Holla at PSP

I love the pure hate posts for Sony no matter what they do..

It's on par with all the people that cry about Microsoft..

wahh.

This may clinch it, I think I wanna sell my PSP now...

This might be more successful if it didn't suck so horribly.

I don't know much about consoles, but I hear that the PSP is a great piece of hardware with no games to play on it. Why doesn't Sony just do something about that?

sorry sony, but i'm getting a DS instead

The Playstation-line marketing team needs to be eviscerated, shot, burned and scattered to the four winds. I don't think I've ever had a marketing campaign so thoroughly discourage me from caring about the products they're pushing.

Marketers are the scum of the earth, right there with lawyers and politicians. True story.

A few years back, I think it was either Apple of IBM, had stenciled some designs on sidewalks around the city. (Chicago) Needless to say, the Mayor got pissed and made them remove it all, lol.

Looks like their marketing worked. People all over the place are talking about this.

Good or bad, their attempt at viral has definitely gotten them plenty of attention.

I really do wish they'd just promote the features of the system and show a shit ton of gameplay. It's a very impressive handheld with an awesome screen that puts the DS to shame, but in typical Sony fashion, they asshole it all up by being Sony, with moves such as calling DS owners a bunch of children, and then producing shit like this.

Actually, I got to thinking about this - they're trying very desperately to appeal to the hip crowd that, for some reason, Microsoft locked onto with Xbox.

Xbox has wound up being the console with the hip 18-24 year olds. It got there by tying in with MTV, Sprite and Snoop Dogg every time there was some sort of ESPN2 X-Games Extreme Snowboarding thing to sponsor. It wound up being the "hip" console.

Now Sony is trying desperately to make the PSP the "hip" handheld. The one way they might be able to finagle a small hold on this would be if they could parlay the perception that Nintendo is the handheld for kiddie games. But ironically, the DS is holding on to the top spot for the same reason the PS2 had 70% of the sixth generation market - hip or not it had all the good games. DS could be hot pink (actually, it is pink in some territories) and it will still win since it has the good games.

Sony either needs to get a LOT of better games on the PSP, games that play to the strengths of a handheld and are not trying to be PS2 games, or just give up on it. If they're not careful they'll never cement a lead with the PS3 like they did with PS2.

oh my god. that was so painful, i have to go put myself out of my misery.

psp rap. word! nahmsayin?

why do they even need to market this. the board layout on psp is so superior that the thing should sell itself

Sony's marketing department really needs a re-adjustment. "In yo face" ads just aren't effective like they used to be back in the 90s. I feel many people can see through the typical "OMG, This is soo cool" ad campaign, and something deeper needs to be presented.
That being said I think that video is really funny, although I wouldn't really say it would improve my opinion of the PSP itself.

Wow, if there was ever a big buzzing neon sign that said "We're not selling PSPs for shit please help" this was it.

You know how Pepsi ads focus on how much better they are than Coke? What do Coke ads have? CGI polar bears and the Coca-Cola logo. When you're on top you don't acknowledge your competition, you don't try desperate tactics to sell, and you don't even hint that there's a problem.

The rap video above made me pine for the slick production values of the Insane Clown Posse

Do whatever you want online, its better than the obnoxous PS3 commercials on TV. What is that shit supposed to mean anyway, a crying evil baby doll?

Ads are getting weirder and weirder these days.

yeah, not to take any embarrassment away from Sony but you can bet that most marketing companies employ these techniques and Sony's agency a) came up with a really stupid idea, and b) got caught.

Crap like this and the Rolling Rock "If you were offended by our Beer Ape..." stuff is pretty damn tiring at this point.

I mean, it's the most depressing that, like spam, it doesn't die off because there are actually idiots out there who fall for it, but the whole deal is just depressing and annoying.

It's odd, but in the effort to push both the technological and marketing envelopes, Sony just ends up pissing everybody off.