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c03n3nj0 on 11 January 2009

You just lost a customer Sony! Red Sox FTW! :D

But it's still good advertising for Sony, and all those baseball could buy MLB 08 The Show for the ps3 or something...



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Max King of the Wild on 11 January 2009
llewdebkram said:

Could have the reverse effect on fans of other teams though.
Sony has a presence in the Yankee stadium and therefore could be seen as a supporter of them causing rival fans to be pulled more towards an Xbox360 purchase.

A bit like celebrities endorsing a political party and voters thinking, if they're supporting them I'll vote some other way.

 

 So cubs fans wont get US cellular phone?



llewdebkram on 11 January 2009
Kzoellner said:
llewdebkram said:
Could have the reverse effect on fans of other teams though.
Sony has a presence in the Yankee stadium and therefore could be seen as a supporter of them causing rival fans to be pulled more towards an Xbox360 purchase.

highly doubt it.  Its kind of a 90's marketing scheme.  Watch dumb and dumber every scene has an "over the top" advertising for an item... at&t was the worse in it.  we will probably start seeing sony in a lot of other places coming up.

 

I'm sure as in the UK with Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea etc fans in the USA are very passionate about their team and would definately be swayed (especially if they have not made up their mind between PS3 and Xbox360) if a rival team they 'hated' was seen as a supporter of a particular console.

I'm not sure where you're coming from with with the Dumb and Dumber reference but there isn't the rivalry between one movie and another like there is between sports teams.

 

 

 



Max King of the Wild on 11 January 2009
llewdebkram said:
Kzoellner said:
llewdebkram said:
Could have the reverse effect on fans of other teams though.
Sony has a presence in the Yankee stadium and therefore could be seen as a supporter of them causing rival fans to be pulled more towards an Xbox360 purchase.

highly doubt it.  Its kind of a 90's marketing scheme.  Watch dumb and dumber every scene has an "over the top" advertising for an item... at&t was the worse in it.  we will probably start seeing sony in a lot of other places coming up.

 

I'm sure as in the UK with Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea etc fans in the USA are very passionate about their team and would definately be swayed (especially if they have not made up their mind between PS3 and Xbox360) if a rival team they 'hated' was seen as a supporter of a particular console.

I'm not sure where you're coming from with with the Dumb and Dumber reference but there isn't the rivalry between one movie and another like there is in sport.

 

 sounds like soccer fans are idiots... so let me get this straight if rebok sponsors a team the fans of a rival team will only buy nike? Psh sounds dumb



llewdebkram on 11 January 2009
Max King of the Wild said:
llewdebkram said:
Kzoellner said:
llewdebkram said:
Could have the reverse effect on fans of other teams though.
Sony has a presence in the Yankee stadium and therefore could be seen as a supporter of them causing rival fans to be pulled more towards an Xbox360 purchase.

highly doubt it.  Its kind of a 90's marketing scheme.  Watch dumb and dumber every scene has an "over the top" advertising for an item... at&t was the worse in it.  we will probably start seeing sony in a lot of other places coming up.

 

I'm sure as in the UK with Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea etc fans in the USA are very passionate about their team and would definately be swayed (especially if they have not made up their mind between PS3 and Xbox360) if a rival team they 'hated' was seen as a supporter of a particular console.

I'm not sure where you're coming from with with the Dumb and Dumber reference but there isn't the rivalry between one movie and another like there is in sport.

 

 sounds like soccer fans are idiots... so let me get this straight if rebok sponsors a team the fans of a rival team will only buy nike? Psh sounds dumb

Well I don't know about 'soccer' we don' have that in the UK, we play  'Football' :0P

I don't think sports branded goods has the same rivalry as  the two HD consoles, you never see stories about Nike spinning their sales figures and comparing their superior goods to Reebok in an attemt to take market share away.

If there is a team A that you hate and team B you support and the manager and players of team A say go and buy X product over Y product you're bound to be swayed towards product Y.

Similarly I'm sure it would have an effect if the Backstreet Boys arein advertisments saying 'hey go and buy an Xbox 360 we think it's cool' whilst the Red Hot Chili Peppers promote PS3.

 

 

 



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McDonaldsGuy on 11 January 2009

Sony should start securing exclusives (such as Tekken 6 and Final Fantasy XIII!) and getting games out already instead of this stuff.



Kzoellner on 11 January 2009
llewdebkram said:
Max King of the Wild said:
llewdebkram said:
Kzoellner said:
llewdebkram said:
Could have the reverse effect on fans of other teams though.
Sony has a presence in the Yankee stadium and therefore could be seen as a supporter of them causing rival fans to be pulled more towards an Xbox360 purchase.

highly doubt it.  Its kind of a 90's marketing scheme.  Watch dumb and dumber every scene has an "over the top" advertising for an item... at&t was the worse in it.  we will probably start seeing sony in a lot of other places coming up.

 

I'm sure as in the UK with Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea etc fans in the USA are very passionate about their team and would definately be swayed (especially if they have not made up their mind between PS3 and Xbox360) if a rival team they 'hated' was seen as a supporter of a particular console.

I'm not sure where you're coming from with with the Dumb and Dumber reference but there isn't the rivalry between one movie and another like there is in sport.

 

 sounds like soccer fans are idiots... so let me get this straight if rebok sponsors a team the fans of a rival team will only buy nike? Psh sounds dumb

Well I don't know about 'soccer' we don' have that in the UK, we play  'Football' :0P

I don't think sports branded goods has the same rivalry as  the two HD consoles, you never see stories about Nike spinning their sales figures and comparing their superior goods to Reebok in an attemt to take market share away.

If there is a team A that you hate and team B you support and the manager and players of team A say go and buy X product over Y product you're bound to be swayed towards product Y.

Similarly I'm sure it would have an effect if the Backstreet Boys arein advertisments saying 'hey go and buy an Xbox 360 we think it's cool' whilst the Red Hot Chili Peppers promote PS3.

 

 

 

^ 360 did that with MTV....  No Americans will buy things that impress them.  Doesn't really matter who it is. as long s you are impressed.  it is just in your face advertisement when I mention the movie.  

 



Dallinor on 11 January 2009

That's quite a big advertising deal. I wonder how much money traded hands.

Sony like to focus advertising on sporting events it seems, they're also the sponser of the Champions League, a huge football event, in Europe.



 

Max King of the Wild on 11 January 2009
Dallinor said:
That's quite a big advertising deal. I wonder how much money traded hands.

Sony like to focus advertising on sporting events it seems, they're also the sponser of the Champions League, a huge football event, in Europe.

 

 

 

Probablly none. All the TV's and video cameras in the stadium will be sony which the yankees probablly wont pay for and sony will be getting a lot of ad space. Like "make some noise time presented by sony and the ps3" or "replay presented by SONY and MLB the show, the best baseball game only for the ps3" on the big screen or "fan cam presented by SONY Bravia" in between innings.



Jason77 on 11 January 2009

good job Sony!!

I like Chien-Ming Wang