PS3 US Commercial..creepy?

I can usually figure out the meaning behind abstract imagery in commercials, but I'm at a total loss with this one...what exactly is Sony trying to say here?

http://www.youtube.com/v/n_893pvEFzE

God knows.

I'm pretty sure the last round of Playstation ads (either for PS2 or PSOne) were equally bizarre.

[edit] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1HwY0ljgu0

For the PS3 ad, this says that the game's you play on PS3 will mess your kids up and make them insane (i.e. the insane laugh of the baby doll).

Maybe the PS2 ad was suggesting how the XBox was such a bulky machine and could cause harm if fallen onto a child - after all, it does mention this in the XBox manual. Just a guess :-)

It makes the baby's tears go away so it seems to be a positive message.

Look it's the first Nintendo commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oFvYokMSIo&NR

"Batteries not included" :)

It reminds me '2001: a space odissey'...after smoking something very good!

haha that's quite funny and dumb at the same time. They should have just asked A.C.Clarke if he minds them showing it in the moon like an obelisk and made a really cool advert.

To me, it seems like sony suggests that only dummy kids should buy it... I mean, they do treat us like dummys, and think we're kids.

And while we're at it, we should stop our tears and dry our eyes!

Thats what I see, a crytic piss take of some sort!

Dabz

P.S. And I'm drunk at the moment, so it's probably right! :)

Probably stems from retarded governments like in Aus, who quite openly state that adults don't play video games.

omg, you didn't get batteries with the nintendo robot, what cheap skates!

oh, and now I've got to try to sleep after watching that PS3 ad, thanks.

Huh! That is one strange Ad... It's as bad as the new PSP one here in the UK where it goes on to say something on the lines of "PSP, it's like watching portable carpet" or something equally silly.

It's delightfully creepy and I like watching it.

But... it doesn't do anything to promote the PS3.

For that reason alone, I'm going to stick with the

opinion of "Wtf".

This one interests me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq0bhrHhqN4

I was thinking "Hm... not a bad commercial" until that last bit.
I dunno, somehow them saying their game console is Smarter Than Me the Customer (well, not me) drove me off.
Weird, huh?

I seem to remember them calling me a dummy before, as well.
It may very well be true, but I'm sure other people would not appreciate it, and I don't need to be reminded!

Besides, them using multi-tasking as a selling point for the PS3's processor is overdone and not special in the slightest.

Hell, a DS can do two tasks synchronously!
Eg, video playback:
Moonshell does audio decoding on the Arm7 processor and video on the Arm9.

This introduces a problem called the race condition, where one thread gets too far ahead of the other (audio and video desynchronise). It will be interesting to see this with the PS3.
Probably won't happen because the hardware is bigger and better than the DS's (the DS is pretty simple) and the developers have big budgets, but having that many cores at once could get rather ugly with even the slightest imperfection.

There's definitely some neat stuff going on inside that thing...

I had many different thoughts about the message in this commercial, but one has stuck with me - the doll isn't going to be the favourite toy anymore.
It's really hard to extract anything remotely pro-PS3 out of it though.
Did the PS3's power radiate and essentially create life in the doll?
Is the doll showing all the different emotions you'll experience when playing the PS3?

hmm.. its a creepy ad though, thats for sure.

Well if it wasn't because I wasn't gonna get one anyway, that just made up my mind. No way am I buying something that will affect otherwise inanimate objects to the degree displayed here.

Sony is attempting to create a memorable ad by playing on shock value. Nothing more. It usually works but sometimes doesn't produce desired results. The weirder the better some believe.

Personally I think this style of advertising is condescending to people with above average intelligence.

Maybe the meaning is just lost in translation? Continental Circus anyone?

The most clever commercial I've ever seen is the one where a woman gives birth to her baby, the baby flies out of her and out the window. As it is flying through the air it is aging. It finally grows old and plummets into it's grave head first. Awesome! I wish I could find the video but I don't remember what the ad was for.

@markd: I loved that too, felt "gamerish", though I dislike xbox :D
It's one I will remember though.
Apparently it was deemed offensive in the US - or so I've heard.

I think they're trying to be all archetypal and symbolic and evoke emotions somehow.

That one of the crying baby doll is wierd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhKdfsYgrU

I think that's it... I'm at work and can't check (filtered).

yeah, thats the one.