Microsoft accidentally advertised PlayStation

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Recently Microsoft handed out leaflets to advertise Windows Vista but they accidentally advertised PlayStation instead of Vista. Click on read more to see the image.

Source: http://n4g.com/News-234215.aspx

Sony have done this with a game or two (advertised the wrong thing), time for MS to payback the favour :laugh:

[Michael1406]

I think whichever MS employee did this is laughing right about now. :)

[C++]

I can't tell, are they playing Solitaire or Minesweeper?

[crazzyyfool]

The ad probably wasn't done at MS, more like an agency employed by MS do the advertising and use stock photography. Agreed, it should have been spotted before the marketing campaign went live. Surely someone at MS was responsible for the artwork approval.

More alarming is that fact they're advertisting PS2 instead of PS3. :p

Edited November 20, 2008 by kraized

[kyro]

lol . epic win for ps

[MikeFu84]

Are we sure they aren't those logitech controllers?

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

The ad probably wasn't done at MS, more like an agency employed by MS do the advertising and use stock photography. Agreed, it should have been spotted before the marketing campaign went live. Surely someone at MS was responsible for the artwork approval.

More alarming is that fact they're advertisting PS2 instead of PS3. :p

It's not the first time MS have shown the wrong product in ads

[maplecookie Veteran]

It's simply lazy marketing when these kind of things get out of the gate and into actual print/tv ads.

How it is possible for adverts go pass through multiple hands and reviews and STILL be completely messed up is beyond me.

[crazzyyfool]

It's simply lazy marketing when these kind of things get out of the gate and into actual print/tv ads.

How it is possible for adverts go pass through multiple hands and reviews and STILL be completely messed up is beyond me.

**** happens I guess.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

It's okay guys, I figured it out.

They were just using this

Cunning MS! :p

[Richard Hammond]

Looking at the dpad it looks like a circle light grey dpad instead of a cross like the PS2 pad.

Its not this pad but the dpad looks more like that than that dpad if you look closely at microsofts image.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Looking at the dpad it looks like a circle light grey dpad instead of a cross like the PS2 pad.

Its not this pad but the dpad looks more like that.

You could be right actually.

However if true, next time it's probably best to use something that doesn't look exactly like a PS2 controller unless pixel zoomed! :laugh:

[Brad.]

Lol, reminds me of when Microsoft advertised FireFox on one of their machines in a photo, if I remember correctly.

Still haven't realised why people think ''LOLOLOL PWNED MS LOL'' when reading something like this.

[stevember]

Thats not advert.

It's page from instruction quick start.

[Si_]

Wow, some ad agency used a stock gaming image. Stop drop and roll!!!!

[plainwhitets]

This is been posted elsewhere and it wasn't a Microsoft but rather something bundled with a HP computer advertising Vista. In another page in the ad, they show what looks like a MacBook.

Considering it was from HP, showing a MacBook probably wasn't the best art choice.