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PlayStation All-Stars Island announced for iOS / Android / Coke Zero [Free / Summer]
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IncandescentPrecept
Banned
Well, unlike on the 360, this gane here is optional
RawkHawk2010
Member
The idea of "Nintendo Land Fanta" makes me lol intensely.
NOPE! Any iPhone and Android device within a 100 mile radius of ANY Playstation branded device automatically displays this app.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Damn that is bogus lol
Byakuya769
Member
Meh. Ok way to introduce their characters, I guess. No skin off my back.
13 pages yet no one remembers there was a PlayStation
game 16 years ago which had a ton of product placement in-game from a famous energy drink, even before that drink came in the United States. It even tried to convince you in the loading screens that it would "improve your reaction times".
That game was WipEout 2097/XL, and it came to be one of the best futurist racers ever made, if not the best (personally).
And don't forget that Gran Turismo 5 had that ∞+1 car (-1 if you had to drive it) called Red Bull X2010. However, it was just a partnership between Polyphony and Red Bull Racing, and I don't consider it as "product placement" as WO2097 and that PSAS Island Coke Zero Gaming-Boost game.
Although I find the reaction to the Coke 0 game funny, it's interesting to see no one mentioned Psygnosis/Sony already did it in the past.
Despite being released in other platforms, PS1 is the best version of it
That game was WipEout 2097/XL, and it came to be one of the best futurist racers ever made, if not the best (personally).
And don't forget that Gran Turismo 5 had that ∞+1 car (-1 if you had to drive it) called Red Bull X2010. However, it was just a partnership between Polyphony and Red Bull Racing, and I don't consider it as "product placement" as WO2097 and that PSAS Island Coke Zero Gaming-Boost game.
Although I find the reaction to the Coke 0 game funny, it's interesting to see no one mentioned Psygnosis/Sony already did it in the past.
Sufficiently dense quantities of idiocy can slice through my jovial demeanour like a hot knife through a sheep's eye.
Microsoft beat both by about a year.
Edit: actually, Kinectimals is 18 months old and I don't think that was their first iOS release. Suffice to say, MS did it first and good on 'em.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
Apparently, the game is not going to be released in the US.
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/08/08/playstation-all-stars-gets-coke-sponsored-ios-android-app
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/08/08/playstation-all-stars-gets-coke-sponsored-ios-android-app
I can't see any reason that this would be released for Vita. I'd say it's as likely as seeing Golden Abyss on iOS.
IncandescentPrecept
Banned
Hopefully, this gets downloaded by the millions.
Coloress_Kafka
Member
I see this is exclusive to Europe. It's really starting to seem like SCEE has WAY more money to spend on promotions than SCEA. :/
StreetsAhead
Member
It's a corporate cross-promotion using bastardized versions of the characters and rip-off gameplay with an unsuccessful branding. Not only that, it further reinforces gaming's association with unhealthy products, which I don't like for different reasons.
You can say it's good advertising, but I honestly expect that the vast majority of people who download it will be already aware of the franchises/Play Station brand in general and I'm not exactly sure this is going to sell anyone on the full versions of the character's games.
Honestly, how many people would play a free app like this, who didn't have an interest in a PS3/4/V or the games before and suddenly become interested in one based on a free Temple Run (from what I can tell) rip-off with a constantly-on screen Coke bottle? How is this not cheapening the brands?
You can say it's good advertising, but I honestly expect that the vast majority of people who download it will be already aware of the franchises/Play Station brand in general and I'm not exactly sure this is going to sell anyone on the full versions of the character's games.
Honestly, how many people would play a free app like this, who didn't have an interest in a PS3/4/V or the games before and suddenly become interested in one based on a free Temple Run (from what I can tell) rip-off with a constantly-on screen Coke bottle? How is this not cheapening the brands?
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
While I'm sure most people have heard of Uncharted, the overwhelming majority of people who check this app out have -never- heard of Gravity Rush.
I think this was a good idea in theory its just the fact that the execution is so poor. This needed to either come out last year or it needed to be focused on IP that are coming some point in the near future like the PS4 launch.
not_so_special
Banned
some people here are just grasping for straws
I hope you realize the irony of this post.
StreetsAhead
Member
I don't know. To me it just seems more like trying to sell Coke Zero to Play Station fans than it is trying to sell Play Station characters to Coke Zero fans.
They should relax with a nice cold beverage of choice
Americanmushroom
Banned
tried it. its ok, loadings are kinda long for an ios app but it looks good. Its really designed as coca zero ad. Even the titles of the games are in red to coincide with the coke zero font. i could only play one game wich is the uncharted one and its basically a temple run clone
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
You're saying they're trying to turn Coke drinkers in to gamers and gamers in to Coke drinkers?
MemoryHumanity
Member
This. This is the kind of shit that all investors want Nintendo to do, isn't it.
friskykillface
Banned
for $2 that mini bike game had decent courses and was fun online
I love wario had the first post. amazing B^)
Stealth Editor
Member
Why? This would set an awful precedent
Lambda Pie
Banned
yes, and it's incredibly smart marketing. "hey, like these characters? live their full epic adventures on PlayStation 4, retailing for 399$."
Thank you for paying $0 for our skinned coke temple run. Now can you please pay over $500 and play something completely different and more daunting but with the same characters? Kthxbye
MemoryHumanity
Member
Should have clarified; a lot of investors want Nintendo to go full time iOS.
And I don't agree with your point either, but I'm not going to get into that.
EDIT:
Pretty much this.
StreetsAhead
Member
Well, if you include the Vita (Kat), it's really asking for more than $500, no?
Otherwise, pretty much this.