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Sony is Like Saddam Hussein

December 31st 2006 15:37
Saddam Demonstrating his WMD to the world
'My WMD is both big and expensive
It’s all over the place, Sony stuffed up with the Playstation 3 here Sony stuffed up with the Playstation 3 there, naturally everything is filled with hate. But why? Nintendo stuffed up, so did Microsoft, Nintendo released a console with very old graphical horsepower for an inflated price to make profits per console sold, Microsoft rushed their console out and now are planning on releasing improved Xbox 360 units among other things.


Truth is Nintendo and Microsoft have stuffed up a bit too, but why don’t we try to eat at their throats? Because Sony deserves it. Sony is arrogant, obnoxious self righteous, Sony is Saddam Hussein, completely oblivious to the world around him thinking he’s still the dictator of an oppressed people despite failing, continually failing and falling into obscure history.

What is different between Sony and the competition? The difference is that Sony is arrogant, uptight self righteous.

Clear as day, from the E3 presentation where between Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony only Sony started the conference with an extremely long monologue of how great they are (namely the Playstation 2) and how they will continue being so great. Both Nintendo and Microsoft started humbly and made their points clear, they were here for the games.


Saddam demonstrating how a PSP will ignitet he end of the world via his ps3
'With this Remote I shall Trigger the WMD!
Then comes Sony with their wonderful PR quotes, "rumble was last generation, movement is this generation" in reference to the lack of rumble in SIXAXIS, this despite gamers demanding rumble and Hideo Kojima himself stating that he missed rumble.

Like it wasn’t bad enough for the Playstation 3 to cost $600 Ken Kutaragi had the nerves to say the Playstation 3 was ‘too cheap’, this on top of another statement made by another Sony executive saying that the $500 Xbox 360 and $250 Wii are ‘too expensive’.

Then comes the website ‘alliwantforxmasisapsp.com’ which ran deep into the heart of the gaming community who took offence that Sony considered them that dumb to fall for such a cheap marketing trick.

If all this isn’t enough Sony still has the nerves to take direct pot shots at their (supposedly non-existent) competitors, claiming the Nintendo Wii to be a novelty and the Xbox 360 being more of an Xbox 1.5.

Believe me I haven’t even begun to scratch the surface here, Sony has been overwhelmingly arrogant as of late and it has started backfiring.

People don’t forgive the Playstation 3’s shortcomings anymore, they forgive the loud Xbox 360 and the outdated graphics of the Wii but they don’t forgive the expensive Playstation 3, people forgave the Xbox 360 for its somewhat lacklustre launch line up but they aren’t forgiving the Playstation 3 for it.

Kaz Hirai after getting the death sentence, seconds from hanging
Hang ten dude
People forgive Nintendo for porting over a last generation game with tacked on controls but they don’t forgive the Playstation 3’s shoddy graphics in games like ‘Gundam: Crossfire’.

There are a lot more examples, but these should be enough.

Not surprisingly after Sony remains amazingly ignorant to what’s going on around, from getting annoyed at being asked difficult to answer questions to not doing anything about failing interest in the Playstation 3 and assuming it will all fall into place simply because they are selling the Playstation 3.

Sony won’t ever come out of this stupid arrogance, like Saddam, they’ll be standing there with the rope around their necks and they won’t know how badly beaten they are until the floor beneath them drops. Only it will be too late by then.
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Sony Cops a Whopper

December 14th 2006 06:50
Sony, particularly SCE has a habit of inane advertising that makes no sense. From crazy nonsensical TV advertisements for the Playstation 3 to potentially racist billboard ads (I don’t agree, seems to be too much reading *into* here), Sony has it all.

So what is the latest effort? Well Sony desperate to sell the failing PSP inconspicuously launched alliwantforxmasisapsp.com. Oh bravo Sony! That's about as obvious as a rhino in a china shop! Talk about viral marketing, you bring it to new lows.

So obvious is the fact it was fake NOT ONE PERSON BOUGHT INTO IT! You made the FrontPage on Digg.com with that wonderful site of yours where everyone figured it out just as well.

