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

      • @[email protected]English
        7•5 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.

  • @set_secretEnglish
    24•5 months ago

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

    • @burlimanEnglish
      17•5 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•5 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.

  • YaksDCEnglish
    15•5 months ago

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

      • @solonerEnglish
        10•5 months ago

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

        • body_by_makeEnglish
          4•5 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

  • stevedidWHATEnglish
    10•5 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!

      • tiredofsametab
        2•5 months ago

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

    • @pelerinliEnglish
      5•5 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.

  • @[email protected]English
    8•5 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

    • @FredselfishEnglish
      5•5 months ago

      WTF that horrible way to advertise that game.

      • @solonerEnglish
        4•5 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]English
        3•5 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…

    • @[email protected]English
      1•5 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.