Playstation 3 Receives Some Odd Word of Mouth Advertising

After being selected by President Obama to ask the final question at the Fort Myers Town Hall Meeting Julio Osegueda was interviewed by the News-Press. In his statements Julio goes on to state "I have never felt this good except maybe when I got my PlayStation 3 for Christmas." Hundreds, if not thousands of people have visited the site and read the article.

Could something this obscur help with advertising the Playstatiion 3, considering the audience of the site?

Click the link to see the entire article and video.

[lokiroo420]

Obama = Ps3

Geedubbaya = 3fixme

[Beg For Mercy]

i agree

[jrsenkbe]

I believe that Obama would choose the PS3 over any of the consoles if he didn't have kids. He is a tech guy it appears.

[shadowghost752]

a keen scientist it appears as well, he is supposedly going to be bringing back the theory of evolution into many schools in the midwest where only creationism is taught

[jrsenkbe]

what??? I am lost with your statement

[HighDefinition]

And yes, getting a PS3 for Xmas would be amazing.

I bought mine, and THAT was great itself.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Beg For Mercy]

ya man, i remember when my wife bought mines home to me and we opened it in front of a neighbor she was like wow that things look beautiful like a spaceship or something.

[nix]

i bought mine as a b'day/christmas/new year gift to myself. we had 4 days of holiday and i didn't even step out of the house. later my parents saw it and thought it looked like some futuristic spaceship. lol.. q:

but sadly only if sony would advertise their product properly. they're stuck between their strategy: to sell it as a home intertainment system or video game player. no wonder we don't get to see great ads like PS2/PS1 had. forget great ads, we don't even see ads at all.

i wonder if KZ2 ads are even going to be aired or not.

[krauley]

after searching stores for a month or so i finally decided to buy one of those expensive bundles online, you know the ones that you have to buy 25 games, 6 controllers, 90 cables and a 200 year service plan. so i order it and my wife comes home with a brand new shiny 60 gigger just to find out that i ordered the package and ruin her xmas surprise. needless to say i got my ps3 early and cancelled my online purchase. anyway yes it was amazing to get it for xmas

[Liquid Dust]

At that moment I was really having a hard time deciding between it and the 360. 360 had some great titles such as Bioshock and Mass Effect that was making it look pretty attractive, but the prospect of missing out on MGS4, God of War, GT5, and Ratchet and Clank Future was just too much to bare. I am extremely happy with my choice, I had no idea what 2008 would have in store for me in addition to those titles mentioned above: WipEout HD, Bioshock PS3, LittleBigPlanet, R2, etc. Lets not forget Valkyria Chronicles, what a gem.

Now Killzone 2 is coming out? Played the demo nearly 50 times. Looks to have some top notch multiplayer.

God of War 3, anyone read if there was any mention of a release of 2009 in the latest Game Informer Scans?

Im excited to be a playstation owner for a 3rd generation

[Bubble Buddy]

Sony paid them to say it :P, kidding.

[SCThor]

Do what I did....just get a $400-500 PC and you're ready to go

[ultimolu]

I got mine in August 2007.

I almost cried when I got it. I was that excited. :D

[Danja]

November 17th , 2006. Launch Day..XD

good when u have links at the game stores my friend reserved mine..4 me...

[Sevir04]

I was the happiest owner ever, with it came it's toys Motorstorm, Resistance fall of man, Virtua fighter 5, Ridge racer 7. It was the best investment i ever made. as a matter of fact that was the same day i purchased my 2000 dollar big rig. it was awesome. I celebrated Christmas that day, I told my brother that i got a ps3 back in florida and he was like OMG... It was a surreal experience, The game was just I first tried motorstorm and it was like how it was for me back in 2003 when i transitioned from PS1 to PS2 that faithful january, the jump in graphics are just incredible, Playing in HD was like a jolt into the future, I'll never ever go back to playing in SD.

i thank my PS3, i became a Next gen HD gamer because of it.

[Saigon]

to advertise without putting money out...

[jrsenkbe]

I remember the day that I brought mine home, the first thing I did was put in a new HDD.

The best though was when I bought my HD 42 inch LCD TV and hooked my PS3 up with HDMI and bose surround sound and played Uncharted.

so sweet.

[cmrbe]

I had to wait a year for Uncharted.

