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Microsoft Advertising at Wii U Best Buy Events
- Thread starter Permanently A
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"game that the mainstream audience embrace
and you're citing amazon charts, which show zero numbers, only placement.
Between this and saying people don't like Platinum Games because their games will not sell well, I'd recommend you don't quit your day job.
Permanently A
Junior Member
Oh god, I just realized the video, in response to the concerns over the Xbone spying on you, the guy says "Put a blanket over it"
This is almost too ridiculous to be true
This is almost too ridiculous to be true
SymbolicGamer
Banned
I didn't know those existed.
I bet that guy in the video thought he was clever calling it the spybox. I wonder how long it took him to think that one up.
Of course it's ridiculous.
He wasn't being serious. He was responding to the paranoid nerd thinking Microsoft is bugging his house with Kinect.
Still a jerk move for that Microsoft guy to be there, though I don't know the whole story. I wonder if Microsoft sent him there or if he was there on his own accord. I can imagine him just being a merchandiser and stocking the shelves, seeing the Wii U and sticking around for a bit.
It's kinda low, but at least Sony didn't flat-out send people to go bother a line.
Ricko Suave
Member
I'm surprised that no one has made a thread Listing all of MS questionable decisions concerning the Xbone.
Hold your horses before you make a personal attack.
Amazon Charts was part of the equation, the second part of the post was proposing the taste of the industry might have been shifted. I'll recommend you to read between the lines regarding Platinum Games.
KefkaPalazzo
Member
Some of these comments...If Sony was doing this, it would be called aggressive marketing.
Treythalomew
Member
Why would anyone do that when you can have a seperate thread for all of them.
Fox Mulder
Member
I've seen reps for a number of companies in Best Buy. A directv rep tried to convert me and ask a bunch of questions, but I'm a cord cutter.
Permanently A
Junior Member
Talking to a Nintendo rep? Interesting. Mind if I can add this to the OP?
Pretty much this. It's also not uncommon for reps from various companies to be roaming bestbuys.
The guy in the video seems to be on his way home or to work (hence the back pack)and simply chatting up with other gaming fans. Its not like he was preaching and handing out pamphlets for the xbone religion. This is a non story people want to use as another check box to shit on Microsoft with.
Some guy in a black polo with a non-descript (not Sony, MS, or Best buy) logo was hovering near the start of the (100+ person) line at the event I went to today. He was trying to dissuade people from waiting, and I believe was praising the virtues of another console as I walked up. He was already into his spiel by the time we got there, and I didn't hear exactly which console he was supporting. What I did hear clearly was: "Are you really going to wait? All you're going to get to play here is Mario Kart and Mario World." When the group in front of us said that they did, in fact, want to stay he sort of shrugged his shoulders, sighed reluctantly and said "Alright, I guess they do have the swag." (Referring to the Wii U bags and lanyards, and Mario Kart pennants being given to the attendees.) He then walked away, and I didn't notice him again.
He seemed very corporate. Way too clean and professional to be some passing fanboy.
He seemed very corporate. Way too clean and professional to be some passing fanboy.
When someone says something in absolute, you can try inferring it in a sarcastic manner.
Playsation_
Banned
Despicable!...
There's swag?
I love this. Microsoft Stores are being built up in Best Buys in the US starting this week, for a lunch in late June, and there have been no less than 3 posts linking, and confirming that is happening to Best Buys, all over the country... and almost everyone in here is ignoring that fact.
Typical Microsoft. Spending millions building up stores in Best Buys.... just to socially engineer Xbox One sales.
Typical Microsoft. Spending millions building up stores in Best Buys.... just to socially engineer Xbox One sales.
This is Microsoft we are talking about. Ballmer thinks he is sexy so he likes his reps to look like him.
Ok, that was lame.
Canis lupus
Member
''put a blanket on it or something'' lol
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
The difference is, Sony doesn't actually need to do any marketing for the PS4. Microsoft is doing it all for them.
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
Banned
Yeah, judging from the buzz I've been hearing, Nintendo should definitely put more people on Mario Kart 8 to get it out for the holidays. and push 3D Mario into an early 2014 title.