How would you convince someone to buy a gaming console?<\/p>\n
“Hey there, buy this console because its graphics are, like, really sweet, and it dispenses ice-cream when you finish a level.” (Sold! – Ed<\/em>)<\/p>\n While this may sound as if the speaker has gone bananas (b-a-n-a-n-a-s), it is arguably better than some of the slogans used by console manufacturers over the years.<\/p>\n Here are some of the worst console slogans ever farted out of the brains of marketing professionals.<\/p>\n “If you want a Saturn, your head must be in Uranus”<\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, Sony made a Uranus joke, that was the level of advertising in the days of the Sega Saturn and early PlayStation.<\/p>\n “This is living”<\/strong><\/p>\n Used to advertise the PlayStation 3, \u201cthis is living\u201d was rather lame. If paying several thousand rand for a console in 2006 was living, then I must have been in a coma during those years. Wait, didn’t I buy a PS3?<\/p>\n Sony has had a long, long history of really bad marketing ideas<\/a> – so this is not really a big surprise.<\/p>\nPlayStation<\/h3>\n