[randomwiz]

you should put in a new solid state drive. I got a 64gb for $120 and my performance was amazing

[cmrbe]

I felt like a little kid on chritmas morning when my PS3 arrived.

[San Frandisco]

dude,i also remember wen i had some HUGE @SS conflict with my job back then about bieng payed and money problems ,but once i won and got wut was owed to me,1st thing i did was reward myself with a playstation 3 that single day.. $400 well spent and never regretting it.

i would have to say the most compelling part about unbloxing my ps3 was that new smell of next-gen freshness from the beautifull black box.

popped in motorstorm (it was the bundle) and was like WHOA! lol.
even though i had a rear-projection HDTV.

had a smile till this day still.

i had 2 previouse 360's and i can tell you that the overall experience with a ps3 is way more satisfying and exciting then the 360 imo.

[Trebius]

It was a bright and sunny day...

I had just returned from work to my home and heard terrible news that my best friend had passed away...

After 2 or 3 days of grieving and crying, I went out and got myself a 46" Sony Bravia full HD tv and a ps3 in order to outweigh the sadness.

I was still upset obviously...but it helped a lot...kept my mind off of things...

[Mr Tretton]

The guy was clearly paid by Microsoft....I mean...Sony!

[thematrix1298]

did I just read KILLZON3D?

[xxchicago33xx]

It's funny that an article like this comes up...I work for a ad shop in Chicago and we deal a lot with in game advertising for PS3 (via IGA). It could be the price point of the PS3 but there is a large push that shows gaming on the PS3 is skewing a lot more affluent, male in the mid-upper 30s.

Again, this could be a price point anomaly but the system without a doubt skews older and more affluent…so this doesn’t surprise me at all. Maybe Sony is trying to target the wrong crowd haha.

[kingme71]

Watch the video on his question. The guy is really out there. Maybe Sony doesn't want him talking about the PS3 :o

>>who flips burgers for $7.85 an hour
Yikes, I think I got $4.25 when I was that age. No wonder he can afford a PS3 :)

[Sarcasm]

"No wonder he can afford a PS3 :) "

I think you missed it. He got a PS3 for Christmas. Hence, he didn't pay for it and got it as a gift.

[kingme71]

I caught that part, but it worked well with my disbelief at how underpaid I was back in the stone ages, so I went with it :)

[celldomceen1]

Got mine for christmas 2007 wife picked me up for lunch and it was sitting in my chair. DID NOT GO BACK TO WORK THAT DAY!

[xxchicago33xx]

haha too funny...I thought this was a different article (should have clicked thru). This man is not affluent at all. Good for him though.

For anyone who is interested you should check out the Nielsen in-game study (google it...some good information).

I got my PS3 two years ago I wanted a blu-ray player so bad and the prices were about the same as a PS3. Turns out it has some pretty good games as well. Second best purchase I've made.

[kosovo]

lol.
the blackberry president.
obama 08 = ps3 09

[StephanieBBB]

Got my PS3 at X-mas. Got the Call of Duty 4 bundle and I thought to myself "Crap another generic FPS shooter" But oh my how wrong I was. I finished the single player and moved on to the multiplayer part in like two days. This was when COD4 multiplayer still was pretty much unknown to the public and people were all talking about Halo 3's forge and zombie mode.

After getting to the top rank in CoD4 the multiplayer became too easy. At that point my friends finally found out that CoD4 was "Teh shiztz" I thought to myself not a moment too late. But as I had alot more training then them I always ended at the top of most kills, least deaths and when the addon pack came I couldn't care less. I hope KZ2 brings alittle more challenge =)

[jay2]

Could something this obscur help with advertising the Playstatiion 3, considering the audience of the site?
only one I bud.

[OGharryjoysticks]

And then back to Sony bashing the following day

[Gish]

When i heard the crazy guy say that, i was like "oh god this will give xbox fanboys a load of ammunition" Plus not putting a good face on gamers for the rest of the world to see...

[Charlie_Shene]

yea when i got my ps3 for xmas i felt pretty damm good :)

[randomwiz]

I think Obama supports wii more than anything else

[jrsenkbe]

yeah he does support Wii because he has kids, but I would bet if he didnt have kids and still played games he would buy a PS3 because he likes great technology. Look at his whole BlackBerry thing.

[PirateThom]

Got my PS3 in March 2007. European launch.