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Sony’s almost GTA IV ad campaign

April 23rd, 2008 - Posted by: Jeff Rivera in PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

So for about a day Amazon had a listing up saying that GTA IV was “meant to be played on the PS3.” Now, after some digging around, it was admitted by Amazon PR Manager Tammy Hovey to Joystiq that Sony had actually paid for the promotional language in their product listing. Here’s how it looked:

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Now I’m all for companies advertising the products that they have coming out for their systems, but to speak with such misleading language is incredibly lame. Besides, the Xbox 360 version is going to have exclusive DLC content, so as it stands, it appears that the 360 version is going to be the most complete.

After a small e-riot, the product listing has been changed to a more suitable product listing, and fanboy panties everywhere have become unbunched.

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3 Responses to “Sony’s almost GTA IV ad campaign”
  1. chrisbg99 says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 8:04 pm

    Yeah I hate GTA. Never understood the love the game got. Horrid controls being the foremost reason aside from the fact that the franchise is boring as hell.

  2. Brandon says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 8:37 am

    GTA 1 & 2 were fun in a amusing not serious sort of way. They were good for a laugh. GTA3 was good, but really only because it was such a change, Everything since then has just been a crappier GTA3 in a different wrapper.

  3. feelinblu says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 11:03 am

    Every GTA since GTA3 has had absolutely terrible controls. People look past it because it’s GTA, but they aren’t overly polished in their mechanics.

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