WiiShaft commerical makes me want to sew my vagina shut

No come on... it's so witty that it just APPEARS to be lame and.. uh all right it sucks.

So, what move is there in Street Fighter where you can go left right left right left right and press all the buttons on the controller at the same time? I admit I'm not a hardcore SF player, but they didn't seem to grasp the concepts. They were just grasping... The shaft... I guess. Is this controller actually good or is it just a marketing scheme with innuendo?

"In future, you may not want to draw a thinly veiled sexual connotation over your product as not to alienate the entire female gaming population"

I think the only females turned off by the concept are the Ellen Degeneres demographic ⌐_⌐

@Curious - I'm clearly not a lesbian and it infuriated me. Neither are any of our other female writers, so let's see what they think.

They should've designed the bottom of the thing a little less flat, so you can hold it on your leg or lap without it sliding all over the place.

Or maybe they WANT your shaft to slide all over women's legs. I have no idea what's going on anymore.

Sounds like a pr0no.

Stupid shit like that is offensive and dumb to everyone. It's just the result of some cheap crack-pot marketing team of the mind that sex sells. Well, it does, but you have to be sly about it; you can't just throw tits in our faces and scream "BUY OUR PRODUCT!"

This is what you do when your product isn't good enough to speak dor itself. It's just like that upcoming ps360 game "Wet".

I can't watch videos at work, but that title made me go all pruney down yonder.

From the Q&A section of their website.

Q: How big is the Shaft?
A: The Shaft is an Arcade-Style Controller, so it is approximately 6 inches x 11 inches.

They must be having fun, because they were pushing each other and laughing. I want this product.

That was the stupidest thing... Why is it fucking huge, too? Dammit, I hate the way the gaming industry uses women. And by gaming industry, I mean shitty little companies desperately trying to drum up interest in their shitty products. Fuck it.

um Ms Bennes, I happen to know chicks LOVE the shaft.... even more so than being objectified.... Now with a woman president, the days of burning your bra are over... relax, sit back and let it happen, you know you want it


PS: the video is not running, Im using Opera browser, is that an issue?

Do I have to be female? I can deal with the sex stuff, but putting together a piece of crap commercial like that and thinking it can be effective is just stupid...

Just another lame gaming commercial, really...anything to be "infuriated" about? Come on, Colette. A couple of Dtoiders overstated the "sex appeal" attempt--yeah, the girl took off her shirt...to reveal a SPORTS BRA. WHOOOOOOAAAAAAAA, sexy. Strip away (pardon my bad pun) that part and the name of the product and it's just another "casual gamers looking stupid whilst having simulated fun" ad. Certainly nothing to get that worked up about, eh?

As much as the commercial sucked i guess i'll never understand why this pisses you off so much. Whenever people make fun of my demographic i laugh (especially when they are stereotyping something about me and completely miss, just like this commercial tried and failed to do for you)

What's the big deal? So it belittles you, roll with the punches. I just don't understand what is so upsetting. Yeah it might be annoying, but that's as far as i could see it going. Maybe i just need to pay more attention.

I think the 'panning up over girl wearing undies' part at the beginning cemented that this was a dumb way to try selling a decent looking product. Honestly, it reminds me of the old NES Advantage. Totally retrotastic. But they'll never see my money because if they don't understand how not to be a-hole marketers, they probably don't know how not to short out the friggin' wires in their controller.

Ace move.

That was really bad.

Wow a larger classic controller. There actually is a real acade stick for the Wii, forget this trash

wow

I mean, this commercial is obviously crappy and sexist, but it does seem like there is a little bit excessive indignation here. I mean, this is definitely not comparable to "guys jacking of on Jade Raymond's tits". Just seems like a shabby company trying to sell a shabby product in a shabby way. Nothing worth sowing your vagina shut for.

epic fail.

That is one giant dild.. uh I mean controller

That's partially my point Colette. You're applying the reaction from Ron's stupid comic to this commercial when they are nowhere near the same level. This commercial was lame, but your reaction to it seemed way overboard IMO.

So, where can I buy one of those?

eh, not a bad idea, but i would never get one