Sony Motion Controller Gets a Truly Outrageous Name

[Casual Shinji]

OoOH Gem, it's truly outragious, truly, truly, truly outragious.

OoOh Gem, the music's contagious.

 

[Vampir1c]

It looks like a glowing dildo with one ball...

 

[Segadroid]

It looks more like an oversized glow-in-the-dark lolly to me than something I would swing around in my bedroom. And lets face it; they're just trying to catch up on the Wii-mote.

EDIT: Hey, I just realized I don't see any safety-straps on that thing. I'm pretty sure a few TV's are gonna get smashed sooner or later

 

[TimeLord]

Looks like a freaky sex toy.

I second this motion

 

[Xanadu84]

If Wii can be said with a straight face, then ANY name will quickly be commonly accepted. I mean seriously, they called the thing a euphemism for urination, "Gem" shouldn't turn too many heads for long. If Gem is the final name, it won't seem that weird for long. Hell, it is a kind of odd name, but its nothing too outlandish NOW.

 

[chenry]

Uhm, "Gem" is ridiculous? Is our collective-short-term memory so bad that we forgot how stupid "Wii" sounded?

And ffs, "wiimote"? That's just "remote" with a speech impediment.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Oookay...
*backs away slowly*

 

[Casual Shinji]

Heh, everybody here is to young to understand the "outragious" joke.

*sigh* Christ, I'm old.

 

[cyberherox]

not sure why there trying to do motion control i think they should stick with controlers thats what they do best right?

 

[Tron-tonian]

I heard it and thought of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jem_%28TV_series%29

 

[cobaltfram]

Gem? Oh my Gahd, hon, it sounds absolutely fabulous!

 

[Hithlain]

Um, I thought of this :

 

[JugglerPanda]

I heard it and thought of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jem_%28TV_series%29

That's the joke the article was making.
For those of you going "Gem isn't outrageous" that's because it isn't. It's a joke on the TV series. There were quotes all over the article that were part of the opening intro.

 

[WestMountain]

There are multipurposes with that controller for girls. Har-Har-Har

 

[MikeOfThunder]

Its like a really really short lightsaber...

 

[DangerousFat]

Seriously, I don't mind people being ignorant about an 80's cartoon aimed specifically for girls. I don't mind people posting that they don't know what it is. I don't mind people not reading every single post in a thread that goes on for 10+ pages (which this hasn't yet). But seriously people, the explanation is on the first page and there are still people posting that they don't get it. It's explained like three times on the first page. That's 35 short posts that you didn't bother to read through before you posted... fantastic job.

 

[ctrl-alt-postal]

Hey, you can plug two back to back for multipl......oh.....

Maybe they can follow the wii's lead, and call it the poo, as in "what is this sh-"

 

[ChocoFace]

Way better than sixaxis...HEY! Did you know that sixaxis is spelled the same way forward and backward?

I did!

Did you know that Naomi backwards is "I moan"?

did you know that pterodactyl backwards is lytcadoretp?

OT: i don't see how Gem is outrageous.