{"id":2050,"date":"2007-10-04T14:09:29","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T20:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/2007\/10\/04\/a-good-example-of-marketing-demonstrating-its-irrelevance\/"},"modified":"2007-10-04T14:09:29","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T20:09:29","slug":"a-good-example-of-marketing-demonstrating-its-irrelevance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/a-good-example-of-marketing-demonstrating-its-irrelevance\/","title":{"rendered":"A good example of marketing demonstrating its irrelevance"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are times when marketing people shouldn’t be allowed to speak. This is one of those times. Here’s a small portion of an interview<\/a> with Insomniac Games’ marketing director, Ryan Schneider. Insomniac is the developer of the Ratchet & Clank<\/em> games.<\/p>\n

Kikizo: You’ve said that some inspiration is taken from games and movies, but have you found influences of Ratchet in other games?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ryan Schneider:<\/strong> Yeah, I think that it’s flattering… well OK, first of all, there was a PlayStation 2 game which I won’t name, that was more or less a direct rip-off of Ratchet and Clank. There’s evidence all around us I think, of certain games that have borrowed from Ratchet and Clank. One that we’re even extremely flattered by is Super Mario Galaxy, with their spherical worlds; we did spherical worlds in Going Commando, and Up Your Arsenal. It would be amazing to think that Miyamoto-san thought that was so cool that he wanted to incorporate it into Mario Galaxy. Granted, he’s doing it in a different way, but it’s still a spherical world, so it’s flattering to see those sorts of things.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes. It was awfully nice of Insomniac Games to invent planets<\/em>. Hey, Ryan – the standard globe<\/a> called: it wants you to shut up.<\/p>\n

Are you kidding me? Spherical worlds?<\/em> Next they’ll be saying how cool it is that every other game in existence utilizes their concept of sentient beings<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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