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Awesomely Inessential WiiMote Holder
Posted by Kotaku US Edition at 9:20 AM on August 23, 2008
What do you buy for the Wii owner who has everything?
No, I mean who really has everything - like, there is literally no Wii-related consumer good that they do not own apart from the one you are going to buy them.
Can we cautiously recommend the Hori Remote Controller Pocket? It is a smalll cardboard box that you can put your WiiMote and Nunchuck in. It's got 'Wii' written on the front in the correct font and everything. Er, that's it.
Even the National Console Support store, who are the ones trying to sell the thing on import seem mystified. Observe their high-pressure sales technique:
Anyone can fashion a similar pouch from an empty tissue box, a wonton soup container, a paper bag, or the cardboard box that your GA-KO Alarm Clock arrived in. Sure it won't look as nice as Hori's rendition but the functionality is the same and the cardboard box is free.
Sure, it's only $US 9, but there is a global recession on, for goodness' sake!
Remote Controller Pocket [NCSX via Wonderland]
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Wolfers
Posted 10:18 AM 23/8/08
I never felt the need to put controllers in a tiny box.
...and I still don't!
Wolfers
Skuld
Posted 10:11 AM 23/8/08
I'd rather buy this than a tennis racket shell.
But yeh, hard drive already please.
Skuld
djricekcn
Posted 10:06 AM 23/8/08
A little different, but yeah [kotaku.com]
djricekcn
djricekcn
Posted 10:04 AM 23/8/08
Bashcraft has this from Club Nintendo
djricekcn
LastFace
Posted 10:01 AM 23/8/08
What they should do is make a holder that'll hold 4 Wiimotes, and a holder that'll hold 4 Nunchucks that can morph into 2 Wiimote/Nunchuck-launching guns. Or connect together into a Wiimote-Nunchuck bola-style launching thing you put on your shoulder.
Oooh, no I have an even better idea!
They should make a hard drive! For the Wii! It's brilliant!
LastFace
kw4k
Posted 10:00 AM 23/8/08
@ChunkOFunk: you didn't know? you can turn anything into a nationlistic argument.
this product... this box... this waste of cardboard... must have been the design of an 8 yr old
kw4k
Mesren_Makai
Posted 9:56 AM 23/8/08
@TheHeeyyy: Which, in order to dig through the money, we must buy the patented Wii Shovel (to dig through the outer cash), and the Wii Snorkel, to swim through the loose change.
Mesren_Makai
Nirolak
Posted 9:50 AM 23/8/08
@lancaster1: I was thinking more along the lines of a holder organizer, in which you can store four of these holders for storing all your Wiimote/Nunchuck combos.
Nirolak
alecpyron
Posted 9:50 AM 23/8/08
@MysidianMan: I would buy that ^^
alecpyron
chaos_isnt_here
Posted 9:49 AM 23/8/08
how bout I just continue to toss my wiimote on the couch and we'll call it all the same.
chaos_isnt_here
lancaster1
Posted 9:47 AM 23/8/08
seriously most useless POS evar
what will they come up wit next a bigger holder to hold the holder.....
lancaster1
Spedfrom
Posted 9:45 AM 23/8/08
Wii is a fad! A very long one that will milk its consumers for all they're worth. ^^
Spedfrom
Ad-hominem
Posted 9:44 AM 23/8/08
Man, that's hilarious.
I've seen garbage accessories being sold, but being told on the product page "There's no reason why something like this should exist, but it does" is the best thing I've heard in a long time.
So, this is a joke, right?
Right?
I mean, not like that "I am Rich" thing I got burned by a while ago?
Because I already pre-ordered 6.
Ad-hominem
ShaggE
Posted 9:33 AM 23/8/08
HAHAHAHA!!!
At first I was skeptical, but when they basically told me NOT to buy it, I was sold!
ShaggE
Boudabras
Posted 9:32 AM 23/8/08
We need more accessories for our accessories please!
Boudabras
MysidianMan
Posted 9:32 AM 23/8/08
I'm still holding out for a cowboy-style holster.
MysidianMan
ChunkOFunk
Posted 9:32 AM 23/8/08
@Littlefields:
What the hell? Surprise nationalism? How did you bring a post about a wii remote pocket into some nationalistic BS?
ChunkOFunk
Littlefields
Posted 9:29 AM 23/8/08
@LastFace:
And about 90% of those people will probably be American.
Littlefields
deathbunny
Posted 9:29 AM 23/8/08
Not frivolous enough. I demand a wiitote made from the finest alabaster flesh of the albino viper, chased in platinum, and emblazoned with herbacite crystals!
(any relationship to actual luxury materials real or imagined is purely coincidental--if you are a patent holder on an upperclass laundry hamper made from kimodo skin and sterling silver, do not sue me. Or SEW ME lawl)
deathbunny
WiglyWorm
Posted 9:29 AM 23/8/08
best sales pitch EVAR!
WiglyWorm
kainzero
Posted 9:27 AM 23/8/08
It can also be used as... a hat.
kainzero
TheHeeyyy
Posted 9:25 AM 23/8/08
@Mesren_Makai:
Buried under a never-ending mountain of money at Nintendo HQ.
TheHeeyyy
LastFace
Posted 9:24 AM 23/8/08
And the saddest part is, people will probably buy it.
