GT6 "content" unlocked @ 5 million views.

RandomCarGuy17
It's at 1.885 million now. Wow, it's really moving.
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Wow! I tell you, it comes in spurts. :)

I don't know how Youtube updates the view counter, but we just gained 170k in less than 2 hours.
 
Wow, this is picking up speed now. We're not too far from 2,000,000 any day now.
 
2,200,000! 44% complete.

Literally jumped 400k in 3 hours!

We're on pace to see the content in July.
 
CorvetteConquer
2,200,000! 44% complete.

Literally jumped 400k in 3 hours!

We're on pace to see the content in July.
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Damn, Seriously? Took everyone long enough :lol:
 
Ills1999
Yep.



It makes perfect sense as both a face-saving move and for generating hype.
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So you think google would allow this?
 
To be honest I am seeing that ad on multiple youtube videos now so yeah they are definately doing something.
 
Paying Google to inflate view count numbers of a broad spectrum advertising video is a pretty roundabout way to build hype for a specific game. Plus there's no reason to think they did it in the first place since YouTube's viewer count for videos is known to be notoriously inaccurate when it first updates.
 
I really don't think they need to save face over a youtube video and it's lack of hits, people will have forgotten about it by the time PS4 is here and it's hardly going to sway people which console they buy.
 
Don't feel like going through all these pages and I'm sorry if anyone already recommended this..

but just make a playlist on youtube, put this and only this video in the playlist, click the loop button and let it keep playing itself 24/7 :)
 
Almost half way there already? Not that I am expecting anything more then a theme, but it's free, so it's all good to me!
 
Someone has already pointed out a "looping" function on YouTube without having to make a playlist consisting of just that video. Just use http://www.youtube.com/v=[[VIDEOID]]&loop=1
 
Good idea but I'm not sure whether it counts or not.
 
I guess it's true; the first million really is the hardest, by some margin! :sly:
 
Tornado
Paying Google to inflate view count numbers of a broad spectrum advertising video is a pretty roundabout way to build hype for a specific game. Plus there's no reason to think they did it in the first place since YouTube's viewer count for videos is known to be notoriously inaccurate when it first updates.
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Sure. Totally unreasonable to speculate that Sony had a contingency in place in case their marketing stunt doesn't catch fire.

They'd be stupid not to ensure that the video hits 5 million, it's a given, as far as I'm concerned.

What's a more embarrassing tagline "Sony's latest video cannot even generate enough buzz to reach 5 million views" or "Sony caught padding viewcount in latest marketing campaign"?

I'm of the "there is no such thing as bad publicity" view in this case.
 
There would be no headline. It's really not that important.
 
It's unreasonable to jump to assuming that Sony paid Google to commit fraud because the YouTube view counter is acting screwy on a publicity video.
 
Ills1999
That's the point. They desperately need to make it important.
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Why do they? It's essentially a fan service, it's not relevent in the grand scheme of the console.
 
Ills1999
It makes perfect sense as both a face-saving move and for generating hype.
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Why would they need to save face? They have no reason to do any of it as Microsoft's Negative image already has many people on their side.
 
wow, over 2 million already. didn't think this would go that fast
 
Samus
Why do they? It's essentially a fan service, it's not relevent in the grand scheme of the console.
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Right. Why even shoot the lame video, then?
 
Update for OP: Number has now reached 2,488,201
 
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