Who the hell is this Mr. Sony, where does he get off talking about us like this. Does anyone knows where he lives?. I think we should sic MEND on him!

Yes!!! Send another one of our many IMAGE DESTROYERS to go fight SONY for speaking out against Nigerian internet Scammers!!!! Roflmao!!!! Aren't we a delightful bunch in that country?

until we fit make our own game consoles, we'll just bear it

other nations kept quiet until they got independent food, power, nuclear and tech stuff

but the time to be free is still far as yahooze still top charts and uni students can't figure out the psp

kkokoma:

Who the hell is this Mr. Sony, where does he get off talking about us like this. Does anyone knows where he lives?. I think we should sic MEND on him!

LMAO. That would help matters a lot!

let call a spade a spade., truth can be told in any form, stop pretending!, many 9jarian re 419 and spammers, let turn a new leaf, mr inspiragh, am right behind u.

So SONY is justified, abi?

3kay945:

let call a spade a spade., truth can be told in any form, stop pretending!,  many 9jarian re 419 and spammers,  let turn a new leaf,  mr inspiragh, am right behind u.

So where are you from?. . Mother keke!

LIKE I SAID EARLIER


Lets all be realistic.

Yea sony was wrong for the derogatory advert. But at the end of the day our goverment instead of wasting their energy reacting, they should instead focus on rebranding themselves and fixing this country. How can we call our selves Giant of Africa and some of us dont even have one full day of electricity a week, even our national airports experience power cuts and we have brown water coming out of our taps, and have a high percentage of unemployed graduates?.

Instead the nation's money is being embezzled by greedy politicians and goverment officials with their potbellies growing bigger, with houses all over the world, foreign accounts, you name it.

Dora Akinluyi and all other top goverment officials should rebrand them selves before talking about rebranding nigeria.

whoever think am wrong is on a long thing, cos am rite behnd SONY for the ad, i always adore the bitterness of TRUTH.

@3kay945.

For real

mr koolchic,, i am 9ja by birth.,but my attitud is dat of d HEAVEN!

i wont be patriotic and loss HEAVEN,, u too ve 2 consider dat, sign+out,

Hi All,

I have followed with keen interest the various points of view expressed here about the Sony Playstation Ad.
There's merit in most posts here about the advert. However we should not loose sight of the following facts:

1. The advert committed a serious breach by referring to every Nigerian Millionaire as a scammer! Now that clearly is false. While there are alot of millionaires in Nigeria whose source of wealth is dubious, there are also a thousand and one who are doing very legit business and can stand tall anywhere in the world because of their integrity. The late Gani is perfect example. Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, etc are living testimonies.

2. In Nigeria today, part of our problem is that we have become so pauperised that people now worship wealth not minding how it is acquired. How else do you describe situation where our musicians(are they really musicians?) glorify scam with songs like Yahoozie, Maga don Pay, I go Chop your $, etc ? Fraudsters are given chieftancy titles, sit in front row at churches and mosques, are (s)elected into public offices/Govt, etc.
When we allow situations like these to persist we create the impression that corruption is ok.

3. How have we treated those caught in the acts of corruption? Painfully, we tribalise it. He's being persecuted because he's from the wrong tribe!!! Rather than us rising together to condemn corruption and hold Govt officials accountable to the people, we become ethnic champions even for criminals stealing our commonwealth!

4. Is scam in particular and corruption in general peculiar to Nigeria? The answer is a big NO! Recall the US state Governor (Illinois, Obama's home state who was caught while attempting to sell the senate seat Obama vacated) remember Madoff, ENRON corporation, etc Same in UK, and elsewhere including Japan. The difference is the degree of abhortion the society expresses and the CORRECTIVE ACTIONS taken. As a people we still lag behind in these aspects.

Lets take the SONY advert as a clarion call for us as a nation to wake up and sanitise our society. We must make it unattractive for criminals. We must make our leaders to become accountable to us the people. We must show that the Ganis' the Achebes' the Soyinkas' the Aminu Kanos' are not rare in our midst.

Finally, SONY as a global corporation failed in Advertising ethics with that advert. You do not generalise about a Nation the way they did. Do we now say every Nigerian is a great footballer because of Okocha/Kanu?

sony has made a terrible mess this time!

