360 ads plastered all over PS3 website

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360 ads plastered all over PS3 website

Posted Nov 30th 2006 3:15PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: Console wars

An observant blogger recently noticed something amusing on Gamespot's PS3 page. It looks like someone over at Microsoft's marketing department has a good sense of humor, as the PS3 page is covered with 360 ads and images. Sure, it's funny, but there are 360 ads on all the other pages, right? Nope, we checked and the only page to receive the 360 treatment was the PS3 page. In fact, all the other pages have blank backgrounds, so this was definitely intentional on someone's part -- or an ironic mistake. We were curious, so we checked IGN and 1UP, but saw nothing similar. It looks like Gamespot is the only site to fall victim to Microsoft's joke ... for now anyway.

[Via The Midas Touch]

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1. ha ha ha. nuff said

Posted at 3:27PM on Nov 30th 2006 by purefuzz

2. xboxowned!

Posted at 3:35PM on Nov 30th 2006 by Ozyman666

3. soo obnoxious, i love it!

Posted at 3:39PM on Nov 30th 2006 by botdeluxe

4. No mistake. Sony needs to start buying ads on GameSpot's site. I think that they're sending that message loud and clear.

Posted at 3:42PM on Nov 30th 2006 by Wii360dsPSPpc

5. Haha, good stuff

Posted at 4:05PM on Nov 30th 2006 by Stu

6. I don't think I would call it a joke - I think it is some pretty effective advertising.

Posted at 4:32PM on Nov 30th 2006 by Slippy

7. "I don't think I would call it a joke - I think it is some pretty effective advertising."

Aw, you're just saying that because it's lighting up the blogosphere. Oh, wait ...

Posted at 4:40PM on Nov 30th 2006 by Richard Mitchell

8. thanks for this information

Posted at 5:56PM on Nov 30th 2006 by John

9. THAT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TAKE ON A TEAM WITH THE RICHEST MAN IN THE UNIVERSE ON BOARD....GOODLUCK SONY..MICROSOFT PAYS ME SO IT TASTES BETTER AND OH, I USED SOME OF THE ONEY TO GET A WII TOO. HAHAHAHA! THIS IS A SHOP CLOSING KILLAH MOVE MS.

Posted at 7:42PM on Nov 30th 2006 by Bruno Nosa Ubakar

10. www.gametrailers.com has Xbox 360 ads all over the place. Very similiar to the ones at gamespot.

Posted at 10:27PM on Nov 30th 2006 by cerberus414

11. Xbox 360

Because you can actually buy it just by walking into the store.

Posted at 11:10PM on Nov 30th 2006 by epobirs

12. it's been like that for about a week or 2 i think its great! very nice marketing

Posted at 11:54PM on Nov 30th 2006 by Andrew

13. looks like a made up page to me, you lot believe anything

Posted at 3:41AM on Dec 1st 2006 by subsonicwave

14. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

OWNED!

Posted at 8:54AM on Dec 1st 2006 by Brian

15. wow, that is frickin' hilarious. Thanks for sharing, high five!

Posted at 8:45PM on Dec 1st 2006 by aZTEKv2

16. Ha ha ha. nuff said

Posted at 8:06AM on Dec 4th 2006 by purefuzz

17. Wouldn't realize that as because of Adblock I don't ever see any ads.

Posted at 8:23AM on Dec 4th 2006 by Simon

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