Xbox 360 Dashboard Advertising

Yes the ad man has invaded another product and is filling their boots at our expense. Adverts have been appearing in the 360 dashboard. The adverts may be game related, but when ‘Compare the Meerkat’ comes on we start to get worried. Advertising in games has been a hot topic over the last few years and as the video game industry grows to epic levels more of this is feared. The video below shows the ad.

So you can skip past the ad in seconds, but many people argue that they pay for a service and then recieve ads. Do they not realise they pay for cable tv filled with ads? Anyway like most things game related the majority will still continue and the fanboys will be outraged for a day and then continue.

Some YouTube quotes:

What complete and total s***! I don’t pay microsoft $50/year to download crap commercials on my? XBox. If it becomes intrusive I’ll drop it!

Wow, it takes one second to press right on the d pad and skip? past it. Over reacting much?

This was already in place… it’s always been on that second slide? on that section… you are not forced to watch it.. just bypass it. who the f*** cares.