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mike_intellivision on 19 October 2009

PullusPardus said:
 

(IMBEDDED FOX NEWS VIDEO FROM YOUTUBE ON GTA IV DEBUT WAS HERE)


listen to 00:28 and you will lol

This shows how much Fox News fact-checks.

(Sony Xbox and Microsoft PS3).

 

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loy310 on 19 October 2009

Maybe he just don't care about the topic (video games) enough to know what he is talking about, same with FOX News. Most of the world could not care less about video games.
I can imagine this influence misinformation about the game industry.



Tailgunner on 19 October 2009
angrypoolman said:
Khuutra said:
angrypoolman said:
Tailgunner said:
Tons of stories about people asking dumb questions when I worked at EB, but my favourite was a 40 year old mom coming in 'looking for PCP for my son'. Her husband was with her and you could see he was embarassed. He was shaking his head, trying to correct her.

lol, when I worked at GameStop a lady came in and asked for a PCP. I just lolled to myself and showed her the PSP, then I showed her a DS and told her about that so she would know that better handhelds do, in fact, exist. I showed her all the cool features on it, and the wide variety of games both new and used. I also told her it doesn't cost as much. She was much more interested in the DS, so I sold her that. lol.

Your stories about your escapades at Gamestop are one of the quiet horrors of my evenings. When I am given pause and made to reflect upon the influence that one person with an agenda can have in terms of the experiences afforded to other people, my blood runs cold.

lol cool.


Yeah, I was laughing myself.  But I told her about some better NDMA receptor antagonists than phencyclidine and I ended up selling her some ketamin.



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BMaker11 on 19 October 2009
PullusPardus said:


listen to 00:28 and you will lol

I lol'd



TWRoO on 19 October 2009

I'd say it is actually good marketing on the part of Microsoft (and to a point Nintendo too)

Microsoft has managed to detach the Xbox from itself, which is good because a growing number of people (whether rightly or wrongly) view MS as an evil corporation.

With people thinking other things are Nintendo's it is not necessarily Nintendo's good marketing now (as really Nintendo should be putting across that only their products are theirs... otherwise people will be buying xboxs when they could have bought an actual Nintendo product) but more like good marketing in the past as well as product satisfaction and such, people think games, they think Nintendo.



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Khuutra on 19 October 2009
TWRoO said:
I'd say it is actually good marketing on the part of Microsoft (and to a point Nintendo too)

Microsoft has managed to detach the Xbox from itself, which is good because a growing number of people (whether rightly or wrongly) view MS as an evil corporation.

With people thinking other things are Nintendo's it is not necessarily Nintendo's good marketing now (as really Nintendo should be putting across that only their products are theirs... otherwise people will be buying xboxs when they could have bought an actual Nintendo product) but more like good marketing in the past as well as product satisfaction and such, people think games, they think Nintendo.

This is amazing, in a way. It implies to me that there are people, buyers, who see purchasing an Xbox or even a PS3 as - not an alternative to Nintendo, but as a different facet of the Nintendo experience.

It's wrong and it's fallacious but the whole thing is kind of incredible to me. That view of video games is very rich in its own way.



-ku- on 19 October 2009

Wow this topic has been really derailed



"Rainbird: Why don't Nintendo and Microsoft Copy the Sony Blog?

Bagenome:You can't shoot things on a blog, and babies can't read, so I don't think it would suit either one's target audience."

 

d21lewis said:
Honestly, do JRPG makers even realize how hard it is to save the world? That shit is impossible!

 

 

 

JUG on 19 October 2009

^Not really...

 

@alterego-x - sorry if I came across as elitist, I understand where you're coming from. I was just doing what I always try to do when I make threads: word the title in a way that'll get it the most hits .



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