10 Huge Gaming Controversies That Rocked Sony PlayStation
Ever hear the one about the four-boobed woman? Sony tell it best.
Remember when Sony's ad-campaigns were downright disturbing? Back in the day the success of the PS1 had become so widespread so fast, it freed up their marketing team to go a little more... experimental with the PS2. Many readers around the 25 year-old mark will remember the cross-eyed Japanese 'alien' ad that featured a Scottish girl vaguely describing allegories of preparation and applying yourself to a given situation - y'know, 'gamer stuff'. Obviously nothing in the above paragraph is to suggest any offence to the lady in question's looks, but to a younger audience who randomly saw this in the middle of otherwise unassuming adverts for vacuum cleaners and upcoming movies, it was pretty damn terrifying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHxicjFRnoo All that is to say until they needed to step it up a gear and recover their footing following a generational trouncing from Microsoft and the 360, they were forever a company that somewhat played by their own rules, occasionally catching the ire of the general public because of it, but mostly building a brand off the back of some stellar games that did most of the talking instead. However, it wouldn't be worth looking into their history if not to shine a light on when their collective cooks threw far too many potent ingredients into the broth, getting the company in headlines worldwide for all the wrong reasons - as well as occasionally looking mighty daft in the process.