Sony has admitted that a blog, supposedly created by teens in order to help people get a PSP as a gift, is in fact, a Sony marketing ploy.
The website recently surfaced offering readers the views of some teenagers who wrote in an odd way and were united by the desire to acquire a PSP for Christmas. Visitors to alliwantforxmasisapsp.com soon realized that no real teenager could manage to write in such a confused and tragically hip way and questions were soon asked about the origins of the blog. The fact that the list of banned words in the forums included the terms viral and marketing also did little to help Sony's attempts at stealth. The blog writers attempted to convince visitors to use T-shirts in an attempt to convince others to buy them a PSP for Christmas.
Visitors to the website forums quickly revealed that it was the creation of marketing firm Zipatoni, while by strange coincidence the same firm employed one of the people appearing on the website. What seemed to disappoint Sony fans the most was the aggressive way in which the company, at first, attempted to protect its secret; deleted forum entries, banned words and phrases and fake comments were just some of the tactics which alienated visitors. The website had the surreal appeal of grandma trying to be hip at the Christmas dinner table but it failed terribly as a marketing ploy.
Sony has since apologized about the effort although the site appears to be offline now. The official Sony statement claims, Busted. Nailed. Snagged. As many of you have figured out (maybe our speech was a little too funky fresh???), Peter isn't a real hip-hop maven and this site was actually developed by Sony. Guess we were trying to be just a little too clever. From this point forward, we will just stick to making cool products, and use this site to give you nothing but the facts on the PSP.
When asked if the website could be considered an insult by Sony fans a company spokesperson said, Sony just released the most advanced console ever developed, so I doubt seriously that anyone would think we are underestimating our consumers. We will leave the comments to that response to you... Oh and because the site was such an absolute gem, the kind people at UK:Resistance have created a mirror which you can reach by following the download tab above.

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Of course this happened. Sony needs something to boost their poor PSP sales.
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I Like Sony, almost all my medie equip here is Sony, except consoles, games and every crap Sony tried to sell meh D:<
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sad, sad sony... really pityfull
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"so I doubt seriously that anyone would think WE ARE UNDERESTIMATING OUR CONSUMERS."WOW!
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ha, again MG news is aged up to 3 days. NEWS? Was covered on slashdot 2-5 days ago. Nice going MG!
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you'd think that they'd have enough money to employ marketing firms who are smart enough to not sound so f**king corny and obvious. i bet a coupla ppl got fired and deservedly so.
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I hope sony bankrupts and starts producing only games like sega did, because they make kick *** games but poor consoles. They should leave the hardware part to real console makers like Microcrap and Nintendawgs.
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just cause yall gamers cant afford a ps3 or psp, dont hate. just settle with the crappy wii60
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still a post from a fan boy:"just cause yall gamers cant afford a ps3 or psp, dont hate. just settle with the crappy wii60"this xmas there is no ps3 anyway as i live in europe. will get a 360 in new year and a wii for my boy(**** preorders). when the ps3 is out ill avoid it as it seems to be nowhere near how it should be.playstation days are over its just a mater of how long it takes sony to realize. mybet 2 or 3 more massivly hyped disapointing attempts. late im sure
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figures, sony are still the cheap ******** they always were.
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Sigh.. Another cheap s**t trick-ploy by Sony
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I think it was totalyawsomefunky hip and shizzel :P
Sony Fake PSP Blog Busted
Umm... How was this 'Busted'? They admitted to it.
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People are really trying way too hard to find things to hate about Sony - 90% of the "Lies" Sony told they never said in the first place!Well since I make more than a video store clerk I'm enjoying my 1080p HD gaming, and laugh at my next door neighbours controllers falling out of their hands and breaking their windows.
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they were busted because visitors realised that he site was a sham, they were forced to admit it...
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Yet one more reason why people are not trusting anything sony says.allow i'm still waiting for a claim by sony that the ps3 makes coffee.
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and gives Bl*w jobs !! XD
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What is it with fanboys and claiming that Sony and PS3 critics "cant afford" a PS3 so they are "jealous". You would find that the majority of gamers can afford any machine, but they just settle for which machine/machines suite them best. I have an Xbox 360 and am thinking of getting a Wii, but this doesnt mean I "cant afford" a PS3. Its simply a matter of personal choice, so I wish alot of you would grow up and take on a more logical view.
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PSP owns but f**k sony for making new firmware! Now I have to spend an extra 100 bucks on a mod chip :(
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i loved that kid's "rap""PSP! PSP! PSP!" *dances around like a ****** on crack*douchebag.
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I totally 100% agree with O_O.I to have a 360, Wii, and a DS. The PS3 sucks and the PSP sucks. Played both. I love nintendo for there party/fun games. Sony is going lower and lower. They can't even make something brand new.
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U guys r all tards, sony didnt care about the blogs getting customers, the 'scandal' is whats giving them all the publicity.
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youre all f**king geeks
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HAHA FU Sony! Hope you fail and burn in hell for makin us all suffer
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through ps3 is not what it could be as it is based on the same power pc 256kb cache only cores as the x360 does... it still is the best console
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ps3 has 7 cores,a hdd,a large media device,a decent gfx card and fast memory.Not anything special but it will have some nice games
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Is OK if I post in my own site that Microdoft has been buying fake news sites so it can bash Sony because they make products better than theirs? At least Sony makes research, Microsoft only copies and not even this can do it right :(
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anonymous at 8:58 have you been living under a rock...?have you read all that s**t about sony coping nintendo and so on, and how they claimed they made 3d first and everyone else copied... hahah thats pretty dumb claim sony.and the fact sony products arn't good at all, they totally SUCK!(i'd go into detail on how every product they have is terrible but i think "suck" sums it up)panasonic makes better stuff then sony and thats a fact.FACE IT SONY, you guys are in trouble, you were in trouble ever since you back stabbed nintendo, you hyped so much for the ps2 and did not deliever. lol if your ps3 doesn't do well then i have no idea how your gonna make it with your other s**tty products.
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Dear Ed,First of all, NO ONE lives under a rock, so asking someone if they live under a rock makes you look like a ******. Secondly, the PS2 wooped every other console on the market, so there was obviously millions of people who felt that it delivered more than enough. I'm a PSP owner, and I'm loving it :)
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to live under a rock, that's a metaphor. and you, anonymous, do live under one. better yet, i'll say you live under a rock on the moon.and you're homosexual.and nobody likes you for being a fanboy.******.
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OMG, Sony made this?It's freakin pathetic! XD
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if i was leader of nintendo id sue the s**t out of sony. if i remember right, the nintendo virtual boy was the first attempt of bringing 3d games. no im not a little ***** *** fanboy but i like any console as long as they have good games. hell sony needs to retire and let sega take it once again. sega had great consoles."Secondly, the PS2 wooped every other console on the market" thats a fact. the gamecube just sucked and the xbox was alright. but the reason ps2 whooped all other consoles was because "everyone loved the ps1 so much they just had to have a ps2". and at the launch of the ps2 they had good games already out. while gamecube and xbox didnt have much.
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"if i remember right, the nintendo virtual boy was the first attempt of bringing 3d games"Then you remember very incorrectly, the Virtualboy wasn't 3d in any way. the PSone was the first conceptual console to bring true 3d to the market in 1990, after 5 years in development they bought it out.
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