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Sex Sells – Wii vs PS3

written by John Chow on October 31, 2006

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OK, I am pretty sure this is no the commercial Nintendo is going to use when the Wii hits the market. The video is a play on the PC vs. Mac commercial. Only this one takes it a lot closer to the edge. View the video here.

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It's pathetic that all you people who are jizzing over the new Wii get so offended by my post. Obviously you guys are circle-jerking over the Wii so I will stay out of it. Spawn-inc is begging for a facial.

this is to ray ... you are a fu*king moron! first off this wasn't done by nintendo. second the reason they use a large girl is well... let me think, it might have to do with the facts that the ps3 is also huge! and the reason the wii is a "sluttly girl" is becuase like "sluts" the nintendo wii is easy to use

Nintendo forever (ps3 will be good once FFXIII comes out and Resident evil 5, but until them its not worth the money!, less ur blu-raying)

OMG you posted that at 1:59am you should've been in bed it was way passed your bedtime young man. Next time I see your mother I will tell her what you did she will be very upset and put you on time out.

Ray you're a son of a monkey dog. You are a dumb jerk and you should be put to a horrible death. The reason you don't like the commercial is because you're a fat loser with no life. Someone should kill you and do society a big favor. If I knew where you lived I would cut off your hand and make a handheld controller out of it.

This commercial is not from Nintendo!

I think the Wii is very cool but honestly that commercial, although the woman on the right was pretty damn hot, was a poor attempt by Nintendo to get attention.

First of all, copying Apple's brilliant ads and cheapening it by doing their own poorly made rendition of it... it's just not funny really. Maybe they over did it with the girl being slutty because now I just think Nintendo is the slut that will make any dumb commercial because they're desparate for attention. And what about the social issues that commercial raises. Sony is portrayed as a fat woman? Why, because fat women are looked down upon in a negative way in society so it's only fitting for Nintendo to brand Sony the "fat girl"? Those are pretty sensitive issues to deal with and Nintendo didn't seem to be sensitive at all towards their plus-sized audience... again suggesting Nintendo's seemingly desparate attempt to clinch a certain fan-base who can be won over by petty humor. Why? Did Nintendo really need to make an ad like that? I don't think so it seems like they're winning the console war already.

Don't get me wrong I'm not anti-Nintendo or anything. But the clean-cut and user-friendly image that I had of Nintendo is now tarnished because of that rather dumb commercial.

Sex always sells! If Nintendo wants to do REALLY well, do something like this ;)

I kept wishing the video would end. Yawn.

The Wii is hot. The commercial is hot too. I think it is a good one, I think they are using blatant sexuality as a joke and to good effect. It is an easy way to get rid of the stigma that Nintendo is for kids.

JC - yes and you know why? Because it is much easier to monetize and share with family and friends! :)

Great marketing. I'll buy one. what was she selling again?

Al Davies - I didn't do anything. Maybe YouTube fixed it on their end.

Sonia - You would like that wouldn't you? :)

I want to see these two sluts kissing each other :)

The Wii is sexy enough without Nintendo stooping to risque commercials like this. You see Paris Hilton shlepping burgers, because a burger by itself just isn't sexy. The Wii sells itself.

What did you do to fix the videos? I wasn't able to see them using firefox before.

Pretty brilliant I would say.

hey, this is cool.

can't wait to get my hands on her,
urm, i mean it. :)

cheers,
TOFUmonkey

Hehe. Imagine if they did use it though. I know I'd buy one :)

hahaha nice commercial video :D