Obviously it's all backfired and turned into a massive slagging match, as Sony's marketing gurus block words like "viral" and "marketing" from the comments fields and delete posts 24/7.
HOW WE LAUGH AT COMMENTS LIKE THESE!
All quotes left on Sony's latest fake marketing blog:
"As a gamer who is part of Sony's target audience I'm insulted not just by the integrity of this website, but that this reflects how intelligent Sony's marketing department thinks I am." "Second...Sony...PLEASE stop trying to be 'hip'. Please START focusing on product and games and opening a REAL dialogue with your users to make your gaming products better." "This fake cool vibe is as pathetic as an old uncle dancing to hip hop at a family wedding." "Please, while you're removing this comment and the 200 other negative comments above it (again), have the decency to do one honest thing in your life and inform sony of just how bad they screwed up by ordering this a_d. This is simply so insulting to anyone who truly loves games, the only reaction you will likely get is a decreased willingness to buy anything sony branded." "Just checking back again, I note that my post,saying the word advert(i)sing was banned, has been deleted." "Thank you for making me feel even better about not buying your products! And by the way, your incredibly horrible attempts at typing in a way you must assume most gamers type is pathetic. Way to go! You just insulted all the people who buy your products! Now back to Mario on my DS. :)" "Let's face it folks, PSPs are utterly worthless unless you hack the thing. Downgrade your firmware to 1.50 and install Devhook 0.5.1 and emulate Firmware 3.02 - swapping between the two rocks. And you have ISO support now." "Makes me ashamed of buying a product from such losers. if you guys wanted to sell psp's then why don't you get dame game on it, right now theres no great games on psp just a bunch of shovelware." "No one wants a psp, and Sony is going down in flames. I've awaited this day for many, many years now." "What The Hell! Not only is this fraud of a joke site a simple paid for advertisement for Sony, but it also is horrendously awful! You spent how much on this absolute tripe? Sony shareholders better wake up and start firing people left and right if they want to retain any value." "You want people to love your products and actually produce sites like this? Don't pay someone make a site... Just make a product good enough for people to love. The community and love will follow."
SEE THE DISASTER UNFOLD, LIVE!
And be sure to check out the awesome defence posts by site updaters 'charlie' and 'cousinpete' such as...
"we be just tryin to represent u guys... regular playas just tryin to get their gaem on, but now u gotta do all be dis then... u guys are noubs, pwnd!!" - 'charlie'
...and...
"You all is haters tymes 4. Dis is lee-git. Don't know why youse thinks this is a schill. Are site was registered through an external provider. We don't work for sony. And for all you dissin' my skillz I'm down for a one on one rap off or settling it street stylez if you feel me playa. Teh. I own a Nintendo DS and I love it. I would still like a PSP for shizzle. But the DS is just as solid." - 'cousinpete'
...over here at Sony's latest attempt at lying to people on the internet.
EMERGENCY BACK-UP:
When all the posts get deleted and the site gets closed because it's just too embarrassing to carry on having it on the internet, a recent back-up of the page will be located here. It's simply too good to let fade away.
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It came with the template. Maybe in 2014 we'll jump on board the Twitter train and put that in here. Or a radio. That'd be nice.
Oh, god, I am pissing myself. I particularly love the way the tone and the vernacular of the 'defense posts' shifts wildly through mis-spelled hip-hop bollocks, weird 1930s gangsterisms ("youse") and earnest, perfectly spellchecked sincerity ("the site was registered through an external source").
The defense posts probably had input from about six people in a marketing committee. I can see them now...."no, needs more ebonics!"..."what about some of that 'leet' business?"..."we have to stay on-message here, people!"
side-splitting stuff.
I may have added a few myself.
Genuinely hilarious.
I would've loved to sit in on the marketing meeting for this one. Hopefully it will get held up as a failure of "viral marketing": rule one, don't be fake or the bloggers will eat you alive.
The rest of it is as much of a trainwreck as it looks, though.
http://www.avexband.com/news.html
Dat website reminds me a bit of gamezville mate
Good work on the backup.
i said "i hope ken and the rest of sony japan commit Seppuku for this."
"Don't know why youse thinks this is a schill. Are site was registered through an external provider"
Instead of "External provider" I would have used the term "indipendant provider" 'cause by wording it as 'external provider' it suggests that the writer thinks of non sony providers as external to their position, not independant to sony's position, thus sugesting that perhapse that sentance is being written by someone who is currently internal to sony. A subtle slip there?
"Don't know why youse thinks this is a schill. Are site was registered through an external provider"
Instead of "External provider" I would have used the term "indipendant provider" 'cause by wording it as 'external provider' it suggests that the writer thinks of non sony providers as external to their position, not independant to sony's position, thus sugesting that perhapse that sentance is being written by someone who is currently internal to sony. A subtle slip there?
They've even banned the word "Lik-Sang"
(though it technially isn't a word I know) but thats low.
sweet fucking christ. Westwood in da house!!
A truly hilarious site. Still, won't stop me from getting a PS3 and a PSP, the Formula 1 link-up sounds like the ultimate killer-app.
It would be very interesting if it turned out that Zipatoni were hired by Nintendo and not Sony.
They've deleted the YouTube videos, and the backup isn't working...
Sony Computer Entertainment America"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
[Falls off chair]
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
It's stuff like this that makes me check UK:R every day - the best bullshit detector on the internet.
Cutlack? Would.
"If you're ever in need of someone that can provide you with insight on how to cross-over into a demographic you know NOTHING about please feel free to look me up as a consultant. You see, i was raised around the people you lock your car doors when you see approaching, yet you reach out to them because of their affinity for impulse purchases and irresponsible spending habits"
http://pspandme.ie/
Getting local "artists" to show their idea of psp "art"
Good lord, will it ever end?
Wrong on both counts...
Thanks 'Tony Sticks' (aka Bassam Jarad) for your informative personal account of your BMW purchase.
http://pspandme.ie/"
Actually, this is about a million times more respectable. If this was thier American advertising method, unlike that stupid blog, they'd still have some respect left.
Personally I think SCEI in Japan should just cut off the life support on thier American and European branches.
If you think sony has disregard for their customers, the you can only regard microsoft as the commercial equivalent of Hitler and the 3rd Reich.