The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has banned a recent televised PlayStation 3 ad for including "misleading" language which claimed the system would play all PlayStation 2 software.
While certain PlayStation 3 versions are indeed compatible with a majority of previous-generation software, the ad's claims (particularly the phrase "and it plays your PS2 games as well") were found to be in violation of CAP TV Advertising Standards Code rule 5.1, the UK's truth-in-advertising statute, reports Next Generation.
Despite ad creator PC World's argument that "around 80 percent of PS2 software is compatible with 60GB PlayStation 3s," the ASA has stated that the ad should not appear again in broadcast in its current form.