Southwest's Wii send-up brings back old times
By Paul Miller 
posted Sep 19th 2007 4:35PM
posted Sep 19th 2007 4:35PM
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posted Sep 19th 2007 4:35PM
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Looks more like PS3's "motion" controller.
Looks more like a 360 pad with the chunky battery pack on the back...
You do know the PS3 controller and the Wiimote both use the same accelerometer, right?
My coworker's son did this with an XBOX 360 controller not even a week after we bought his plasma screen... ouch!
Why did you buy your coworker's son a plasma TV?
Should have been "he" not "we". I'm nice. But not that nice.
I smell gay romance
"I smell gay romance"
Funny, I smell stupidity.
May be a little late, but you gotta love the guys focus and excitement when he launches the controller at the TV.
lol that was awesome!! wtg Southwest!
Was that a strike or a ball?
Oh wait, disqualification.
Southwest is my first choice for domestic travel.
Southwestis is one of my last choices for domestic travel. The wanna get away slogan does not infer getting away to your intended destination, rather stuck at some airport waiting to get to your destination. Add the fact that they won't let bimbos who dress slutty ride and this airline just ain't no fun. They are the amtrack or greyhound of the skies.
Greyhound of the sky is a little kind - I wouldn't set foot on another Southwest flight if my life depended on it. Between the creaky old 747s and the flight-school-dropout caliber of our pilots, I was unimpressed.
those are n64 controllers right?
Yeah, N64 is my guess.
My question is why it says it's a PS3 ad spoof at GameBrink. I thought right away Wii, cos of N64 controllers. I almost forgot that PS3 copied the controllers from Wii.
Southwest should have had scantily clad women in this commercial, oh wait nevermind.
That's one of the things I fear with my Wii and having guests over. One of my mates managed to just miss my Hitachi plasma by centimeters when he threw the Wii controller. Where was his dodgy wrist strap?
Since it's your equipment, you gotta enforce everyone to be "strapped." :)
That's a pretty lousy mounting job for the TV to just fall after that. I'd not say anything about the remote and have the installation company replace the TV if this were a real scenario.
Its an ad!
Hence the "..if this were a real scenario." at the end.
hell yes those are n6 controllers...did you guys ever play bond? plus the red totally throws it away
I don't care how old the joke is. That's funny.
Hahaha. The game says "Strike three! You're out!" after he throws it. And those are definitely Playstation controllers.
I love how the site credits this as a mockery of the playstation 3. It's quite obviously the Wii... if they wanted to mock the control of the ps3, he'd have thrown the ball boomerang, and it would have come back to him.
The PS3 isn't famous enough to be mocked on television commercials...