations have become folklore, for example they translated Tomb Raider as Томбовский Рейдер which translated back to English means Tombian Raider, like Tomb meant a city, a country or a nation. Some games had so trashy voice acting you wouldn't believe.

Don't we love shoddy amateur work?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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melbye on 18 May 2020

In a way the mass copyright-claiming of Youtube-videos Sony and Naughty Dog has been doing in the last few weeks, videos that only talked about the leaks but didn't get show any of it or actually the content leaked



curl-6 on 18 May 2020

Ah, here is one I'd forgotten; EA's marketing for Dante's Inferno, which included hiring fake "Christian protesters" to hold a fake protest against the game at E3, and encouraging gamers to "commit acts of lust" by taking photos of themselves with EA's "booth babes", with the winner getting an awkward fake date with two models.

Understandably, this did not go down well at all and it boggles the mind how such bad ideas were ever approved.

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sethnintendo on 18 May 2020
SvennoJ said:

Looks like a fun game.  The harder you slap the ass the more points you get right?



sethnintendo on 18 May 2020
Leynos said:
Yup. Sony's PSP marketing prevented me from getting one for years. When I learned Ys series was coming to PSP I needed one and a friend gave me one. Played the hell out of it and just this month about a decade later it died so I had to replace it. One of my fave handhelds of all time. Take it over the DS any day now but boy it's marketing sucked from racist dustballs to Marcus.

Sony should have advertised the PSP as a SNES emulator more. 



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DonFerrari on 18 May 2020
curl-6 said:

Ah, here is one I'd forgotten; EA's marketing for Dante's Inferno, which included hiring fake "Christian protesters" to pretend to hold a fake protest against the game at E3, and encouraging gamers to "commit acts of lust" by taking photos of themselves with EA's "booth babes", with the winner getting an awkward fake date with two models.

Understandably, this did not go down well at all and it boggles the mind how such bad ideas were ever approved.

At least it is creative.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

curl-6 on 18 May 2020
DonFerrari said:
curl-6 said:

Ah, here is one I'd forgotten; EA's marketing for Dante's Inferno, which included hiring fake "Christian protesters" to pretend to hold a fake protest against the game at E3, and encouraging gamers to "commit acts of lust" by taking photos of themselves with EA's "booth babes", with the winner getting an awkward fake date with two models.

Understandably, this did not go down well at all and it boggles the mind how such bad ideas were ever approved.

At least it is creative.

Well, so's jumping out of a low flying plane into a sewerage treatment pond while dressed as Captain Planet, doesn't mean it's a good idea. :P



DonFerrari on 18 May 2020
curl-6 said:
DonFerrari said:

At least it is creative.

Well, so's jumping out of a low flying plane into a sewerage treatment pond while dressed as Captain Planet, doesn't mean it's a good idea. :P

Can't dispute that.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Leynos on 18 May 2020

This is mid to late 90s or early 2000s level of owe the edge kinda garbage.



Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

SvennoJ on 18 May 2020
sethnintendo said:
SvennoJ said:

Looks like a fun game.  The harder you slap the ass the more points you get right?

I have no idea, here's the full commercial