"Our industry is filled with poor choices and nights a lot of us will never remember, but when marketing teams came up with these ideas not only did an entire industry wonder, “WTF?” but they also made it possible that we never forget they happened.
Here are some of the most controversial, confusing, and downright stupid marketing strategies over the last two console generations." - David Wales
"The Spain-based indie games publisher Firenut Games and Granada-based (Spain) indie games developer Trigger the Monster, today announced with great joy and thrill that their dark fantasy adventure/management game “Search of Light” (AKA SOL), is now available for PC (via Steam) and consoles (PS5, PS4, and the Nintendo Switch)." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Game Rant Writes "Balancing brutality and comfort is tough for any game, let alone a Soulslike, but Another Crab’s Treasure proves capable of supporting both."
Feral Cat Den return with Nirvana Noir, a sequel to Genesis Noir centering around two different universes, and it truly feels like a bigger bang.
I am genuinely shocked by the PSP as!!!!! Bad Move SONY I hope someone was fired and made wear a Sandwich boards saying "I am a Racist"!
If anyone knows what the heck the baby ad was about, I would love to know
Worst marketing strategy of the 21st century:
Creating a mediocre console with accessories that only a small percentage of the market actually is interested in with a high price-tag for which you've presented some of the absolutely most disliked policies in the history of electronic entertainment around and that you're publicly admitting that you're scrambling to improve upon with a small increase in clock-rates and flat-out lies left and right before a launch-date that you're pushing forward to try and plug the holes in the sinking ship that you boastingly designed with help of "the greatest minds in the business" by going on the offensive against both your ex fans, the ever-important developers and the console-producing company that did all the things right that you did wrong, thus losing even more respect for every step you take.