PSP ads draw public ire

[wraggster]

Source - Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com/2005/12/28/psp-ads-draw-public-ire/)

Sony's newest PSP advertising campaign is upsetting several cities along with some art purists. The new campaign uses tagging or graffiti in seven urban areas of large metropolitan cities including New York and San Fransisco. The graffiti makes no reference to Sony asking the question is this vandalism or art?

One Philadelphia resident had the following to say: "It's not mural art. This is someone trying to sell a product. This is commercialism. You have a multi-conglomerate operation coming into the city and breaking our laws."

Let's get one thing straight; graffiti can't be faked. Sony is obviously trying to play the urban cool card, but that's something that just doesn't work when forced. Looks like the company may have overstepped its bounds on this one.

[sti3]

The TV ads with the "black"-sounding squirrels in the US are horrible. Offensive, even.

[Greenskull]

The squirrel one was funny! Hilarious even!

[Vancougar]

Don't forget the mexican sounding dustballs that crave portable carpet. Y'know amidst this controversy over whether Sony scarred peoples property with their corny ass ads; you think they'd have the sense to lie low, pretend they had nothing to do with it and not broadcast that same crappy art style in their commercials. Message to Sony: fire your idea guy and get rid of that scene killing ad agency.

[zackforbing]

from what I'd heard, Sony was paying the places that were tagged. this is a travesty, though. Sony should have foreseen the outrage, it's like going into places like the Louvre and hanging framed Sony ads next to Picassos.

[Illegal Machine]

Let's not forget the BLATANT racist overtones that accompany these ads...



this is precicely why I have NO reservations over playing illegaly obtained isos on UMDEMU..


I mean how much respect can I have for a bunch of greedy racist, vandals?

[Hidavi]

Let's not forget the BLATANT racist overtones that accompany these ads...



this is precicely why I have NO reservations over playing illegaly obtained isos on UMDEMU..


I mean how much respect can I have for a bunch of greedy racist, vandals?

Hum, something to consider.

I'm amazed the media and local Black groups let that slide.

As for the graffiti: so?

If it looks cool and its not vandalism, I OK it.

[swatx]

They didnt they try this first during the Apprentice back in 2004 when the teams were given the task of desiging a billboard sort of add for Sony's Gran turisimo and one of the team had this graffiti sort of idea and sony approved it.

well anyway i saw the billboards in the adds and the art itself looks cool tho

[Hidavi]

these crazy adults take some things way too seriously. its why they're so sickly.

[Illegal Machine]

fact is, they're stupid ads...


I mean Sony would sell millions of units if they advertised nesterJ once on one station at 5 am.

if sony is so desperate to make sales, then why be stupid and lock out the coolest features?

[Hidavi]

fact is, they're stupid ads...


I mean Sony would sell millions of units if they advertised nesterJ once on one station at 5 am.

if sony is so desperate to make sales, then why be stupid and lock out the coolest features?

How are they stupid? People are strange...

That nesterJ thing is wayyyyyyy over exxagerated. Do you know how many people don't give a rat crap about playing NES games on PSP (or on anything for that matter)?

They lock out "the coolest feature" for the same reason they have copy-protection on DVDs. TO KEEP PIRATING FROM KILLING THE PSP THE WAY IT DID THE DREAMCAST. Also, they want to make sure people don't brick their PSPs and then waste Sony money on warranty request and service for it.

[Illegal Machine]

I really don't care if piracy kills it,

and the dreamcast died because it was competing with the playstation, and had like 3 good games out for it.



frankly having a snes, and a nes, AND a genesis, AND a turbografix 16 AND an atari 2600 all in 1 is pretty awesome. Why even buy any gameboy related anything when you can do this? thats the first thing.

secondly, There were millions of PSPs sold this year, and probably only a few hundred thousand homebrew users, which may seem like a lot, BUT. consider that 600,000 out of 6 million is only 10%

so who the hell cares if a measly 10% of users are cracking the program and sending the units back over and over. they deserve it 100% because they were greedy, beyond need to profit, and had an oppertunity to make something goo deven better and didnt.


honestly Im reaping all the benefits with only MINOR losses (like not being able to play GTA awwww) and I really feel like for once, Im getting my full dollars worth out of a sony product.

