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2024-11-15 00:10:13| Engadget

These times are very trying and its understandable if someone goes a little off the deep end once in a while. Just like Norman Bates said in Psycho, We all go a little mad sometimes. However, a new Xbox ad campaign has us a little concerned. Microsoft launched a new marketing campaign for its Xbox consoles and cloud gaming service called This is an Xbox. It features posters and commercials with a bunch of different objects like a laptop, a smartphone and a Meta Quest 3 that are all an Xbox. We confirmed with a thorough fact check that all of those objects are not an Xbox. That may sound like overkill but when you live in a world where theres a real chance that the goopy mass voiced by Tim Curry in FernGully might become Secretary of the Interior, were not taking any chances. The commercial is even trippier. It zips between objects like a flat screen TV, an ROG Ally and a laptop while Black Sheeps The Choice is Yours blasts in the background. This time though, it displays the simple sentence This is an Xbox with a secondary clause or imperative statement behind it. Is there some kind of malware virus in the AI software that runs our universe or something? Microsoft, we know this is an ad campaign and that you dont really believe these non-Xbox items are an Xbox. Of course, you want to talk up your cloud gaming service, which is available across all of the devices in the ads. But last I checked, I didn't need an expensive subscription to play games on a regular Xbox. Also this is the internet, a gathering place for conspiracy weavers, liars and neer-do-wells. Reality is hard enough right now without having to debate the merit of what things are. This feels like the kind of stuff that Jobu would pull when she finished decorating the bagel in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Microsoft This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/the-new-xbox-ad-campaign-is-confused-about-what-an-xbox-is-231013374.html?src=rss

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