If any of you ever catch me looking as retarded as these two girls do playing with this new
Wiishaft control thing, I want you to do me a favor. I want you to take the nearest blunt object you can find and I want you to hit me square in the face. I don't mind if you make a permanent injury as it will remind me of looking like a douche and hopefully ingrain the lesson not to repeat the error.
As far as the joystick itself goes, it could be cool or it could be tragic, but all I know is that commercial just made me want to puke. Also, the "shaft" thing -- What? So it's girls playing with a controller called a "Wiishaft"? Wow. Aren't you guys at Overline Gaming witty? Chicks jerking shafts around. In future, you may not want to attach such thinly-veiled sexual innuendo to your product, so as not to alienate the entire female gaming population, which is larger than it's ever been.
Buy it
here if you are so inclined.
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1:39 PM on 11.14.2007
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Totally agree about the video. They should have just skipped the innuendo and had the girls manipulate the joystick with their vaginas. Heck, looking at how they were using it with their hands their gaming abilities might have improved. I'd almost recommend skipping on this product just to teach them a lesson about making shitty ads. :p
I think the only females turned off by the concept are the Ellen Degeneres demographic ⌐_⌐
Not that I was even considering buying it. It looks terribly designed.
Or maybe they WANT your shaft to slide all over women's legs. I have no idea what's going on anymore.
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 really want a joystick for my NES games, since I had an Advantage, but MAN is that the totally wrong name for that product.
Owning that just screams, "I HATE SEX!" to any woman that sees it in your home.
Q: How big is the Shaft?
A: The Shaft is an Arcade-Style Controller, so it is approximately 6 inches x 11 inches.
HORI has an arcade joystick as well.
http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product_id=802721
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.
PS: the video is not running, Im using Opera browser, is that an issue?
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.
Ace move.
Also, I always find it amusing that so many male gamers all of a sudden are offended by something like that commercial when they realize (or are prompted to realize) that they *should* be by a girl gamer.
You watch and ad for laundry detergent without having girls plastered all over the place on TV these days...
Also they might have been drunk/high, just look at how they laugh.