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The concept and execution seems cool but I just wanna note in case anyone important is listening that "can you play them all" is one of the weakest taglines I'v

The concept and execution seems cool but I just wanna note in case anyone important is listening that "can you play them all" is one of the weakest taglines I've ever heard.

easytiger 8y ago
It's pretty close to the $15 billion pokemon franchise tagline.
- hardwaresofton 8y ago
  Yeah, but this isn't at all like Pokemon, which is the problem. I thought it was obvious, but my point is that "collecting" games or trying "play all the games" isn't the right tagline for a game platform. Has any established gaming platform that has ever existed (except for maybe the super early ones) made game-collecting a thing? Trying to play every game on a console is a silly and pointless fools errand -- yeah you could do it, but there's no inherent value. At least to me, it seems like the value-add for a system like this is to effortlessly play games with your friends, and then maybe to check out some console exclusives that represent interesting gameplay. Who in their target market wakes up and says to themselves "I need to play every game ever released for this new platform"? They're doing lifestyle segment marketing already, hence the smiling clean-cut millenials sitting and enjoying quality time together, they're encouraging me to want to be like those people, but then I read the line and instantly asked myself "why would I want to do that". Just seems like the marketing team took the wrong turn on the road to being different. Maybe I'm totally wrong, and I'm just one data point, but also, maybe it's that that line that was awkward. [EDIT] - On second thought, my original post was badly phrased. It's not the "weakest tagline I've ever heard", it just seems to massively NOT fit the context/platform/product.
- pbhjpbhj 8y ago
  "Gotta" (got to), is imperative, and vernacular. "Can you" is weak, and enquiring. Very different.
nightcracker 8y ago
Maybe it's a bad translation from "can you beat them all?"
frgewut 8y ago
It's actually a real problem. Most browser games are still Flash - meaning I can't play most of them.
rkachowski 8y ago
It is incredibly awkward and reads like marketing was an afterthought, but I'm pretty sure this is just a bad translation.
invalidusernam3 8y ago
As is the line "Play multiplayer games together", opposed to playing multiplayer games alone?
- everdev 8y ago
  Yeah it's confusing. Is this a way for multiple people to control the same screen?
  - BeefySwain 8y ago
    It is referring to local multiplayer, where multiple people are in the same room, playing with one another, as opposed to playing across the internet.

The concept and execution seems cool but I just wanna note in case anyone important is listening that "can you play them all" is one of the weakest taglines I've ever heard.

easytiger 8y ago

It's pretty close to the $15 billion pokemon franchise tagline.

hardwaresofton 8y ago
Yeah, but this isn't at all like Pokemon, which is the problem. I thought it was obvious, but my point is that "collecting" games or trying "play all the games" isn't the right tagline for a game platform. Has any established gaming platform that has ever existed (except for maybe the super early ones) made game-collecting a thing? Trying to play every game on a console is a silly and pointless fools errand -- yeah you could do it, but there's no inherent value. At least to me, it seems like the value-add for a system like this is to effortlessly play games with your friends, and then maybe to check out some console exclusives that represent interesting gameplay. Who in their target market wakes up and says to themselves "I need to play every game ever released for this new platform"? They're doing lifestyle segment marketing already, hence the smiling clean-cut millenials sitting and enjoying quality time together, they're encouraging me to want to be like those people, but then I read the line and instantly asked myself "why would I want to do that". Just seems like the marketing team took the wrong turn on the road to being different. Maybe I'm totally wrong, and I'm just one data point, but also, maybe it's that that line that was awkward. [EDIT] - On second thought, my original post was badly phrased. It's not the "weakest tagline I've ever heard", it just seems to massively NOT fit the context/platform/product.
pbhjpbhj 8y ago
"Gotta" (got to), is imperative, and vernacular. "Can you" is weak, and enquiring. Very different.

nightcracker 8y ago

Maybe it's a bad translation from "can you beat them all?"

frgewut 8y ago

It's actually a real problem. Most browser games are still Flash - meaning I can't play most of them.

rkachowski 8y ago

It is incredibly awkward and reads like marketing was an afterthought, but I'm pretty sure this is just a bad translation.

invalidusernam3 8y ago

As is the line "Play multiplayer games together", opposed to playing multiplayer games alone?

everdev 8y ago
Yeah it's confusing. Is this a way for multiple people to control the same screen?
- BeefySwain 8y ago
  It is referring to local multiplayer, where multiple people are in the same room, playing with one another, as opposed to playing across the internet.