Chrange said:Whatever they tell him to? HE'S AN ACTOR :lol
Yeah, but he obviously cares about Sony. You saw the part at E3 when he interrupted the main guy to give that speech?
Chrange said:Whatever they tell him to? HE'S AN ACTOR :lol
StuBurns said:Me on MS.
Your product range is an embarrassment, your console is inferior, your operating system is inferior, your portable MP3 players are inferior, your cell phone OS is inferior, your search engine is inferior, your name is stupid and your boss is a cunt.
The Faceless Master said:at first i didn't care, then i realized this happened in Australia
Not even a little.Threi said:WRONG
what if i'm sweaty, 33 years old but looking like 45, live in a house composed entirely of rotting drywall, and wear a stained t-shirt that just says THE TROOPS on it. am i the Expanded Audience.Dabanton said:You'd have to have paper thin skin to be even offended by this.
Unless you are actually sweaty over 30 and wear Metallica T shirts.
According to the article, they did:abstract alien said:Should have just went with the ole "fat and living in their parent's basement/spare room" label. I will be turning 30 soon though, so...partial correctness.
And it didn't end there - the presentation featured constant allusions to basement dwelling nerds and impenetrable control schemes. Which is fine if Microsoft's courting vacuous fashionistas now, but does the company have to do it at our expense?
:lolSegata Sanshiro said:Haha, this is going to be one of those really ugly breakups where you have to pretend to care about your buddy's feelings but really you're just laughing at how terrible it all is.
:lolHugbot said:All my Metallica T-Shirts were ruined by sweat stains
Threi said:Seriously though nobody should really be offended by this. The same reason they are doing this is the same reason MS and Sony and a lot of devs referred to the Wii's audience/appeal as "soccer moms, kids and grandmas": They are trying to get "cred" with the audience they are trying to appeal to. It was just a marketing ploy then and it's just a marketing ploy now.
And those are?gofreak said:Well, it's one of a series of implicit or explicit statements made about 'the hardcore' in the last few months. All on top of a context where MS seems to be decreasingly interested in generously serving its hardcore base.
So maybe that's why.
ShinAmano said:Funny thing is...the sweaty thirty year old are the ones who buy games...and probably wont be buying Kinect.
Way to go MS.
No, it means they've already got the hardcore crowd to the extent that they feel it's worth throwing money at it, and now they're trying to court a new audience.ULTROS! said:So... Does this mean they're giving up on the hardcore crowd?
Chrange said:lol - one offhand remark made in jest is the extent of what they took away from the whole thing?
Whatever they tell him to? HE'S AN ACTOR :lol
Chrange said:Whatever they tell him to? HE'S AN ACTOR :lol
AgreedRad- said:There's so much overly sensitive people in the world. How can anyone get pissed off by something like this is beyond me.
Archie said:Fuck Microsoft. Megadeth is the superior band.
So you've been to E3?Galvanise_ said:Everyone should club together and turn up to every single gaming event wearing Metallica T-shirts and not wash for 9 days prior to them.
Or wear T-shirts with his face on. Still stinking.
There are people who BELIEVE that, that's why I responded to Astro! It must freak them out to see him in that credit card commercial :lolValkyr Junkie said:Whoa there, stop the bus. Jerry Lambert is an actor, Kevin Butler is the real deal.
Ushojax said:Why does anyone give a shit? This is no worse than the stuff GAF says about hipsters.
Chrange said:Whatever they tell him to? HE'S AN ACTOR :lol
Indeed. It's just one of those truths you aren't supposed to speak about customers, like if you work in a clothing store and a person of... significant carriage asks if the outfit makes them look fat.PepsimanVsJoe said:In all fairness hardcore gamers are about as fashionable as roadkill.
The 360 pad also has zero style.
wwm0nkey said:Thats worse.
Is GAF trying to sell stuff to hipsters?Ushojax said:Why does anyone give a shit? This is no worse than the stuff GAF says about hipsters. The truth hurts, I guess.
Segata Sanshiro said:No, it means they've already got the hardcore crowd to the extent that they feel it's worth throwing money at it, and now they're trying to court a new audience.
I mean, there has to be some confidence at MS that their hardcore audience isn't going to abandon them no matter what they do, what with testing that by the whole shitbrick hardware thing and all.
Ok, I'm out of here.Interfectum said:I don't think some of you get it.
I don't take offense to what they said, it's the tone and the fact that corporations like MS get off on pissing on their consumer's faces.