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Will Sony Be Torn Apart by Congressmen For New Ad Campaign?

Siliconera is reporting that they have one of Sony's new ad campaign's for the PS4. If this is legit, Sony may have chosen to go down a very controversial root begging for a ton of hate from those of the 'Video game violence is ruining our children' persuasion.

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Majin-vegeta4004d ago

Congress??Lol that's a clown circus in there.

-"Greatness Awaits"-

SilentNegotiator4004d ago (Edited 4004d ago )

Aren't we jumping the gun deciding that congress will be all over an ad that we don't even know to be real?

fr0sty4003d ago

Let's not forget that "getting away with murder" is an idiom that isn't always used in the literal context of actually getting away with killing someone.

nveenio4003d ago

I don't think it's real. There's way too much dialog.

aCasualGamer4003d ago

Dunno, most politicians are nothing but hypocritical capitalist vultures. This doesn't surprise one bit.

Don't understand why politicians have so much power, they do nothing but take money from the people and they love to start unnecessary wars.

showtimefolks4004d ago

i sure hope so, congress and fox news needs to jump on sony and advertise the hell out of them for free lol

imagine if ps4's ad campaign is on national media alert, how much of national advertisement and awareness will sony be getting for free

so yeh stir up the pot lets start something lol

Gh05t4004d ago

If your looking for free advertising why would you want Fox news? Why not every other network so at least it goes out to the majority not the small minority that watch FOX.

As if violence in video games is a conservative platform anyways. I see more Democrats from California and Washington complain more than anyone. (Not that repubs don't because they do just saying majority of this issue is brought up from Democrats.)

Mrmagnumman3574004d ago

Republicans want to take our games and movies, dems want to take our guns. I think they forgot they were supposed to be protecting our rights!

showtimefolks4003d ago

GH05t

Because CNN is a bit smart but fox will run with any story that's why i said fox

knifefight4004d ago

How does it keep up with the news like that?
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

:D

DeadlyFire4003d ago

Get rid of Opinion piece articles. This is a news site. Rumors are fine. Opinions are not always valued. Should be optional.....

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xploz1on4004d ago

Hahaha, true that Veggie! ;)

SoapShoes4004d ago (Edited 4004d ago )

Any publicity is good publicity. haha well not ALWAYS true but it could get them more time in the news and more people aware.

However I doubt it will from the sounds of this commercial. Doesn't sound there will be mass hysteria over it.

PulpoTonto4004d ago

Get them in the news saying their console will turn your child into a gun-toting lunatic - go buy one now for Little Timmy's christmas present! Mixed messages maybe? ;P

Mrmagnumman3574004d ago

This is somewhat true. It will put ps4 in the limelight, and of course kids will see the shooting game and find a way to get a ps4 :D

GribbleGrunger4004d ago (Edited 4004d ago )

This article is spot on in my opinion.

“Who are you to be ordinary? You, who could get away with murder, or raise the dead…”.

Those there words could cost Sony (note the word 'could').

Minato-Namikaze4004d ago

As opposed to saying "can". Some people are just too uptight. Just chillax and mellow out. ( not you specifically)

Myze4004d ago (Edited 4004d ago )

I'm usually not one to be uptight or oversensitive to video game violence/rhetoric. However, from a business standpoint, that line should not be released.

They can come up with something else that would be just as effective, without the unnecessary media attention of alluding to the player as a murderer. They could easily change it to something more about becoming an assassin or spy, where the connotation of the word isn't so readily open to outrage.

It wouldn't even be censorship, because I doubt Sony wants to convey their gamers as murderers, even referring to a game (afterall, it's pretty rare you are just a straight-up cold-blooded murdering bad guy in a game).

mediate-this4004d ago

assassin is the epitome of murder lol

GribbleGrunger4004d ago

I think you're missing his point there fella. He's just pointing out that 'assassins', whilst still related to murder, doesn't relate to any 'control' words currently doing the rounds in the media.

But my personal view is that it shouldn't even be in the ballpark. Yes, this could never happen but why even risk it?

rainslacker4004d ago

It's really all about context. Unfortunately nowadays, you don't need to have things in context for the media to go apesh*t over it.

I'm not terribly oversensitive about these things, but that part about murder is a bit much, and seems like it would be cut if this were real. Just too many bad connotations, and if anything tragic were to happen like Sandy Hook the media would jump all over it like game makers condone that sort of thing.

I agree with Myze though, it's possible to convey a similar message using better words, and quite frankly there were a lot of things in that rumored commercial that don't make great advertising. It seemed to be made to offend as many groups as possible.

NastyLeftHook04004d ago

congressmen are puppets. the 1% rule.

anyways its a cool add.

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mkis0075h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows905h ago(Edited 5h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis0073h ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel19893h ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw5h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno5h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy854h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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