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Sony uses PGR3 graphic by accident News
Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 News by Tom Bramwell
Score one for the "driving games are all the same" crowd: Sony's been caught using a Project Gotham Racing 3 graphic to promote Gran Turismo HD Concept, apparently unaware of its mistake.
"This one was too good for me not to stop my vacation for a few minutes to post," Xbox Live's Major Nelson chuckled on his blog, pointing out that the main image on the PSP Connect site was actually quite an iconic one from Microsoft's own Bizarre Creations-made Xbox 360 racer.
Screen captures are all over the place if you want to join in the mockey. As Kotaku puts it: "Know what that's a picture of? Somone getting fired."
The picture has since been removed from the PSP Connect website.
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Royal Fool
26/01/07 @ 09:36
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Not as bad as the "All I want for Christmas is a PSP" video, though. Now that was some grade-A failure material, something that should be taught in schools as an example of how not to do marketing.
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Jheronimus
26/01/07 @ 09:37
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I read it on another site. Anyone here who wants to comment about the superiour Gr4fix of the PS3?
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Royal Fool
26/01/07 @ 09:42
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Blerk, I don't think so. The site is registered to Sony and is uses Sony Pictures' nameservers, also, "Sony Connect Inc. is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America".
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BadBoyBonner
26/01/07 @ 09:47
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ROFL - now that is funny - not so funny for whoever did it if they have mortgage payments to make, but seriously who let that go up? Must be more than one head rolling I'd guess.
For another gaff reported on Kotaku see http://kotaku.com/gaming/wii/sony-advert... with the link's name a bit of a give away. Did make me laugh where the page said "The Official US PlayStation site often showcases the latest games for the PS2, PS3, and PSP. NOW THEY SEEM TO BE BRANCHING OUT A BIT, if the description of Metal Slug Anthology is any indication." Come on Sony sort your house out.
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Blerk, I don't think so. The site is registered to Sony and is uses Sony Pictures' nameservers, also, "Sony Connect Inc. is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America".
I didn't mean that it wasn't an official Sony site - it is. But companies often hire third-parties to design and maintain their sites. My company has a web site, but we don't create or host it ourselves. You see? |
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sanctusmortis
26/01/07 @ 10:41
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When you're getting your assets from Sony, though, how do you make that mistake?
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"The most likely explanation is, of course, that the site is actually created and maintained by an external company who are just on Sony's payroll.
But don't let that stop you guffawing. :-)" In which case the screenshots material used by this external company would be provided by Sony itself, wouldn't it? |
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Stormflood
26/01/07 @ 10:44
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It seems too perfectly embarrassing to be an accident. Someone did this on purpose.
And it's not like there aren't any decent screens of GT HD either. |
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Exactly Blerk, it's almost as if the person who made the graphic wasn't a hardcore gamer and wouldn't see the difference between one shiny CG car and the next.
They're being paid to, though. I might not be an expert at long-distance burger recognition, but if McDonald's hired me to design their advertising, I'd say I'd ballsed it up pretty thoroughly if I showed a photo of a Burger King meal. |
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Somebody searched google for images on "gran turismo hd" and picked the first suitable one on page three (second line on the right)...
Edit: "gran", not "grand"
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AHAHAHAHAHA OMFG!!! You guys are so so pathetic! I MEAN GET REAL!!!
If that was from MS you would have been talking so so much shit! lol And now this could have been A) An MS' spy on the work B) A hackers work C) "Sony's been caught using a Project Gotham Racing 3 graphic to promote Gran Turismo HD Concept, apparently unaware of its mistake." WTF? R u serious even think of using those excuses? How old can you really be to even think of saying these things? In their own damn site... OMF... First they pretend they are youngsters to like always use your stupid heads and now this made out of your own... I need a serious answer.. It's sad giving this impression to people that comment dayly or talk with you through this site. |
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the creeper
26/01/07 @ 11:22
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Hmmm. Has Sony Connect ever been talked about this much? It would be interesting to know how many hits it's had in the last 24 hours. And how many downloads.
I think the article over on IGN said this was done by an external company. |
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Stormflood
26/01/07 @ 11:28
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@davisorle
WTF are you ranting about? Read back your own sentence and ask yourself if you make any sense whatsoever: "First they pretend they are youngsters to like always use your stupid heads and now this made out of your own" Seriously, what are you saying here? |
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"Somebody searched google for images on "gran turismo hd" and picked the first suitable one on page three (second line on the right)..."
Seriously, any responsible company should/would provide all necessary material themselves and not rely on Google to provide it for them...
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@Stormflood
"WTF are you ranting about? Read back your own sentence and ask yourself if you make any sense whatsoever Seriously, what are you saying here?" R u so weak in the head so u forgot already about the blog shit? BUY A PSP WE KIDS LOVE IT. Dude.... wake up already... It's not so early not to understand what im talking about |
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@gerald
Not untill I c it happen. U dont get that it's not that I don't want to c MS on top or whatever. It's that I want Sony to start gettin back in their heads and realise what I want for next gen... When they give it to me in also a reasonable price according to what the competitors offer me then I'll be more than glad to go Sony. Till then I'll be having this stance against Sony. Fair enough? |
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prettyboytim
26/01/07 @ 11:53
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Davisorle: Just out of interest, what grade do you expect to get for your English GCSE exam when you take it in a couple of years?
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crazyhorse174
26/01/07 @ 11:54
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...I'm obviously not down with the kids these days because I have no idea what davisorle is going about either...
...I was pretty sure that the "reports of MS spies" were meant to be taken tongue-in-cheek. Do the youth of today have no concept of sarchasm or irony?? |
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It's easier to hack some keywords into GoogleImage and pick a file than to phone the other company or department for the material.
The poor guy who made this banner certainly learned a lesson about gaming journalism, digg and web(marketing)2.0 today. He not only made a embarrassing mistake, but fucked up big time ... |
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@prettyboytim Fucktard.. Im greek... Talk me in greek now since u wanna reace in this.. how much of MALAKAS can u be? seriously... can you tell me that? And I'll answer your smart question... Plus I'm at work and I have to be posting either little by little either in a hurry so mistakes are acceptable I believe... So... HOW MUCH MALAKAS CAN YOU BE? >:)
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crazyhorse174
26/01/07 @ 11:55
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@prettyboytim: Genius mate, genius! If I'd have been drinking tea there, I'd have had to buy a new monitor! :)
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rhinoxious
26/01/07 @ 11:58
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"It's not so early not to understand what im talking about"
You're talking jibba-jabba, use coherent sentences or earn yourself a place on my ignore list. |
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