The first was a sidescroller that actually received good reviews. The s: advergames or games with great product placement? From the late s through the mids, we saw developers partner with brands to integrate real-life products into games with varying degrees of success. In the best of cases, as with Crazy Taxi on the Dreamcast, product placement aided immersion as players ferried passengers to and from real-world locations, including Levis and Pizza Hut.
Such was the case of racing and sports games where in-game adverts enhanced the experience as stadiums and racing tracks were portrayed more realistically if ads were shown as real-life locations. FIFA and other popular licensed sports franchises made extensive use of in-game product placement and advertising, on billboards, jerseys, and more.
The reasoning here was simple: sports events are heavily commercialized with sponsorships, so getting brands into gaming titles like Madden, NHL or NASCAR incurred license fees which, ironically enough, game developers offset by including prominent product placement just like in real life.
In other cases, bad product placement turned into an immersion breaker. Battlefield , with its Titan mode gameplay, was an innovative multiplayer shooter in many respects. There was one very unwelcome innovation, though: digital ad billboards.
EA, to its credit, understood the drawbacks to this approach and completely removed in-game ads from the Battlefield franchise entry. Until recently, console and PC games were mainly sold as physical retail units. Mobile gaming completely upended this system, adding into the mix a larger number of independent development teams. With a variety of in-app advertising options available, in-game ads are often the primary revenue source for mobile game developers.
Since the rise of smartphones, in-game advertisements in popular titles have raked in billions of dollars.
Over the years, the format and complexity of these have changed significantly. Basic full screen and banner ads were the norm at the beginning. Many free-to-play games would have banners at the top or bottom of the screen, promoting products relevant to individual users. Static, timed fullscreen ads often played in between levels or lives. Video ads are also served at key transition points. Over this period, in-game became so widespread and annoying that it actually had an impact on the way games themselves are developed.
Many free-to-play mobile games -- including entire genres like endless runners -- are built around accommodating ad delivery at frequent intervals. More recently, ads have become more interactive. In titles like Pokemon Go , developers added in-game advertising that made use of real locations, blurring the line between real-world and in-game ads. While mobile is definitely leading the charge these days when it comes to in-game ads, there are plenty of examples to look at in the console and PC space, too.
The Yakuza franchise on PC and console stands out: Yakuza games make extensive use of in-game product placement to create a more believable world: everything from the Don Quijote supermarket to billboard ads for the Nico Nico streaming service have counterparts in real life. Not all product placement works this seamlessly, however. Take Monster energy drinks in Death Stranding, for example. The ubiquity of Monster in the game, or even how water refills in your canteen turn into the energy drink, are never actually explained.
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