PC World Forced to Pull Playstation 3 Ad
by Wesley Johnson ~ May 7th, 2008. Filed under: .PC World, the computer superstore in the U.K., not the magazine, was forced to pull a Playstation 3 advertisement due to its claim that the system could play all Playstation 2 releases. The Advertising Standards Authority deemed the ad “misleading” and instigated the aforementioned ad pulling.
The store defended the ad by saying that the Playstation 3 was able to play “80 percent” of the Playstation 2 stable of games, and, future patches will allow it to play 100 percent. This, however, didn’t appease the ASA.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:47 am
sooooooooo basically they lied.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
pretty much. i dunno why it seems making things backwards compatible is so difficult on these new machines. argh!