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* Video game companies deal with this trope all the time, as the most popular system often becomes a synonym for video gaming itself. It's still common to hear people (mostly non-gamers who don't know anything about video games and systems) to say that they are "playing Atari" or "playing Nintendo" even though these companies obviously have more than one system.
** In Australia, the non-hardcore gamers among us don't play with our "[[PlayStation]]/ -2/ -3" or "Wii/GCN/N64/SNES/Game Boy/NES". We play with our "Sony" or "Nintendo". Slowly dying out as gaming becomes more ubiquitous, however.
** A 1990 poster from Nintendo describes preferred phrasing with the headline "[https://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/07/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-nintendo/ There's no such thing as a Nintendo.]"
** Ad copy guidelines dictate that the full name of the [[Play Station 3]] is "[[PlayStation]]®3 computer entertainment system" and the Xbox 360 is "Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft." It leads to some... unwieldy marketing sentences.▼
** The Sony [[PlayStation]] would often be referred to as the "[[PlayStation]] Game Console" in commercials for their games.▼
▲** Ad copy guidelines dictate that the full name of the [[
** Companies also get rather specific when it comes to the names of their individual components. You don't use a controller with a PlayStation console, you use a DualShock or a SixAxis; and it's not just a memory card, it's a Memory Card (8MB) (for [[PlayStation]]®2).
** That said, one exception - Nintendo decided to just call the analog attachment to the Wii Remote "the Nunchuk" because [[Ascended Fanon|most gamers used that phrase for it well before the system's release]]. ''The Videogame Style Guide'' insists that this term should ''not'' be used, contradicting both common usage and Nintendo's own style guide.
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** Also overt product placement was technically illegal on British-made TV in general until Ofcom (the regulatory body) relaxed the rules somewhat in 2011, meaning even if it was a paid for plug naming the product directly could land the program makers in trouble.
* At least a few years ago, every single fashion doll was a Barbie doll, regardless of whether or not it was made by Mattel. Just so long as it could wear the same clothes as a Barbie, it was a Barbie.
▲* The Sony [[PlayStation]] would often be referred to as the "[[PlayStation]] Game Console" in commercials for their games.
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