Win an Xbox 360! From Sony!
by Ed Stasick 
{ Sep 21st 2006 at 6:00PM }
This kind of stuff just makes me smile. Sometimes big companies have their arms in so many businesses, that it's hard for the left hand to know what the right one is doing. For Sony this is double hard because they not only make the technology to play and enable all kinds of content (Blu-Ray, UMD, ATRAC, Mini-disc, etc), they also create the content too (Sony Pictures, Sony Online Entertainment, Sony BMG Music, etc). In those scenarios, you're going to occassionaly take your eye off the ball. Which is what looks like happened with Sony Music's promotional contest for their new Jessica Simpson album. The grand-prize? An Xbox 360.
I would imagine that our hardcore fanboys might use the feedback option at the bottom of this promotional site to let Sony know that they should be giving away a PS3 (or at least a PSP) instead of teaming up with the competition The feedback link takes you directly to Sony Music.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Aragorn @ Sep 21st 2006 6:16PM
Well you do have to remember that while many big companies are made up of individual sister/parent companies, they don't always have any kinda of business with eachother.
for example... if there was a show on fox that was cancelled, but went straight to dvd via 21st century fox... the fox channel doesn't get a dime of that (per tim minier... brainchild behind firefly, wonderfalls, & the inside).
Ed @ Sep 21st 2006 6:41PM
I don't think we are talking about profit sharing here. To use your own TV analogy, this is akin to FOX TV doing a special promotion for a Paramount Pictures release (I'm not talking about commercials). This is why you only see FOX TV air special promotions for 20th Century Fox movie releases (as you see all the time with their "see 10 minutes of kick-ass footage" promotions they've done with movies like X-men 3 and Day After Tomorrow.
Aragorn @ Sep 21st 2006 6:53PM
Which is a valid point, but if you have a better explanation, let me know :p
JakeshDaddy @ Sep 21st 2006 9:58PM
They don't want to damage their music division by having it associated with inferior consoles like the PS3 and PSP.
Andir2.0 @ Sep 21st 2006 10:02PM
Is it just me or does that cover make her look less sexy and more evil?
um... @ Sep 21st 2006 11:21PM
they're doing it because jessica simpson is xbox live's "artist of the month"
the_pwnerer @ Sep 23rd 2006 12:09AM
Jakesh Daddy,
If the PS3 is an inferior console, does that make the Xbox 360 major crappola or what? Your point doesn't make sense anyway, since they're giving away an even worse one, dipshit.
diction @ Sep 26th 2006 1:08PM
Inferior is a comparative implying the XBOX360 is a SUPERIOR console to the INFERIOR PS3.
The more you know . . .