businessweek.com — This isn't a good week for Sony. Following Time's declaration of the PS3 being a failure, Sony was discovered to be behind the site "alliwantforxmasisapsp.com" and its "funky fresh" rhetoric. Critics say the site insults their intelligence and takes marketing to a new low on many different levels.
Dec 19, 2006 View in Crawl 4
brstilsonDec 19, 2006
In other news, Sony has changed their company song to the Benny Hill theme.
stonedonkeyDec 19, 2006
"I would be somewhat willing to believe that the original idea pitched by Sony was to create a kind of satire of young internet culture, and that Zipatoni went ahead and gave it a more stealthy approach."Nah, Sony would definitely have to sign off on it before it went live. That's SOP.
maynardjkDec 19, 2006
@jacksons98"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"-Thomas Hesse, President of Sony BMG's global digital business divisionThat is why.
sv650touringDec 19, 2006
This made me smile. Alliwantforxmasisapsp.com made me cringe in embarrassment for the out-of-touch marketing dweebs. If it had been real it would have sent me on a killing spree. I shudder to think that douchebaggery on that scale could exist in the real world...
meznakDec 19, 2006
This is more of a discussion of Sony as a company, not the console itself.-- former sony fanboy
tapewormzDec 20, 2006
I couldn't find a statement anywhere on Time's site saying that they declaired the PS3 a failure. Just that it's not meeting demand, or that it's too expensive, or that it's alot of hype. None of those articles state that they have declaired the product a failure.Now, I'm not a fanboy and I'll never get a PS3, nor have I ever purchased a PS1 or PS2. I haven't even played any games on them ever...but I still can't find this article anywhere.
dlggDec 20, 2006
"(maybe our speech was a little too funky fresh???)"That got me laughing.