Sony Surprisingly Uses Iconic Nintendo Character for Promoting the PlayStation 5 Overseas

No Doubt PlayStation 5 was one of the most talked-about next-gen consoles of the year 2021. Mainly because getting hands-on with this next-gen console was difficult, the reason being the stock availability issues. And way back in the year 2020, during the time of the PlayStation 5 launch, Sony had a blast promoting this popular gaming console. And speaking of promotions, recently, one PlayStation store in China used an iconic Nintendo character to promote the console.

Yes, that’s right, it’s a little weird but at the same time surprising news for the fans. And what’s even more surprising is the iconic Nintendo character is none other than the all-time popular Mario. Moreover, this type of promotion is not something that fans usually get to witness often. No doubt PlayStation 5 has become the talk of the town after Sony’s this promotion technique.

On January 5, 2022, one Twitter user who’s popular among the gaming community by the name of “Daniel Ahmad” shared this news via a Twitter post.

According to this tweet, a PS store in Guangzhou city of China has done this promotion. Moreover, the fans are requested to focus on the image that the tweet features. Looking at this image, fans will get to know that Mario is accompanied by Bowser that also in their wedding outfits. And both of these characters belong to the popular 2017 release Super Mario Odyssey.

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It looks like this news has already become viral among the gaming community. Because it’s been just a few hours and this tweet has already crossed a whopping 13k likes, 1.3k retweets followed by over 160 quote tweets.

Using these iconic Nintendo characters will only boost PS5 sales. But as of now, Sony or PlayStation have released no information about this. For the fans who are unfamiliar with this, Nintendo is all set to release their Nintendo Switch OLED Model in China on the 11th of Jan 2022.

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