How do Sony advertise a dead handheld game (or lack of) console?

They hire a snot nosed brat who fails at trying to be cool, "hard" or funny and who is actually stupid enough to think that the PSP is actually worth buying or let alone worth playing!

This is a pathetic marketing campaign and the creators of these ads should be embarrassed and ashamed.

This very ad campaign has set Gamefaqs.com on fire. At one point, there were so many topics dedicated to this 'issue' that mods just started deleting them.

Why?

Because, even a 10-year old can recognise how obviously inappropiate and untimely 'dated' this ad campaign is. What is this, 1994?

Youung Marcus is not at fault here. He is just young actor trying to get as much work and facetime as he can to stay relevant and put some money in his pocket. And, im certain that he loves the PSP.

The fault is squarely at Sony Marketing.
The PSP machine is practically at a demise after the psp go. And, now with the upcoming Nintendo 3DS, the PSP will go the way of the Atari Lynx.

What PSP customers need right now is not shock value and a few gag laughs. We need to see a FULL LIBRARY of GAMES ON PSN. We need reassurance that the investment we made in sony's handheld was not in vain. We need ads showing us gameplay of NEW games on the system. Who cares who's the front man for this machine if the machine will be dead a year from now? What a waste of ad dollars.


If this is Sony's way of suggesting that the PSP is the little 'black sheep' of the Sony brand, then count me unimpressed. And, a little bit offended.

I don't know why everyone's whining about this. The kids funny, he'll do a fine job. Why would you criticize sony for trying to advertise their product? I wouldn't say its dead... yet, and Sonys trying to stop it from dying.

*Tries to change the subject*

I like WAFFLES!

I'm just happy that Sony has bothered marketing the PSP at all. I am getting a bit sick of everyone saying it's a dead console, the games library this year has been as strong as the DS as far as I can see, even excluding the Japanese releases.

If Sony follow this up then that's fine with me. More games like Peace Walker, Persona 3, Valkyria, GOW, Hot Shots Tennis, Ace Combat et al and I'll be a happy bunny.

Oh,and QJ, knock off the bloody adverts! I'm sick of each page taking ages to load while my pop-up blocker goes nuts. Even reading this article I got redirected to something called China TV and couldn't get back here without closing the browser.

You're making the site unusable, show some sense and knock it on the head please.

MGS peacewalker is worth buying a psp on its own, if youve never played peacewalker or gow on psp u dont have the right to judge

So all you trolls consider the PSP dead and because of Marcus Rivers, it would be even worse?

Yes he is annoying, Yes he may not be that funny, Yes he does some unnecessary extra stuff, but the fact that no one is giving the PSP marketing attention and he knows the psp and what it needs got him the position next to Kevin Butler. AND don't compare him to Kevin dammit, please. We all know he is nowhere as good as him.

When you ignorant trolls see an awesome PSP exclusive trailer and say, "I want this on the PS3", It serves you fuckers right because even you want Monster Hunter for PS3. It's like a fanboy war between handheld and Console under the same gaming company.
You trolls have no good purpose in life and NEED TO DIE!

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