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« Video Games: November 2006 | Main | Video Games: January 2007 » Video GamesOh, Sony. How Low You've Sunk Sony made a fake blog and filmed fake YouTube videos where the people authoring the blog and appearing in the videos pretended to be consumers and fans of the PSP. Then they got caught. Now people aren't so happy with Sony. Here's the link to SomethingAwful.com's forum and the discussion on how bizarre and obviously fake the blog is. Now that the cat's out of the bag, Sony has removed the comments and the YouTube video from the blog. They also posted this "apology": Sony Computer Entertainment America As Tycho said, do they expect a gold star? The apology comes off as fake. "Funky fresh"? Give me a break. This was prolly prompted by 2 factors. 1) People are pissed and 2) the FTC issued this statement on Tuesday saying they'll be looking more closely into "word-of-mouth marketing" and issuing fines. I think that people who were fully intending to get a PSP will still do so. But i think anyone on the fence due to price or games available or whatever is going to look elsewhere. People get pretty touchy about being lied to. As long as you can keep them from realizing it or distract them with enough stuff so they don't want to believe it (e.g., Iraq, the last 2 presidential elections, U.S. foreign policy, etc.), you're golden. But once they do know, they get righteous. You really can't defeat the holy fires of righteous anger. At least, not for a few months, until the next wave of shiny things comes out. Oooooh......shiny....... By min | December 14, 2006, 8:22 AM | Video Games | Link « Video Games: November 2006 | Main | Video Games: January 2007 » |