Sony launches "largest ever" hardware ad campaign

[JAGUAR1977]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=30156

All this talk af A2's, but Sony could be on the verge of selling millions of PS3's this coming week.

[JTK]

Originally Posted by JAGUAR1977

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=30156

All this talk af A2's, but Sony could be on the verge of selling millions of PS3's this coming week.

That would be nice. It's high time the PS3 starts getting "lit on fire", so to speak.

[MatrixS2000]

Originally Posted by JAGUAR1977

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=30156

Sony could be on the verge of selling millions of PS3's this coming week.

Nice find!

[Pete2s]

Does anyone else think it'd be better to drop standalone blu ray players price and mass advertise them?

I doubt "millions" will be sold in a week. The PS3, despite being new, still sells the worst out of all 3 consoles, with only hundreds of thousands in a MONTH.

[thrlride]

Originally Posted by Pete2s

Does anyone else think it'd be better to drop standalone blu ray players price and mass advertise them?

I doubt "millions" will be sold in a week. The PS3, despite being new, still sells the worst out of all 3 consoles, with only hundreds of thousands in a MONTH.

I think in the end you would sell more discs that way to get the studios support but they do have to get the PS3 out there too.

[JAGUAR1977]

It time we realised these desperate, knee jerk, moves from HD-DVD are to counter much bigger, much more effective, long term plans from the BDA and Blu-ray supporting companies.

50k A2 sales, hell make it 100k, they're going to be a blip on the radar compared to the 40GB PS3, not to mention the new 1.1 Panasonic, and likely cheaper 1.0 players.

[blujacket]

I saw a 40g PS3 commercial during Southpark last night.

[MatrixS2000]

Originally Posted by Pete2s

Does anyone else think it'd be better to drop standalone blu ray players price and mass advertise them?

I doubt "millions" will be sold in a week. The PS3, despite being new, still sells the worst out of all 3 consoles, with only hundreds of thousands in a MONTH.

I don't think anyone believes millions will sell in a week, but I also think you misunderstood the post.

It doesn't mean sell million IN A WEEK, but that the campaign launched THIS WEEK could help sell millions over an unspecified period of time.

[br85]

Yeah the 40Gb version has been in Australia for a few weeks now, and sales have gone through the roof! Although here, we are talking about a $300 price cut from $999 to $699. Still too much given that the Australian dollar is buying over 92 UC cents now, but, nevertheless, the ps3 is REALLY picking up pace here.

[Seretur]

I still don't think the American consumer is as uninformed or as desperate for dirt-cheap HD as the derogatory "J6P" moniker assumes.

The choice is apparently clear -- $199 for a HD DVD player (that's not even full HD, but let's not go there, even), or $399 for a PS3.

The HD DVD will play, what, one quarter of the recent big Hollywood hits. The PS3 will play the remaining three quarters. It'll also be the technologically most advanced game console and home entertainment center, a device that will enable you to have all of your bases covered for at least half a decade, if not longer.

This is why I'm certain the new PS3 will by itself be able to nullify the onslaught of cheapo HD DVD players. And I'm pretty certain we'll be seeing the BDA respond to them on the standalone side too, with new models by Funai and suchlike, and a price reduction of the Profile 1.0 models.

[w_tanoto]

if they are clever, a Final Fantast VII remake will blow everything away

[Kirsty_Mc]

Just a quick thought,

Given that the PS3 posesses a powerful processor, powerful graphics, HDD, USB, Bluetooth, Networking and runs on Linux (so I believe)... is this possibly why MS is so worried.

I mean... how long could it be that shortly you could replace a PC with one... sort of Sony's trojan horse under the TV to displace Microsoft. Surely if a Game will run on it, then so could word processing, spreadsheets etc...

How about it Sony... Sony Office for PS3. I mean it couldn't run worse than anything Microfoft comes up with. A few years down the line (souped up even further) it could be the Sony Mediastation doing everything.

[thrlride]

Originally Posted by Kirsty_Mc

Just a quick thought,

Given that the PS3 posesses a powerful processor, powerful graphics, HDD, USB, Bluetooth, Networking and runs on Linux (so I believe)... is this possibly why MS is so worried.

I mean... how long could it be that shortly you could replace a PC with one... sort of Sony's trojan horse under the TV to displace Microsoft. Surely if a Game will run on it, then so could word processing, spreadsheets etc...

How about it Sony... Sony Office for PS3. I mean it couldn't run worse than anything Microfoft comes up with. A few years down the line (souped up even further) it could be the Sony Mediastation doing everything.

anything is possible but I can't imagine going to work, sitting in my office and booting up a ps3 to read email.

[MatrixS2000]

Originally Posted by Kirsty_Mc

Just a quick thought,

Given that the PS3 posesses a powerful processor, powerful graphics, HDD, USB, Bluetooth, Networking and runs on Linux (so I believe)... is this possibly why MS is so worried.

I mean... how long could it be that shortly you could replace a PC with one... sort of Sony's trojan horse under the TV to displace Microsoft. Surely if a Game will run on it, then so could word processing, spreadsheets etc...

How about it Sony... Sony Office for PS3. I mean it couldn't run worse than anything Microfoft comes up with. A few years down the line (souped up even further) it could be the Sony Mediastation doing everything.

Well since the PS3 can run linux....

[br85]

Originally Posted by Kirsty_Mc

Just a quick thought,

Given that the PS3 posesses a powerful processor, powerful graphics, HDD, USB, Bluetooth, Networking and runs on Linux (so I believe)... is this possibly why MS is so worried.

I mean... how long could it be that shortly you could replace a PC with one... sort of Sony's trojan horse under the TV to displace Microsoft. Surely if a Game will run on it, then so could word processing, spreadsheets etc...

How about it Sony... Sony Office for PS3. I mean it couldn't run worse than anything Microfoft comes up with. A few years down the line (souped up even further) it could be the Sony Mediastation doing everything.

Mythinks a great idea would be for sony and apple work together to achieve some microsoft Thwomping. Ah what a great day that would be

[Blu Titan]

Great find

[buckshot]

Originally Posted by blujacket

I saw a 40g PS3 commercial during Southpark last night.

I saw that too. very ninjadverstising. all it said was ''now $399''. I had to rewind it and watch it again.

[JAGUAR1977]

Isn't it funny how the online world works.

HD-DVD's 50k/100k firesale of A2's generates hysteria on niche HD forums, while this MASSIVE, mainstream, ad campaign, that will shift millions of Blu-ray capable PS3's this Q4, almost slips by in a whimper.

[Kirsty_Mc]

Originally Posted by thrlride

anything is possible but I can't imagine going to work, sitting in my office and booting up a ps3 to read email.

Indeed, but when the PC was launched with simple word processing could we imagine then what we are doing now with a PC. It's the architecture and market penetration I'm thinking of. If you went into the office, you wouldn't be booting up a PS3, it would be something more sober looking... maybe called a Workstation 4 optimized for that environment.

[thrlride]

Originally Posted by BlueNeon

The date of the article is 1/11/2007

Could that be european date format? Today is 11/1