As the year is coming to an end the competition is warming up ... and this time its going to be extremely important for Sony PS3.. and if they don't rise strongly then i think it will be too late for them to take the second spot.. for MS its going to be important to not let Sony have large leads week over week.

Also from October i think some great games are going to start laucnhing like SOCOM, LBP and then Resistance 2, GOW2 and so on....

Also the pre orders are starting for some very important games and i think the time for some extensive marketing and advertisement is drawing much closer...

For Wii: I don't think they need much marketing, they have such a strong word of mouth adveristment that its enough for them.

For Sony: They have i think the best line up for the Fall 2008... Blu Ray has won the format war, they have games for casual, hardcore, FPS and all the gaming audience, but their achilles heel so far is marketing and advertisment... rather i think the early advertisment have done more harm than good for them... They need to have very good targetted advertisements covering all the bases and in a very amusing, entertaining and fun filled way, not in that creepy, scary, spooky way they showed at the time of launch of PS3... i m referring to Playstation Life ads.

Secondly they have many games and i think they don't have much resources so they will be required to balance the cost and value of advertisement, but i hope they manage to do it well and cover every gaming genre well... which i very much doubt... but if i remember they did change their advertisement company...

For MS: they have done some good marketing the past and they have always spent a lot on marketing ... so i think they will keep doing that... and i m sure they r going to be advertising heavily this fall.

So who you think will have the best ad and most ad for the Fall 2008.?

ps. Btw if you find new ads i think we can add them in this thread also... just to see if there is any improvement over the last yr advertisement..

well i know on bravo chanel there are game adds all over the place and always has been. it just depends if they catch peoples eyes at the end of the day.

very good thread though, i hope it stays clean

The best ads will go to the 360. Remember the madworld gears commercial? Then you would understand.


The Ps3 and 360 may have the same amount of ads. But, the most ads go to the Wii imo. I mean, there will be many ads for Wii Sports and Animal Crossing should recieve many ads since it caters to the same people ds does.

In that last post, I meant Wii Music not Wii Sports. So, if anyone gets on me about this mistake, I would have knowledge about their stupidity.

Microsoft always has the best marketing and they also have the best games for the rest of the year.

Depends on the type of marketing. Are we talking about marketing that appeals to the core gamer or marketing that sells games and machines.

Core Gamer Marketing
MS is fine. They do well and show off cool games.
Sony needs focus on how cool owners will be if they own PS3. Not the machine.
Wii. ummmm hmmmm. show that they have core games more

Marketing to sell machines & product
Wii wins
Sony needs to focus that the customer will have fun and enjoy themselves. Not focus on how cool the machine is.
MS same as Sony.

Nintendo, then MS, then Sony. Unless Sony comes up with something a good as last year.

Which good ads Sony produced last year.?

For Nintendo: They don't need any (might do like last year, meaning they will simply remove all ads from TV stations);

For Sony: They need to show more gameplay, not cutscenes. If they can focus on Little BIG Planet for the Holiday season, then it might be a good way to sell some hardware;

For Microsoft: They just need to show Gears of War 2, honestly.

I'm not really sure which one will have the best ads, but Sony really need to create something special with LBP.

This one is hard to beat...