• I like how it's the player they're highlighting here, although the commercial is stock full of familiar faces and the ad was for PS3. I wish they had the old games though...

• His voice broke in just the right place, he didn't know if they were going to tell him to shut up or just ignore him.

• i wouldve enjoyed it. As i wouldve enjoyed one for xbox, i really have no filter on the company id like to have seen. I really wish the three companies would drop all their differences, and get together to make one super awesome "Xbox vs Playstation vs Nintendo" game. I know that this is pretty much a far cry, for that would technically be creating a monopoly (which is illegal), as well as the cost to create that game would be massive. Wishful thinking i suppose. A man can dream.

• Thats a question i myself would like to know. but as of right now, no one has responded. The Bartender had a burnt looking face, that has to be a defining quality.

• (Toward the general discussion, here...) Speaking as a female gamer myself, I actually didn't feel excluded by the advertisement-when it comes to the games they showed.  I actually loved it-got to be a silly, giddy little nerd grinning at all the references to many of my favorite games[' series](BioShock, Portal, Infamous, Assassin's Creed, Dead Space, etc.).  The only games[' series] I ever have had little interest or dislike for(that I saw in here) are Final Fantasy and War games. Not all girls play casual games, I believe it's a mostly cultural reason that there aren't more that play "hardcore" or "normal"(if that counts as a group, I don't have a better term) games.  Casual games bore me to death(and ones like Farmville disgust me), usually-too simple, too happy, no real characters, no story(or a painful one, if there is any), etc.So, to be honest, I don't know if I'd be happy seeing that sort of suggestion through an advertisement-it might be -more- alienating opposed to less.  It'd drive me insane: obnoxious characters/games I don't like, boring characters/games I don't care about, and then, hypothetically:"To Ashley!" "To Ashley!" "To Ashley!"(Or some other, generic name.)Yeah, I'd be gritting my teeth in anger and annoyance.  Or groaning and avoiding the ad as much as I could.The worst thing, on alienation, to a typical, female gamer(that doesn't -just- play Sims, Peggle, Tetris, um...other..."casual" games?) in this advertisement is the fact it's "to" a guy.  Which sucks, but I don't expect much else(and, if it were to be as effectively cool and to both genders, they'd have to say "to them," or something).  And I certainly prefer it over Sony presenting the assumption a chick only plays _____.Besides..there's not really a lot of casual games with Sony-that I know of.On how much I love this commercial, though:The Little Sister! Chell! Cole! Ezio! That guy from Dead Space!My God, this is so awesome.  If they could have just added a vault dweller, I think this would have made my cruddy, piled-with-work week suddenly the best week this month. Points to Sony for making a commercial that makes me smile instead of groan. 

• That wasn't David Hayter as Solid Snake. Just letting you know.

• Well technically, you were making his father look like a perv.

• I wish I could say this was the first time I heard a room full of people chanting my name... ...it is good to be Michael.

• I had problems with that, too.

• Sort of on the way! Cole vs. Vampire invasion of New Marais this October! I wonder how/if they're going to connect that into the inF2 plot...

• They would have to film it in standard def, too. ooooooh, burn... {g}

• ATTTHHHEEEENNNAAAAA!!! Happens to be plot relevant to the commercial. {g}

• Wow . . . I loved it!  I hope Sony takes this concept and runs with it.  I'd like to see all kinds of trips to the Play Station Bar where all kinds of things are celebrated- girl gamers, new games and characters, even game bosses and bad guys.  Hell, I half expected a bar fight to break out and all kinds of crazy shit happen.  Who wouldn't want to see more of that?

• Brilliant.

• So THAT'S what the hell the commercial is about! I've been watching it for a couple weeks on Hulu but they've only been showing up until the door is opened for some reason.

• STFU.  How nice. Yup.  Our generation is a bunch of self important shitheads.  Thanks for drilling the point home. It doesn't matter which game he's from. The point is they're having a character based on real WWII vets raising a glass to a kid that sits at home and plays video games.  That's pretty poor taste and is endemic of what's wrong with this generation.  Lemme guess, you thought Scott Pilgrim was an awesome character without any faults?  ugh.

• I came here to say the same thing: I smell this week's contest, "What would the characters from _your_ games say?"

• KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN

• There should be a topless robot contest about this... not just about our experiences with ps3 games (from the characters point of view of course) but from all platforms we have played

• Rob, I noticed how you didn't even mention Lightning.  Come on, give your favorite game some love.  My video game characters would hate me because I neglect them most of the time... either not playing a game for months or getting to the very end and quitting them altogether. 

• Three replies to get it right when you can just edit your messages. Perhaps you should learn something about technology before you go cussing at others.

