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[gokurho]

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[Magic Carpet]

I want to play using the screen on the inside.

 

[Negotiator101]

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That's incredible, what is producing that image?

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

That's incredible, what is producing that image?

The outside of the building is wrapped in a massive LED screen

 

[SmokedMeat]

That's sphere's so fucking cool.

Should be a giant eyeball for Halloween

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Something else funny I saw the sphere doing

 

[ReBurn]

That's sphere's so fucking cool.

Should be a giant eyeball for Halloween

Imagine seeing a giant eyeball watching your plane as you land in Vegas

 

[dorkimoe]

As cool as it is… it took what… a week to become a giant ad?

 

[adamsapple]

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Imagine seeing a giant eyeball watching your plane as you land in Vegas

 

[EverydayBeast]

I understand the point of the sphere but Xbox and Microsoft is lost if they don't release a new gears of war now it could get ugly.

 

[Draugoth]

"Power your Dreams"

The Dreams:​

 

[DavidGzz]

Keanu never looked so breathtaking.

 

[reinking]

It is hard to get excited for more ways to push products on us but that dome is cool as hell.

 

[Negotiator101]

The outside of the building is wrapped in a massive LED screen

amazing, how much did that cost.

 

[systemr123]

Lots of dreams getting sold there. Now only if dreams would come true .

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

amazing, how much did that cost.

Over 2 billion

Its just as cool inside

 

[Aces High]

Stuff like this is why they increase game prices.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Imagine seeing a giant eyeball watching your plane as you land in Vegas

I saw a video someone recorded from a plane of the face looking up at it.

 

[Robb]

That's pretty neat.

 

[splattered]

I remember saying "hmm I wonder if MS is staying somewhat quiet and reserved and holding back in different aspects because they want to appear weaker and get the Activision deal pushed through? Interesting that they almost immediately ramped up marketing just after the deal closes. I saw a really nice CoD "lobbies" commercial on YouTube yesterday too, had Xbox attached to it - not PlayStation.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

That's actually pretty cool.

 

[SimTourist]

I understand the point of the sphere but Xbox and Microsoft is lost if they don't release a new gears of war now it could get ugly.

Come on now, Gears 5 barely sold and the online was dead within a week.

 

[Negotiator101]

Over 2 billion

Its just as cool inside

WOW I might book a holiday for next year.

 

[Negotiator101]

Come on now, Gears 5 barely sold and the online was dead within a week.

A new Gears is big business and we know a movie is in the works as well.

 

[jroc74]

This looks cool, but that thread title is hilarious.

 

[SimTourist]

A new Gears is big business and we know a movie is in the works as well.

Even Halo is not big business anymore man.

 

[dotnotbot]

Nice big ass ad in USA where their consoles sell the most, meanwhile in Europe:

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Nice big ass ad in USA where their consoles sell the most, meanwhile in Europe:

Pretty sure its just for TwitchCon that starts today (I think today anyhow) in Vegas

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

All style. Sadly, no substance.

Like a cake that's all frosting.

A new Gears is big business and we know a movie is in the works as well.

A remake of the first three Gears games would be big business. Gears 6, continuing from 5's trajectory, would likely just further stagnate the franchise.

 

[Pelta88]

I'm amazed by the fact that if you remove the logo, it could be a marketing campaign about anything.

 

[AJUMP23]

I'm going to watch U2 there in a couple weeks.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

That screen is cool as hell, must cost some money to run that thing.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Looks pretty amazing when they do the 3d effect where things seem to come out of the dome.

However, that thing is, IMO, both very cool and also shouldn't exist, just a waste of energy and it's not like the world was desperate for new ways to see adverts.

They could have just not bothered making it and CGI'd it into a bunch of youtube videos, since that's where 99% of people will see it.

 

[Thirty7ven]

That was cool.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Looks pretty amazing when they do the 3d effect where things seem to come out of the dome.

However, that thing is, IMO, both very cool and also shouldn't exist, just a waste of energy and it's not like the world was desperate for new ways to see adverts.

They could have just not bothered making it and CGI'd it into a bunch of youtube videos, since that's where 99% of people will see it.

Its for TwitchCon thats there in Las Vegas this weekend

 

[Iced Arcade]

All style. Sadly, no substance.

Like a cake that's all frosting.

Just look at the cool dome.

 

[ahtlas7]

That'll get units moving. /s

 

[rofif]

That thing is huge, very bright.

I want to interest you in something:
This newly built Las Vegas sphere cost $2.3 billion and uses 150 terawatt-hours of electricity per year to power the massive screen
And people have the temper to tell me that physical games are trashing the planet?! 1 disc that is produced ONCE and stored in my home for next 50 years ?!
Also, an AD on the dome costs 500k.

So let me get this straight. They spent 70bil on studios + 500k this ad.
That's 140 RED DEAD REDEMPTIONS 2

 

[Gudji]

 

[Perrott]

Over 2 billion

Its just as cool inside

We need an equivalent to the E3 press conferences of old to be hosted inside the sphere.

Imagine watching a Kojima trailer on that screen.

 

[ReBurn]

As cool as it is… it took what… a week to become a giant ad?

That's all it was really ever meant to be.

 

[SlimySnake]

That sphere is the coolest thing we've made in the u.s in decades.

And that ad is the best ad Microsoft has ever made. When that monster's hand came out during the hellblade section, omg.

 

[Magic Carpet]

That thing is huge, very bright.

I want to interest you in something:
This newly built Las Vegas sphere cost $2.3 billion and uses 150 terawatt-hours of electricity per year to power the massive screen
And people have the temper to tell me that physical games are trashing the planet?! 1 disc that is produced ONCE and stored in my home for next 50 years ?!
Also, an AD on the dome costs 500k.

So let me get this straight. They spent 70bil + 500k on studios and ad.
That's 140 RED DEAD REDEMPTIONS 2

DUDE!
Your talking about millions of people that come to Vegas just to sit at a video slot machine for hours.

I don't think Red Ded Redemption is on the mind.

 

[rofif]

DUDE!
Your talking about millions of people that come to Vegas just to sit at a video slot machine for hours.

I don't think Red Ded Redemption is on the mind.

DUDE THEY use it for ad. they make video games. dude

 

[adamsapple]

That's all it was really ever meant to be.

Yeah, it's a giant billboard, what else are people expecting it to be for lol.

 

[Vyse]

Of course I am in San Francisco for the next few days and not home in Las Vegas.

 

[Salty Popsicle]

As cool as it is… it took what… a week to become a giant ad?

That's the whole purpose of having a giant orb wrapped in LCD screens on the Las Vegas Strip. You think the massive electricity bills that thing generates pay themselves? I believe I read somewhere that they charge $500,000 per day to run your ad on it.

 

[MarkMe2525]

I drive past this frequently, it's quite dangerous as it catches everyone's eye. Still awesome

 

[MarkMe2525]

That's the whole purpose of having a giant orb wrapped in LCD screens on the Las Vegas Strip. You think the massive electricity bills that thing generates pay themselves? I believe I read somewhere that they charge $500,000 per day to run your ad on it.

Ticket prices for shows in there will make your eyes bleed. My parents went to the U2 show in the sphere. It looked like the coolest experience possible outside of VR, and I still wouldn't have paid those prices.