Sony Pulls Controversial PSP Ad, Issues Apology

xenongamer writes "Sony has finally stepped up and pulled the racially controversial PSP ads out of the Netherlands. 'We... recognize that people have a wide variety of perceptions about such imagery and we wish to apologize to those who perceived the advert differently to that intended. In future, we will apply greater sensitivity in our selection of campaign imagery, and will take due account of the increasingly global reach of such local adverts, and their potential impact in other countries,' said Sony in a statement."

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Artwork in ad should match artwork in game

[Animats]

It's time to take the position that if the ad or the box has better art than the game does, it's false advertising. There's no excuse today for bad in-game art, and games now generate HDTV resolution output, so if the box or ad has better art, it's willfully deceptive.

Now if that scene of the white girl giving the black girl a hard time had been in the game, the picture would have been fine. It would fit well into, say, the next generation of GTA.

(This got me thinking. Very few games today allow players to touch. We don't have good wrestling games, or martial arts throws, or football pileups. You can hit other players, but can't shake their hand. Or hand them something. Or cooperate in carrying something. Yet collision detection and motion planning technology is good enough to do that now. Something to work on.)