• Or alternately, he's from Call of Duty/Medal of Honour/one of many generic WWII shooters and please STFU.

• Oh I know that it's stupid to expect that sort of thing, and it makes me sad. I'm a consumer of video games too, and I'm sure we share a love for many of the same games. I wasn't attempting to be confrontational, just sad that since there are less women in the market that it means (to some people) that we don't matter.

• The female version could go so far with a Tetris block and some Angry Birds.  "To Jennifer! She saved our Farm...ville!!" Kidding, of course.  If men do outnumber the women who play the sorts of games shown in the commercial to some degree, the women still make up a huge portion that is often underestimated.  All humans enjoy exploding stuff! Even though my Farmville mention was a joke, I imagine if you take that type of game into account, women gamers probably outnumber guys by a landslide. No harm in advertisements embracing the ladies!  Also no harm in enjoying a clever ad that doesn't.  We still love that you play games, girls. 

• Anyway,  I'm pretty damn impressed by the costumes where.  There's some CGI mixed in, but mostly it's movie quality costuming.  And holy crap I want some of those.

• I dunno..  One thing is bugging the fuck out of me. We have the main guy as a character who's a World War II vet who was on Omaha beach... toasting a glass... to a twerp who plays video games all day. Holy fuck.  Yeah... My generation fucking sucks. We're got these ads pandering to us practically saying we're just as good playing video games as the guys our age who actually fought the Nazis in World War II?  Yeah.. fuck that. At least Solid Snake is from a fictional war. To bring up a real battle in these games and have a soldier from it toast a guy who plays Call of Duty?  That's some poor taste right there.  One big problem in an otherwise amazing commercial.  Maybe include the CoD guys there, but don't go shouting out about Omaha beach like it's just another fictional video game battle.

• Yes, it sure would be interesting to see a group of mostly mute characters trying to communicate.

• My favorite is Cole MacGrath. InFamous 3, please!

• Whoa there!  Who said anything about anti-woman conspiracies, women's rights activists, and which games are "real" games?  You are extrapolating a whole lot from someone mentioning a simple interest in women, a SIGNIFICANT portion of gamers whether they're half or not, being recognized in a male dominated community. I mean, is it really so hard to accept that it gets overwhelming when the media and other aspects of socialization says you're an outlier because of your gender?  Maybe you don't notice the gender and race, but a person who already feels marginalized sure does. . .

• Yes. And it's glorious. 

• I can't help but feel that this commercial was at least partially inspired by someone playing Poker Night at the Inventory. Same basic concept

• I wish they'd make one that thanks Andrew but...yeah...also doubtful. :(  I think they COULD have done a little better by going with a gender-neutral name like "Alex," but then I realized that I would still feel a little bad, since any name that's not mine would leave me unrepresented (as much as I love the ad otherwise).

• SONY

• son... oooops

• Actually, yes, there is, BUT... for the sake of argument, let's just consider the following. Cut out all iPhone games and hey, let's throw out The Sims, you know, for shits and giggles. Two things that I would largely argue don't even count as video games, nor are the people who play solely those sorts of things actually gamers. Not to mention that neither of which are represented or advertised in this commercial. If the gap of raw information wasn't large enough for you before, this turns it into the grand canyon. Regardless, point still stands. The fact that the issue of women being "under-represented" in a video game commercial was even called into question over this is ridiculous. The fact that the gamer in the commercial happened to be a male does not imply some sort of crazy anti-woman conspiracy on Sony's part. The message of this commercial isn't that women aren't gamers, if that's the conclusion you're reading off of it, it's because that's the conclusion you wanted to find.  I'm all for equality and women's rights, but at some point things are going too far. If this commercial featured a girl--let's call her Michelle, I can guarantee you that NOT A SINGLE SOUL would give a shit or even feel the need to complain. 

• SHUT UP! "Bitch bitch bitch, cry cry cry, poooooor meeeee, soney just doesnt get me..." Again, SHUT UP!!!!

• I don't think it's activism, just both sides of the coin really. Female gamers are pretty rad, so why not? But regardless, I doubt they'd reshoot the entire commercial just for that. 

• Okay, show of hands, who would be really happy if Nintendo did a commercial like this? Because I know I would.

• Kratos should be thankful he's not on an 80s platformer. Practically EVERYONE misses those jumps there.

• Some of mine: Cloud: Can you believe that guy tried to take on Sephiroth without Knights of Round? Taven: That's nothing. How many times did he kill me, just for a chest full of koins? You don't have to be in story mode to get koins!

• I expected a lot more killing.

• That's not the lyric. Also, Kratos is in the Uncanny Valley now. They couldn't just paint the guy?

