Wii football controller brought to life by CTA Digital

It wasn't too long ago that we were berating Nintendo for its seemingly silly patent application relating to a football-shaped soft appendage for the Wii Remote controllers. As it turns out, we may have underestimated the consumer interest in just such a product. While Ninty's application is still under review, CTA Digital has taken the opportunity to introduce its own "soft, realistic accessory" for the ballers that just can't get their Madden on without the feel of a rubbery pigskin substitute. It's ambidextrous, it comes with a wrist strap, and it has absolutely no right to exist in a society of right-thinking Homo sapiens. But it does. At least price and availability aren't yet public, so hopefully you'll have forgotten about this abomination by the time of release.

Update: Turns out these are already available at Amazon for a precious cent short of $17.

[onlymyrailgun Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:14AM]

Can I bubi this?

[Joe Cool Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:47AM]

@onlymyrailgun

Only if you're a hot Asian chic

[bigsofty Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:15AM]

#1 vote for silliest controller addon ever!

[abedinthehouse Posted Mar 23rd 2010 12:03AM]

@bigsofty
Watch as reports come in of players loosing the football from their hands and breaking TVs

[ThatDudeSolo Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:17AM]

when will the madness stop...

[glamajamma Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:58AM]

@ThatDudeSolo
When will the Maddenness stop?!?!

Get it?

[ThatDudeSolo Posted Mar 22nd 2010 1:08PM]

@glamajamma lol I get it, took me a few mins.

[elijahblake Posted Mar 22nd 2010 1:15PM]

@ThatDudeSolo

hopefully after the launch of Sony's Move launch!!

[friendly0ne Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:18AM]

WTFootball

[paul34 Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:18AM]

The wrist strap is definitely a necessity with this one.

"hey man, go long!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

[stridermt2k Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:18AM]

Slap a team logo on it and you can charge an extra 20 bucks for it and it'll STILL be sold out in no time.

[niZmo Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:18AM]

lol they make so many stupid add-ons for the controllers and its only going to get worse. Like ribbon dancing or something lol

[willwork4ammo Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:49AM]

@niZmo Oh man, oh man, oh man. Mind if I use that ribbon dancing idea? Good! (runs out the door to nearest chinese manufacturing facility)

[gregvand Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:19AM]

i can see this sticking out of my plasma tv.

[onlymyrailgun Posted Mar 22nd 2010 12:17PM]

@gregvand
TOUCHDOWN!

[unknownsolo Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:19AM]

/facepalm

[SimonXL Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:24AM]

Get ready for more of this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1y33PXpP3Q

[gernblanston Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:25AM]

All Wii controller accessories that make it look like something else without adding real functionality (ex. Guitar) should be classified as a Crapgadget.

[axerlzx Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:27AM]

I can see the poor TV broken with 100mph kill shot already

[Esat Dedezade Posted Mar 22nd 2010 12:21PM]

@axerlzx

Or people can just hit the crap out of eachother with these, they're like padded brass knuckles. All the fun with none of the blood!

[elijahblake Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:30AM]

when will it ever end??

[Newwales Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:31AM]

Wii Football controler No its not that is a Rugby ball or in America a (American Football) Controler.

A football is a round ball shape, always has been always will be.

[teh jughead Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:54AM]

@Newwales good thinig this isn't engadget.co.uk or engadget.au

[Zorque Posted Mar 22nd 2010 12:51PM]

@Newwales
Oh look, someone on the internet pointing out that football means different things in different countries, how novel!

Shut up, seriously.

[AltairDusk Posted Mar 22nd 2010 12:59PM]

@Newwales

On a US based site 'football' nearly always means our version of football. On a UK or Europe based site I always assume 'football' mean what we call soccer here. Have to keep in mind where the site is based and where their largest target demographic is.

[Newwales Posted Mar 22nd 2010 1:06PM]

@AltairDusk Ye i understand, i know this is mainly a US site, but this is the best English speaking tech site, I just wish the editors sometimes realise that non americans do read this site.

I am not getting a uk/usa english argument we both know want we mean when we use out own version of “English” anyway im welsh & out language has been destroy by the English.

Luv this website.

[scots79 Posted Mar 22nd 2010 1:22PM]

@Newwales So the engadget editors should cater to their minority userbase? Logic fail.

[inertone Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:35AM]

cant wait for wii steroids!
itll be a syringe appendage for the controller!

[Esat Dedezade Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:37AM]

I was just kicked out by the University Librarian... as soon as I saw this I projectile vomited all over the newly installed PC and caused a lot of disruption to the other students. Luckily I'm not banned permanently, I sent her an email with the link to this article and she now understands.

[Warzone Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:42AM]

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[unknownsolo Posted Mar 22nd 2010 12:41PM]

@Warzone thats some big forehead!!

[nalakrub Posted Mar 22nd 2010 2:23PM]

@unknownsolo
fivehead

[wrathkind Posted Mar 23rd 2010 2:41AM]

@unknownsolo

That's Captain Picard

[NathanHeil Posted Mar 22nd 2010 11:55AM]

And in a completely unrelated event, reports of damaged TV sets skyrocket.

[Heliosphan Posted Mar 22nd 2010 12:08PM]

And the winner goes to - Wii Football add-on.
Congrats on winning the biggest waste of plastic and energy and staff time since the dawn of time.
Think about it - I'd laff out loud about this if it weren't for all this - initial design, concept design and modelling, prototyping, packaging design, initial production, mass production design, mass production run, packaging, distribution organisation and shipping around the world.
Thats one hell of a mountain of beans of wasted natural resources on this piece of s**t.

[steakman Posted Mar 22nd 2010 12:20PM]

I didn't realize the Chicago Transit Authority made wii football attachments!

[To Hell Posted Mar 22nd 2010 12:43PM]

This has to be one of the most stupid looking man-made objects ever created.

[ChillyCat Posted Mar 22nd 2010 1:26PM]

@To Hell said:

"This has to be one of the most stupid looking man-made objects ever created"


It wasn't.....It was created by the Chinese

[Horse Posted Mar 22nd 2010 2:05PM]

@ChillyCat I think I speak for all of us: what?

[tbhuang2 Posted Mar 22nd 2010 12:46PM]

I don't think this is such a good idea...

[EUPORIC Posted Mar 22nd 2010 1:20PM]

Do people really buy this stuff?

[Colrath Posted Mar 22nd 2010 1:26PM]

Homosapians is two words?

[onlymyrailgun Posted Mar 27th 2010 12:48PM]

@Colrath
Indeed, Homo is the species name and sapiens is sub-species. Like Homo neanderthalis. BTW, aren't we supposed to italicize the words, since you've already capitalized "Homo" anyway?

[onlymyrailgun Posted Mar 27th 2010 12:50PM]

@onlymyrailgun
Sorry, "Homo neanderthalensis" ... my bad.

[glennS Posted Mar 22nd 2010 2:23PM]

It is stupid on two fronts. Obviously, there is the whole throwing the thing at the TV angle. But if you can overlook that for a moment, it is fundamentally flawed even if you took it seriously. Holding this thing would be nothing like holding a football. It would be like putting your hand through a football, which is kind a ridiculous.

[eriksmith200 Posted Mar 22nd 2010 2:24PM]

A much nicer wii/ball combo:
http://vimeo.com/2159979

was never turned into a commercial product

[Tristan88888888 Posted Mar 22nd 2010 3:19PM]

the first thing i would want to do with that is throw it. that is such a bad idea.

[shivah Posted Mar 23rd 2010 10:06AM]

Nice one