Game Spot: Xbox 360 ripples up Wii site

Posted Dec 17, 2006 at 2:33AM by QJ Staff Listed in: Wii, Xbox 360 Tags: Microsoft
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It's a no-brainer that advertising is a dog-eat-dog world. And while some sales pitches are just plain weird, we were beginning to wonder what one website had in mind when they posted this ad. Kind of reminds us of the old Pepsi vs. Coca-Cola days.

We were scoping out Game Spot for our daily dose of Wii news, when we noticed something didn't quite fit in the Wii's page: a Microsoft Xbox 360 ad that flooded the site's background with its trademark apple-green swirls and accessories.

Wii: 360 ads on the side


While multiple console ads like this are becoming commonplace, the layout's a literal eye-sore: other guys have already reported on how painful the ad is on the eyes, with all those green ripples staring them in the face like some pseudo-psychedelic hypno-machine...good thing they're not animated.



Via Game Spot

 
 
 

Comments [refresh]

by OGM - 2006-12-16 22:05
» damn microsoft...

...

by wasd - 2006-12-16 22:48
» wasd

Its just an advertisement, get over it.

by abcde - 2006-12-16 23:52
» ha

Doesnt deserve to be posted here.

by .. - 2006-12-17 01:13
» ..

They are trying to show that wii and 360 are good but ps3 is f'ucking s'hit

by sfd - 2006-12-17 02:23
» kj

It show how Lemming GameSpot staffs are.

by Moo - 2006-12-17 04:06
» ._.

i have a screenshot i took a while ago when there was like that on ps3's site on gamespot.

by Blarg - 2006-12-17 05:33
» Post

I saw that too! The same ads were on the PS3 page also. I could care less. I don't like the PS3 very much, but I respect it.

by gamespot sux period. - 2006-12-17 06:28
» ddfdf

f**ck gamespot they are a bunch of f***ts cuz dey be giving zeld tp low rating and F**K da doode dat gave that rating he is a dip s**T f*** f***t gamespot sucks period be hatin n s***

by Fasoo - 2006-12-17 07:07
» Hmm?

Is that English you're speaking?

by asdf - 2006-12-17 07:32
» I hate microsoft

and i think gamespot just sell out, because of the bad publicity they are giving to ps3 and wii games (like the bad rate they gave to twilight princess) and the good they are giving to 360 games (gears of war).

by ! - 2006-12-17 11:18
» !

erm........ maybe cause gears of war deserves it which it does. and zelda is just for pedophiles anyway

by asdfasdfa - 2006-12-17 14:35
» asd

Yet its not on the 360 page =D

by Count Blah - 2006-12-17 17:02
» Yeah that's why

TP's average score is higher than GoW's. Don't get me wrong GoW is the 3rd best game of the year but it doesnt beat Zelda imo.

by ^funny coment bout zelda^... but.... - 2006-12-18 06:09
» QUEERS OF WAR

HAHA - QUEERS OF WAR

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