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Kevin Butler becomes Vice President of betrayal in new commercial

Mariolee

Member
He may be an actor, but his face is synonymous with Sony Playstation advertising. You see Kevin Butler and think PS3, not Scare Tactics or The West Wing. This is hilarious as shit though.
 

apana

Member
I bet you Ueda is going to end up working for Microsoft, in this industry the betrayaltons never end.
 

DrForester

Kills Photobucket
Are people serious with the "Was he a real Sony employee" stuff? That cracked me up.

I actually thought after the marketing campaign was so successful and the E3 visits that he was employed by Sony (in the marketing/PR dept obviously).
 
Then who is the President of Betrayal?
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Mariolee

Member
Does the new one actually do any marketing? I can't even remember the last time I saw a Playstation commercial.

I looked it up, and the Kevin Butler Official Youtube page has no more videos. The Playstation page still has them however. Also, the Kevin Butler twitter page is still pretty active.

My personal life coach quit today. My life inspired him to pursue his own dreams.
 

Takao

Banned
Does the new one actually do any marketing? I can't even remember the last time I saw a Playstation commercial.

Well, let's just say SCEA's new marketing firm is behind those fantastic Vita ads of guys walking around the streets playing Unit 13 at powerpoint speeds.

He was trotted out at E3, you're undrrestimating his popularity.

Yeah, the NeoGAF audience is the one that cares about E3 presentations.
 

aparisi2274

Member
Just saw the commercial, its pretty funny and weird watching some who has been so closely associated with Sony, playing a Wii!
 

Seda

Member
I'm still confused what Bridgestone has anything to do with videogames... what a weird promotion
 

Mariolee

Member
Would love for some reference to this if they make another Kevin Butler commercial. Something subtle like keeping the mustache, then ripping it off as he starts to speak.
 

Takao

Banned
Couldn't have guessed it with 15 minutes of Wonderbook.

You're telling me you haven't preordered all the Wonderbook games yet? : o

Just saw the commercial, its pretty funny and weird watching some who has been so closely associated with Sony, playing a Wii!

Meredith Molinari, who is the host of The Tester on PSN hawks a bunch of merch (Nintendo and Microsoft related) for CTA Digital.
 

hwy_61

Banned
Look at it this way guys, Kevin Butler is the Nolan North of video game marketing! I'm ready for such a thing to happen. I hope he's in a Halo 4 ad campaign.
 

Tuck

Member
NeoGAF success doesn't equal sales success. Kevin Butler hasn't been in a commercial since like what, Resistance 3? Sony also changed marketing firms too.

I thought they changed marketing firms before Kevin Butler?

Either way, the ads were popular. They even let him speak at E3. I thought they would run longer than they did. I wish they had. I know one of my non-gamer friends loved the Uncharted commercial.
 

NeoUltima

Member
Saw this commercial earlier and laughed.
I wonder if he knew the content of the ad before taking the job. Shame on him if so lol.
 
First MS took Phil Harrison, the modern day Longinus. No employee was more batshit for Sony.

Now Nintendo have taken Kevin butler.

The circle is complete.

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Kazerei

Banned
LMAO, Nintendo and Microsoft should totally hire that actor for their own commercials. I dunno how widely recognized the Kevin Butler character is, but at least we would laugh. Lots of potential for inside jokes here.
 
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