39 Creative and Sometimes Controversial Examples of Playstation Advertising

September 7, 2009 - 35 Comments
Advertising, Inspiration, Popular

Recent Playstation advertising has been described, by some circles, as being creative, effective and memorable. By others, down right controversial. In the beginning, the advertising for the original Playstation was reasonably conservative, and demonstrated with ease the product they were selling, without trying to shock or mind blow anyone. Nice and simple. With the arrival of the PS2, and perhaps realizing that the vast majority of the PS2 sales were for adults, the advertising took a downward turn into controversy that generally angered their targeted market. The trend has continued to a lesser extent with the PS3, were perhaps Sony took heed from the feedback of the PS2 advertising and toned down there aggressive and controversial style of advertising. After all, it is just a gaming console.
Ultimately, wether you like the ads or not, every ad is very creative and in its own way effective. Below we have showcased 39 Creative and Sometimes Controversial Examples of Playstation Advertising. Scroll down to the bottom of the post and view some seriously WTF Playstation ads. Sony, what were you thinking?

Advertising the Playstation 3

Advertising the Playstation 2

Advertising The Playstation 1

Advertising the PSP

Seriously Sony, WTF?

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Dany
7 Sep, 2009

Beautiful collection with some really crazy prints!

I recommand also this selection: http://dyvantity.com/inspiration/unpublished-aout-2009-august-2009/

Dany
@dyvantity

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Nat
7 Sep, 2009

Awesome.

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Angela
7 Sep, 2009

Okay will not be showing the kiddies any of these lol, seriously some are really great though but disturbing:)
Love the one with the semi naked guy don’t know what it has to do with PSP but I will stare at it a little bit longer what is a women to do LOL.

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JBagley
8 Sep, 2009

You can definitely see how their advertising has become more and more controversial over the life of the platforms.

Don’t know if I should be freaked out and stop playing having a look at all of these pics. :)

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Timbronze
8 Sep, 2009

Wow, some seriously disturbing yet mesmorising ad campaigns from Sony. They will certainly turn heads I heads I have no doubt..

Awesome.

Tim

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Dzinepress
8 Sep, 2009

really amazing advertisements.

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James
8 Sep, 2009

Awesome!!!!

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wien
8 Sep, 2009

…very creative

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Stephen
8 Sep, 2009

Awesome collection there. Albeit quite disturbing some of them.

Cheers!

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Ben Rama
8 Sep, 2009

iinspiring an i agree shocking –

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Comet Arcade
8 Sep, 2009

Oh wow, never seen any of these.

Took me a while to get the panties sniffing ad.

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tech2connect
16 Sep, 2009

very creative

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Web Design Singapore
23 Sep, 2009

Haha visually provoking. I like the “man” who is “reborn”.

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design
24 Sep, 2009

Sniffin the undies…

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