• I'm not gonna lie. This commercial actually brought a tear to my eye

• Well now that you mention it, dogs ARE under represented.

• Am I the only one who wishes his name was Michael? I'm thinking about getting it changed.

• Oh yeah- Kratos would definitely smack me around for all the jumps I made him miss, and for the many, many times he got cut up trying to climb the pillar out of Hades.

• RICHARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD!!!

• This is awesome. best commercial I've ever seen. Xd   My characters would be like "She left me standing there for like 4 hours while she fell asleep!! 

• Does anyone know if the woman at the booth near the start (where the soldiers leave their weapons) and the bartender are meant to be characters from certain games? I recognise many of the characters in this, but not those two.

• Michael teabagged me while shouting a racial slur into his mic. Besides that I'm pretty sure he's lag switching. 

• I envision an alternate version of this with a bunch of game villains hanging out in a hole in the wall bar playing poker and ranting about the time Michael just busted in and fucked up their shit.

• Thanks Rob for the props! I'd really like a follow up for this; Drake: "That idiot killed me jumping off a moving train" Cole: "He had me kill thousands in exchange for power" Athena: "He spent two hours on a sex mini-game than fighting Zeus." Soldier: "When I saw my brothers-in-arms fall before me, he made me bend over their dead bodies several times as to seem as they are performing an act of fellatio on me." Bartender: "To Xxxsniperwolf13042xxX..... Seriously, FUCK THAT GUY!!!"

• They really didn't need to make Kratos CGI, I could see why the Little Sister might be tricky, but he'd look fine as a guy in make-up. Anyway, it was good. I still love Drake even though he's talking to fucking Lightning.

• Actually, no. There's no male majority in gaming. That's just what all the adverts and such invariably show.

• This is one of the reasons women's rights activists just drive me nuts. Why can't things just be what they were made to be? Does everything have to have an alternate version with a woman? With a black person? With a dog?  Can't we just take the commercial for what it is? Demographics show that most gamers are males. Sony is going to appeal to their core audience. Michael may have been the first thing that comes to mind, and for good reason, because it's what makes the most sense. But no, you're right, Sony should have been pandering to insecure women who feel they aren't getting equal treatment because of a male character in a commercial.  A lot of this was sarcasm, I know that's hard to detect through text, but I hope you understand that what I'm saying is that you're being irrational and outright stupid to expect that sort of thing.

• Sony just raised the Cosplay ante by a bajillion.

• I'm kinda worried about what my Sam Gideon would say to the other guys regarding me when playing Vanquish. "I know right? I mean, learn to use other guns, for god's sake! Really! It's cool with me if he stuck me with the Disc Launcher and Laser once in a while. But noooooooooo! He's GOT to go with the machine gun/super machine gun/rocket launcher combo through the ENTIRE. FREAKING. GAME! Oh and don't even get me started at how much he sucked on using my Dash skills. What a moron!" ....yeah.

• Michael is my nemesis MICHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEELLLLLLLL!!!!!!

• This is simply fantastic. I even got a little teary-eyed when that soldier finally spoke up. I tell you guys, Sony has the best console commercials out there. No hate for the 360, PC or Wii guys, but these just blow the other ones out of the park.

• This is fantastic. :D On a related note, has anyone seen the commercial with Nathan Drake cheerfully hawking Subway?

• It's a pity Sony focuses so much on cutesy advertising and not so much on FEATURES. I have a PS3 and am looking for the best price to unload it. It's beyond stupid how locked up the box is and I am not talking about pirating or breaking anything. Example: Can I get a fourth visualization ever? EVER? I mean seriously... this box 'does everything' except more than 3 visualizations... and Amazon Instant Video. Rant over.

• http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/ is an awesome comic, and relevant to this post :D Read it!

• Yeah I was going to say, don't you notice the terrible lipsyncing? Nolan North isnt that huge, david hayter has bigger eyes and a different nose, and oh god the infamous guy is the short little prick from the killing and mad men, not some musclebound guy.

• The ice cream truck outside the bar with the music playing is a nice touch

• That's just dubbing yo.

• I love how Drake is hitting on Lightning lol...but yeah excellent commercial. I would love to buy Snake a drink; but he'd probably bitch me out for making him look like a perv by using the cam to ogle Eva in her cinema scenes in MGS3.

• Awesome, they did a really good job on a lot of those costumes. I'm pretty sure that's not David Hayter in the Snake getup though, just him dubbing the guy.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3k0yJB6IVE This reminds me of those old dreamcast commericals

• That was insanely good.

• I wonder if they will put out an alternate ad that thanks a female gamer... hopefully... doubtful. 

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