3kay945:

mr koolchic,, i am 9ja by birth.,but my attitud is dat of d HEAVEN!

and that is gud to the eye ryt? go and stay in heaven now and leave our country for us

if sony likes, let them spend all their money on ads about nigerians and nigeria, the scammers dont care! they will still go on and scam the stupid whities,

and akinyuli? keep ranting! are u not part of the fraud? nonsense woman. madam rebranding keep remranding, the non-rebrandable.

if sony likes, let them spend all their money on ads about nigerians and nigeria, the scammers dont care! they will still go on and scam the stupid whities,

and akinyuli? keep ranting! are u not part of the fraud? nonsense woman. madam rebranding keep rebranding, the non-rebrandable.

i saw the commercial, it was hilarious, until i realized they were making fun of nigeria.  needless to say the americans beside me kept on laughing and didnt really care.

over reliance of foreign things. Why not we develop our country first

This issue was earlier posted in another (wrong) section - see link below; very unprofessional for Sony to do such a derogatory AD.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-319930.0.html

I AM SO SICKENED THAT NO ONE TALKS ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE BERNIE MADOFF! OR KENNETH LAY. OR JEFF SKILLING.

Or the Worldcom guy (what's his name again)?

We all know that a lot of substandard goods are made in China. WHy did they not direct ads negatively profiling China? They know very well that if they try it, China will blow them off the world map with their nuclear weapons.

Or let them try negatively profiling radical Islam and see what would happen. Sony's executives would be lucky not to have a Fatwa placed on them.

They just pick on countries like ours who can't do much but give slaps on the wrist. A big shame!

Sony should go and burn in hell. I am done buying their products!

yeah, exactly! why not china?!

First it was district 9 http://www.district9movie.com/  the next was Nigerian millionaire.

What is next sony?  

if we all should unite and boycott their goods, they will learn never to toy with
nigerians again!

All these people just dey cry for truth we Sony dey talk. Truth e bitter well well.
How many millionaire promising emails do I get that are NOT from Nigeria. NONE.
The ad is funny and tongue in cheek.

Ye ye govt no go fight the tin from the source, na to
Cry, Cry, Cry, then tomorrow go dance to Yahoozee and Maga don pay.

by the way
PS3, it only does Everything.
Now $299.
Me I don get my own.

[size=14pt]what nonsense are u people talking about??
whatever sony said about nigeria is true , what kind of irresponsible govt cannot provide light for its people while they light up their aso rock rooms 24-7 with generator,,,,what idiotic govt cannot provide good jobs for willing graduates until they turn to criminals and militants to eat their daily bread,
i know how many months i walked about in pains in kaduna  streets looking for job with my second class upper. nonsense and ingredients government

dora no make me vex o. because i like u as a person , but ur govt is disgracingly irresponsible , period. the naija govt is a disgrace worldwide. sony pls do more advert to insult and disrespect them , maybe that way shame go dey catch them  small small,, nonsense and useless government wey no fit provide light and jobs! pls bring sony playstation 4 i will buy 5 consoles ! nonsense [/size]

stagger:

I AM SO SICKENED THAT NO ONE TALKS ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE BERNIE MADOFF! OR KENNETH LAY. OR JEFF SKILLING.

Or the Worldcom guy (what's his name again)?

As someone rightly pointed out earlier, there are fraudsters in every country. . . only that their number, the rate at which they work, and how often they're persecuted greatly differs from our beloved Nigeria, and you can't deny that . . .  can you?

stagger:

We all know that a lot of substandard goods are made in China. WHy did they not direct ads negatively profiling China? They know very well that if they try it, China will blow them off the world map with their nuclear weapons.

Oh, I didn't realise Sony has now become a geographical entity.

stagger:

Sony should go and burn in hell. I am done buying their products!

Then what? . . . Sony is going to pack up?  Funny fella. 

u want 2 ignore china product?, remembr dat majority of 9ja re enjoyn their product despite d low quality, is it drugs, electronic(baba), wears, etc, the cheap prize make 9jarian going dey cant avoid the original. if u like DONT BUY CHINCO, many re dyn to buy,

ok. shameless man. go buy the ps3 bacuase na $299. it's people like you
that makes sony to continue insulting us!

do u think everyone here use laptop or computer to post?, many cnt avoid it, nd those dat ve couldnt get connectd because of high subscritn rate., thank to china made phone, it does what ur laptop can do on NL atleast most, without kobo, it all depend on how brillant u re, i no beg u 2read my post o o

"You can't believe everything you read on the internet, otherwise I'll be a Nigerian millionaire by now".

That my friend in English,  is not an insult to me.
Do you want me to do a phrase by phrase interpretation for you?

stagger:


We all know that a lot of substandard goods are made in China. WHy did they not direct ads negatively profiling China? They know very well that if they try it, China will blow them off the world map with their nuclear weapons.

And we all know that Sony's PS3 is made in China, what else??