So obvious in fact, that you guys admitted to the whole scam, the whole thing, I quote from your website:

“Busted. Nailed. Snagged. As many of you have figured out (maybe our speech was a little too funky fresh???), Peter isn't a real hip-hop maven and this site was actually developed by Sony. Guess we were trying to be just a little too clever. From this point forward, we will just stick to making cool products, and use this site to give you nothing but the facts on the PSP.

Sony Computer Entertainment America”

So that's the deal today? Yesterday it was ‘geewiz, I’m some 14y/o who wants to get his best mate a PSP for Christmas’. Good job.

It was also terribly executed, I mean for crying out loud, IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW ALREADY the idea of ‘pwn!!1!’ (notice the ‘1’) is just a joke of newbie like behaviour on the net, it has never actually happened because someone took their finger off the shift key, kudo’s to the ‘teh’’s instead of ‘the’’s though, very well done.

Soooo... what’s next? Using actual viruses in your viral marketing strategies?
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The true Lord of ‘Lord of the Rings’

September 16th 2006 03:57
I find it interesting that mainstream Hollywood movies are losing the big bucks rather quickly. It probably has a lot to do with the fact it has hit a creative vacuum. We were given such great movies of late, some of the best in history, from Star Wars Episode 3 all the way down to Pirates of the Caribbean and everything in between (The Incredibles, Batman and others, I am looking at you). Don’t get me wrong, they are still coming, but it’s all few and far in between.

Superman
Not quite so Super are we?
Now we are being given crap, absolute crap, the best they could do was ‘Superman Returns’, and that was… well not a very good movie (apparently, I haven’t seen it yet). George Lucas himself stated that ‘Mission Impossible 3’ was boring after it reached the top of the box offices around the world. He was right though, on the audiences behalf, as it appears all that box office success centered around the hype behind it as ‘Mission Impossible 3’ lost a lot of its ground come the second week.

Fear not though, it appears you, the humble audience, is simply looking for alternative areas to get your entertainment from… and the alternative area is? Videogames of course!

Metal Gear Solid, Nes and PS3
Metal Gear Solid 4 (Main) and Metal Gear (Top right)
While videogames are continuing to make bigger and bigger bucks movies are slipping and slipping. Looking at both media it’s not hard to understand why videogame profits are rocketing. Back during the early days of gaming there was hardly any detail on screen, it was a two dimensional image, a two dimensional cartoony image that the player controlled in a limited fashion carrying out a menial task, sometimes with absolutely no explanation. But that was back then, and how times have changed.

Nowadays games are being judged for their narrative structures, their art directions among other things. These elements are helping these games find mass appeal. This is in large part due to the technological enhancements, now the game world is in full 3D and there is enough grunt in modern technology to push some really good art direction.

Legend of Zelda
Action sequences from Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess (Main) and Legend of Zelda (top right)
Action sequences in videogames are now more… shall we say actiony? Even more so than some, heck, most movies. It sure has come a long way, If you compare for instance the original version of “Legend of Zelda” with the upcoming “Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess”, tell me how much cooler is the new one? “Legend of Zelda” of the videogame world is the equivalent of “Lord of the Rings” of the movie world, except it is far cheaper to make a game than a movie by a long shot. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess will also last longer (reportedly Twilight Princess has a gameplay time of 100 hours) and also gives you far more freedom to explore. Imagine “Middle Earth” and wherever you want to go in Middle Earth you can go to, that is what “Twilight Princess” is all about.

Will videogames replace movies completely? I doubt it. But will videogames eventually become the entertainment medium of choice for the masses? Well if you asked me that say a few years ago I would have laughed in your face. But now that some of the big players are expanding their markets, Nintendo being the biggest, I think it very well might. With the success of the Nintendo DS in every target audience from five year old girls to fifty year old codgers, the Nintendo DS has games to suit everyone and has proven that there is indeed a market for everyone in the world of videogames.
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