[iniquitous_beast]

I remember seeing on the news a few days ago that these ads have started appearing in Philadelphia. There was no consent from the building owners and the locals were outraged. They stated plans to paint over the graffiti as soon as possible.
Personally, I think that the whole graffiti-ad idea is idiotic. It is not art, and the images are too standardized. They look like they were stenciled onto those walls.
This is a sign of Sony's power getting to its collective head. When a company blatantly disregards the law in order to force its ugly ads on an unwilling public, something is seriously wrong. I hope that the government hits them hard; otherwise it won't be long until more companies start using the same destructive strategies to push their products on us.

[Cap'n 1time]

I think they are stupid ads. I also think alot of people would rather play nes games... the only type of person that would say it isnt interesting is probably too young to understand why previous generation games are so cool. Ironically it is this reason why the psp's commercial selection of games totally sucks.

Back then the systems were capable of flashy graphics, they were all about good gameplay. now you see all of this go down the shitter with mediocre next gen games.

Interesting: NINTENDO= lots of good games (hardly any support from the west and europe) SONY= 1:100000 chance of a good game (evil empire) MS= some great 1st party games but mostly ports of ps2 games (no support from the east, evil empire).

If its a good honest console company, you want look into nintendo. If you want a good game producer look at Capcom, Konami, decreasingly Square Enix, MS Games (Bungie), and of course Nintendo... and my friend wants to add Blizzard, and Epic.... which arnt exactly console game producers but did some great work for the PC.

[Raekwik11]

Graffiti is an art! It is just another art form like Diego Rivera who was a mural painter.
I don't see why people discourage it. That's just like saying that some of the work of Pablo Picasso was just a piece of crap that a child can make (It is sort of true though his paintings were childlike). But the fact still remains that sony didn't have the owner's consent to place that ad there.

[Hidavi]

I think they are stupid ads. I also think alot of people would rather play nes games... the only type of person that would say it isnt interesting is probably too young to understand why previous generation games are so cool. Ironically it is this reason why the psp's commercial selection of games totally sucks.

Back then the systems were capable of flashy graphics, they were all about good gameplay. now you see all of this go down the shitter with mediocre next gen games.

Interesting: NINTENDO= lots of good games (hardly any support from the west and europe) SONY= 1:100000 chance of a good game (evil empire) MS= some great 1st party games but mostly ports of ps2 games (no support from the east, evil empire).

If its a good honest console company, you want look into nintendo. If you want a good game producer look at Capcom, Konami, decreasingly Square Enix, MS Games (Bungie), and of course Nintendo... and my friend wants to add Blizzard, and Epic.... which arnt exactly console game producers but did some great work for the PC.

Graffit is art. Nuff said. Its art just the way DaVinci did art and just the way you doodle in your notebook as well. Its creative. Art is the conscious use of creativity and skill. Thats all there is to it.

If a lot of people would rather play NES games as opposed to PSP games, they can do that on any console. I never said it wasn't interesting. And I owned the Atari 5200, NES and SNES. I also had the N64, Dreamcast, Playstation. I had hours of fun playing them, but I've moved on. The times are new, my age is new and so are my tastes. Realize also that not everyone thinks that the PSP game library sucks. If that was even absolutely true, the PSP wouldn't be expected to have sold 10 million units by 12AM tonight and it definitely wouldn't have sold the currently known figure of 6 million units.

Oh, and smart guy, back then the Atari 2600 did have flasy graphics. Almost every system was considered to have flashy graphics at some point or another.

I'm sorry old timer if you aren't satisfied with today's games. :( But most of us are ;)

Just stop sucking Nintendo please. We all know they are a good console producer, but they aren't the only ones. :rolleyes:

[r00t]

Graffiti ftw. Sony, sorry but to the bin. OH yea, like my rap? ;D

[Nono-O]

The squirrel one was funny! Hilarious even!