It's not a great commercial, but there's nothing wrong with it. At least it's better than those Marcus ones.
Funny video - I have a PSP but haven't even turned it on for over a year. I've been enjoying my ipod touch too much !
I have a PSP go- I got it because of the PS1 classics, but there are a lot of hardcore games on it- I've noticed that the hardcore games on the PSP tend towards the console style of gameplay (especially in RPGs), while the Ipod touch and Iphone tend towards PC gameplay styles in their hardcore titles. As a result, I play the PSP sparingly (though often in comparison to the PS3 at home due to lots of travel time, since I have no driver's license despite being a legal adult- I've always taken the bus) And the Iphone 3GS I recently got signed up to AT&T; until my sister gives me her Iphone 4 (she switched to a blackberry because she prefers her iPad); A lot more. I mainly do PC games for Morrowind and multiplayer NWN1/2, as I'm fed up with Call of Cthulhu's obscene difficulty and I'm taking a break from Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. I occasionally do use Audiosurf, and play Daggerfall and system shock quite a lot- system shock using a mouselook modification that came up a while ago. First person shooters are limited to primarily the half-life series, Prey, etc.- though I sometimes play Blood. I honestly prefer PC style games in everything but FPS multiplayer matches, as I consider the lack of a matchmaking system to be holding the genre back on the PC. What I wish someone would do is make a private server system that allowed matchmaking of similar game modes and access to a global server setup that was meant to provide absolute priority to matchmaking providing you chose an option like "Console Style Matchmaking" over "Hybrid Matchmaking" and "Select Private Server". Anyway.... big rant with a simple purpose: There are very few ways I consider the PC game style to be inferior, and that's a big part of why I perfer my iphone for a good portion of the games I play. Those primarily have to do with different genres and how they approach multiplayer. (of course, I need not say that an RPG with an arena mode to battle characters against each other would benefit by the console style of FPS matchmaking for that specific gametype- NWN's Arena servers are a nightmare, though I perfer hybrid Roleplaying/Arena servers.
Had one also but sold it shortly after buying it. The Touch won out each time I wanted to play a game. Its taking time from my PS3 games as well. Its just way too convenient. And the commercial?.......it reeks.
Sony just doesn't get it. With an iphone you can buy and play a great game for a dollar, listen to whatever great music you add onto the device, watch all kinds of cool youtube vids, use the phone to call your girl up and tell her to come over with the tight jeans on and then record video and take pics of her shakin it with the camera when she gets there. I think its time to step it up Sony, and stop "pretending" that the PSP is cool or for a larger audience, when it just isn't.
What can you do with a PSP? Unless you're under 14 or hangin out at your local gamestop, you'll look like a complete anti-social dork if you're seen playing it in public. Does it have a couple cool games? maybe, but not enough for the amount of time it's been out. Most of the cool games are the PS1 games, which are not even original PSP games. My PSP has been collecting dust since I got it, the only reason I still have it is every once and a while I play a classic NES or PS1game when I'm extremely bored, and when I say once in a while I mean once every 6-8 months.
On the Marcus video, I find it interesting that the we see Marcus sitting in a "school bus" with his psp all the while trying to convince the older guy with the more mature device to get a psp. Marcus hasn't a clue. That video itself pretty much explains why the Touch/iPhone is more popular than the psp for at least older dudes, like me.
That really wasn't creative at all. The idea was very gratuitous (meaning it required no thought at all) It wasn't in very good taste...(innuendo's in commercial adds are just like sayin "no pun intended"....there's always a pun intended only it left to your own interpretation. I'm mean who here really thought he was asking to play with the guy "PSPenis"? It was a pretty weak ad & slightly funny at best.