LastFace
Mesren_Makai
Posted 9:23 AM 23/8/08
Oh sweet Raptor Jesus...
Where the heck is my harddrive?
Mesren_Makai
Morpork
Posted 9:23 AM 23/8/08
This just in-- Wii accessories bankrupt 5 million people.
Morpork
Cloral
Posted 10:40 AM 23/8/08
Way overpriced. I got a couple of bins to hold all my game controllers (360 and Wii) upright, organized, and easy to grab for like a buck each. I will say though that such a setup is really quite nice, it reduces living room clutter quite a bit (it's never really possible to get all those controllers organized on a table top without something to hold them).
Cloral
Intellectualdiot
Posted 10:32 AM 23/8/08
Using candor to move product? Devious cunts.
Intellectualdiot
Spiffyness
Posted 10:24 AM 23/8/08
Hehe... I wish I had a GA-KO alarm clock...
Spiffyness
sarcasmOD
Posted 10:48 AM 23/8/08
Is that reverse psychology or just somebody at the NCS saying we know it won't sell, and I've always wanted to say this in the product summary of all the cheap and useless things we sell?
sarcasmOD
feitclub
Posted 11:22 AM 23/8/08
I laugh at this because I bought a small white basket at Ikea earlier this month for this exact purpose, except it's big enough to hold all my remotes and game controllers. Too late, Hori, too late.
feitclub
HalcyonX12
Posted 11:07 AM 23/8/08
Well, I guess you can't buy them a life...
HalcyonX12
Mj92
Posted 11:55 AM 23/8/08
goddammit nintendo stop giving me this stupid piece of shit accessories and give me my damn harddrive !!!
Mj92
Utmu
Posted 11:44 AM 23/8/08
WHOAH! I CAN GET THAT FOR $9?! HOW CAN I LOSE?!
For those of you who couldn't tell whether I'm serious or not: I'm not serious.
Utmu
BPMΣ
Posted 11:41 AM 23/8/08
@Littlefields:
PROTIP: It's a Japanese import.
BPMΣ
TMFAN
Posted 12:19 PM 23/8/08
@Mj92: Except it wasn't Nintendo. It was Hori.
TMFAN
dArk_stAr
Posted 12:29 PM 23/8/08
how delightfully useless!
dArk_stAr
alienorgy69
Posted 12:27 PM 23/8/08
@deathbunny: Ha. That made me think of a Captain N for aught-eight. Trapped in a game world.
alienorgy69
Awoken
Posted 12:56 PM 23/8/08
I love the "it snaps open" graphic, like it would sell more because of it. LOL
Awoken
LostSocks
Posted 1:38 PM 23/8/08
People spending money on useless crap would stimulate the economy.
LostSocks
maraxusofk
Posted 1:37 PM 23/8/08
every popular product has a crapload of crappy accesories following it. the ipod is one such example
maraxusofk
rob61920
Posted 2:51 PM 23/8/08
what's this another peripheral from nintendo
rob61920
Mesren_Makai
Posted 3:12 PM 23/8/08
I use my 1st art-box (that I used to put pens and brushes) for my controllers. It doesn't hold ALL of them, but enough. And I'm sure anyone can use an box to their new phone/alarmclock or something to hold their Wiimotes in.
Now it's just getting ridiculous.
Mesren_Makai
Mayu-mayu
Posted 4:00 PM 23/8/08
"What do you buy for the Wii owner who has everything?"
Trash bin.
Mayu-mayu
sayoko
Posted 4:35 PM 23/8/08
Gee what if I have more than a pair of wiimotes and nunchucks? I'll need a lot of those cardboard boxes :/
sayoko
excaliburps
Posted 8:50 PM 23/8/08
This this made out of cardboard and it costs $9?! What the hell?!
I'd like to know who though of this and fart in their face. Maybe they can package it and sell it too! Heck if they can sell this they can sell may man-gas!
excaliburps
epy0nkaru
Posted 2:02 AM 24/8/08
looks snazzy rather than useless
epy0nkaru
VotaIdiota
Posted 8:24 AM 24/8/08
For some completely unknown reason, I first read the headline as "Awesomely INCESTUAL WiiMote Holder."
Then, for an even more unknown reason, I got excited.
VotaIdiota
reallynotnick
Posted 7:38 AM 25/8/08
Only $9?!?!? I am in for 4!
reallynotnick
CavemanGreg
Posted 2:39 PM 23/8/08
really tho what is that shit like what a load of crap for 9$ im blown away somthing like this exists
CavemanGreg
CavemanGreg
Posted 2:38 PM 23/8/08
@chaos_isnt_here:
LOL same here i died when i read what u said haha
CavemanGreg
riceboy2049
Posted 2:36 PM 23/8/08
Look up isock on google images.
riceboy2049
Intrik
Posted 10:55 AM 23/8/08
Darn... now if only I had a Wii to go with my GA-KO Alarm Clock box I'd feel like I was saving money on a useless novelty holder.
..er wait, I bought a duck clock so never mind that >.<
Intrik
MoreSandvich
Posted 9:35 AM 23/8/08
Is it inessential, nonessential, or unessential? I'd rather spend $9 on a sandvich.
MoreSandvich
Mosquixel
Posted 10:24 AM 23/8/08
I have a "Wii Blue" plastic bucket I throw all my stuff in. $10 at the container store.
Mosquixel