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toastboy44562 on 23 December 2008

lol



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Spankey on 23 December 2008

lol nice list.
In my opinion though, if there's any "Disaster" this gen, its the HD consoles compared to the Wii.



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Paperdiego on 23 December 2008
blazinhead89 said:
@Paperdiego 18,000,000 People disagree with you, If M$ Or Ninty charged 600$ For their system, do you really think theyd get as far as Sony has?

 

18 million people may disagree with me but it seems that the other 120 million or so people who bought the ps2 but not the ps3 do agree with me.

 

and to answer your question on if microsoft of nintendo could sell there console for $600.

microsoft and nintendo didnt have the brand power after the gamecube and xbox so no.

but seeing how last christmas season wii's were selling on ebay for more than 600 i think nintendo has built as pretty nice brand name and sopny has killed its brand name.

 

your perents used to say "go play your nintendo"

than they would say "go play you playstation"

Now they say "Lets go play wii"

 

 

 

 



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Showertea on 24 December 2008

Basically, I'm going to keep this bookmarked and use it whenever any sony fan says "WHY DOES EVERYBODY HATE ON SONY?"

I'll give you a hint: It's because they've consistently acted like out of touch douchebags for the last 4 years.



Wii has more 20 million sellers than PS3 has 5 million sellers.

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HappySqurriel on 24 December 2008
The Ghost of RubangB said:
HappySqurriel said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
This list didn't include the time Sony was caught using false advertising with a fictional critic for some of their movies. They created this guy, David Manning, of the Ridgefield Press, and he gave Sony movies great reviews. Sony pretended they were innocent, but settled out of court for $1.5 million, and fired two of their employees.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4741259.stm

The movies were A Knight's Tale, Hollow Man, The Patriot, Vertical Limit, and The Animal. The false ads were in 2001, and Sony had to pay the $1.5 million in 2005. So they were already pretty bad before the rootkit scandal and the exploding laptop batteries.

On dishonest activities missed on this list, there was also no mention of Sony paying professional artists in major US cities to paint graffiti on walls to show grass-roots support for the PSP.

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/04/0457249

Oh yeah I forgot about that one. That one was really great because it even pissed off a lot of my non-gaming friends who were into art or graffiti, and they've hated Sony ever since. They didn't know about rootkits or false advertising or all the awesome quotes from Sony execs concerning their fans who would work 2nd jobs to buy PS3s even if they had no games, but they all now know Sony as the company who hires professional artists to pretend they're local graffiti artists, as if local graffiti artists want to advertise for consumer electronic game and media devices. Even better than All I Want For Christmas Is A PSP, because at least that one was embarrassingly hilarious to watch.

 

Its actually kind of interesting to see how often Sony has offended people with their advertisements, like their Playstation Jesus ( http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dTO7_Eys85U/SP-ww9lbwKI/AAAAAAAAAUU/6Uwso5nKr1I/s1600-h/sony%2520ad.jpg ), the "Racist" Squirrels ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCMczF6naN8 ), and their "White is comming" ads ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vnzAMqDw4w&feature=related )

If there was only one case of this I would say that people were being over-sensitive, but it seems like Sony is constantly trying to push the limits and is getting burned.



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Spankey on 24 December 2008
Paperdiego said:
blazinhead89 said:
@Paperdiego 18,000,000 People disagree with you, If M$ Or Ninty charged 600$ For their system, do you really think theyd get as far as Sony has?

 

18 million people may disagree with me but it seems that the other 120 million or so people who bought the ps2 but not the ps3 do agree with me.

 

 

oh yes! I forgot that the PS2 sold 120 million units in two years.

Thanks for the reminder!



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chaospluto on 24 December 2008

Now all we need is one from MS and Nintendo, because we all know Sony isn't the only Company that has negatives :)

Also, I won't contribute links or any of that.  I simply don't care and I don't really have the patience nor the time to look them all up.



  • 2010 MUST Haves: WKC, Heavy Rain, GoWIII, Fable III, Mass Effect 2, Bayonetta, Darksiders, FFXIII, Alan Wake, No More Heroes 2, Fragile Dreams: FRotM, Trinity: SoZ, BFBC2.
  • Older Need To Buys: Super Mario Bros. Wii, Mario Kart Wii, Deadspace, Demon's Souls, Uncharted 2.

There is definitely more to list that I want, but that's my main focus there.

Paperdiego on 24 December 2008
Spankey said:
Paperdiego said:
blazinhead89 said:
@Paperdiego 18,000,000 People disagree with you, If M$ Or Ninty charged 600$ For their system, do you really think theyd get as far as Sony has?

 

18 million people may disagree with me but it seems that the other 120 million or so people who bought the ps2 but not the ps3 do agree with me.

 

 

oh yes! I forgot that the PS2 sold 120 million units in two years.

Thanks for the reminder!

 

Ps2 had roughly 25 million

gamecube had 9 million

and x box had roughly 11 million

 

after two years on the market

Wii has almost 45 million

360 had 14 million

ps3 has 18 million

 

seeing how ps3 is the only one to actually not go up in sales compared to its predeccsors then yeah i would say sony brand power is gone.

 

amnd like i said on the other post.

its "Lets go play wii now"

selling 20 million more consoles at the same point in its life than the most succesful console is pretty huge

 



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chaospluto on 24 December 2008
HappySqurriel said:

Its actually kind of interesting to see how often Sony has offended people with their advertisements, like their Playstation Jesus ( http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dTO7_Eys85U/SP-ww9lbwKI/AAAAAAAAAUU/6Uwso5nKr1I/s1600-h/sony%2520ad.jpg ), the "Racist" Squirrels ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCMczF6naN8 ), and their "White is comming" ads ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vnzAMqDw4w&feature=related )

If there was only one case of this I would say that people were being over-sensitive, but it seems like Sony is constantly trying to push the limits and is getting burned.

I don't see how that's racist, watched the whole thing.

 



  • 2010 MUST Haves: WKC, Heavy Rain, GoWIII, Fable III, Mass Effect 2, Bayonetta, Darksiders, FFXIII, Alan Wake, No More Heroes 2, Fragile Dreams: FRotM, Trinity: SoZ, BFBC2.
  • Older Need To Buys: Super Mario Bros. Wii, Mario Kart Wii, Deadspace, Demon's Souls, Uncharted 2.

There is definitely more to list that I want, but that's my main focus there.

Spankey on 24 December 2008
Paperdiego said:
Spankey said:
Paperdiego said:
blazinhead89 said:
@Paperdiego 18,000,000 People disagree with you, If M$ Or Ninty charged 600$ For their system, do you really think theyd get as far as Sony has?

 

18 million people may disagree with me but it seems that the other 120 million or so people who bought the ps2 but not the ps3 do agree with me.

 

 

oh yes! I forgot that the PS2 sold 120 million units in two years.

Thanks for the reminder!

 

Ps2 had roughly 25 million

gamecube had 9 million

and x box had roughly 11 million

 

after two years on the market

Wii has almost 45 million

360 had 14 million

ps3 has 18 million

 

seeing how ps3 is the only one to actually not go up in sales compared to its predeccsors then yeah i would say sony brand power is gone.

 

amnd like i said on the other post.

its "Lets go play wii now"

selling 20 million more consoles at the same point in its life than the most succesful console is pretty huge

 

 

Lol say all you want about the PS3 not selling very fast, then take a quick look at this graph. MS should be more worried than Sony.

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php

The Wii pwns everything.



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