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This was apparently real, from a flyer at an event in 1996.

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[-] simple@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

The PlayStation 3 baby commercial was also something else. Playstation has had some real weird marketing moments.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

I'm hoping I can make it to 2078 for the spherical PS9

[-] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

What in the what

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

If we're talking about it then it woeked

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

I get where you're coming from, but ads don't just want people talking, they want to turn people into buyers.

After the success of the PS2, virtually their entire market knew about the PS3. But even with those weird ads and their previous massive success with the PS2, the PS3 was selling terribly poorly around the time of the baby ad, IIRC.

[-] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 4 points 10 months ago

That's just creepy lol

[-] set_secret@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

to be fair more powerful than completly non-existant isn't really that impressive.

[-] burliman@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Unless they mean the idea of God that has driven the religious movements throughout all of human history. Now that is a real god.

[-] set_secret@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
[-] Tremble@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

Reminds me of John Lennon who said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus…

There were protests and record burnings and they were banned on many radio stations and they stopped touring, some say because of the backlash….

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_popular_than_Jesus#:~:text=%22More%20popular%20than%20Jesus%22%20is,be%20outlasted%20by%20rock%20music.

[-] zaplachi@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

In 1980, he was murdered by a Christian fan of the Beatles, Mark David Chapman, who later cited Lennon's quote as one of his possible motives in the killing.

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[-] YaksDC@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

That's really not saying much, I would rather have a console with at least a little power.

[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

It goes pretty hard, but it's no "John Romero's about to make you his bitch." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana#/media/File:Daikatana_infamous_advertisement.jpg

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 10 months ago

If the PS1 is more powerful than God, then what is the PS5? 😮

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 23 points 10 months ago

More powerful than "God 5"

[-] soloner@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

If we assume God is God 0, then power(PS(x)) > power(God x - 1)

[-] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

Why would you make that assumption though? They're clearly index 1 people over at Sony, considering the next PlayStation to release was the PS2

[-] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If they even had a fraction of the knowledge about today’s games they’d shit themselves lmao.

Just wait until these fancy AI content generators are integrated by AAA companies and aren’t just mods.

🤩 stay positive y’all, happy new year!

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 10 months ago

The other day someone posted an NES cover and it straight up said "ultra realistic computer generated graphics" on it. 🤣

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

At the time, the comparison was probably against Atari 2600 and other early systems

[-] pelerinli@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Open world RPG's like Bannerlord or Skyrim will be "real" alternative reality. Just think, today you can chit-chat in Bannerlord with general NPC. Tomorrow you can get radiant quest from giver by talking to Jarls. In future you can find secret quests and spell-check your way around in Fallout.

[-] Dimok@reddthat.com 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I'm not sure who kicked it off but the Nintendo, Sega wars in the 80s kind of started with the quirky 'edgy' crap and that carried over into the PS/Xbox era. The Nintendo power mags had some seriously nonsense ads and the tv commercials kind of ran the gambit. A lot of 'we're gamers, parents just wouldn't understand' type ads. Here's one that even teen me was like 'wtf?' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-qBkWerZDg

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

WTF that horrible way to advertise that game.

[-] soloner@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure if the mental/high person is meant to represent Link or the player... Which one is worse?

[-] Dimok@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago

The only thing I can think, is it was marketed to those 'cool' parents. "Like, wow man! My kid needs this edgy game!" Even that's a stretch..

[-] newtraditionalists@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

I'm so glad this is the one you linked. Such an icon of a commercial lol

[-] beardown@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

This style is drastically better than anything today.

At least it's an ethos

[-] IggyTheSmidge@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Anyone remember this XBox ad?

https://youtu.be/Hu_0GdXW904

Apparently it was banned, but I remember seeing it fairly regularly so it must've been around for a while before that happened...

[-] Dimok@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

Lol yes..yes I do! I didn't know it was banned because it was played quite a bit on whatever I used to watch. Man I want to say G4 but I'm not sure the time lines work out.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 2 points 10 months ago

Sure. Ever seen god being powerful?

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