Today's hottest game video: Official Wii commercial

by Zack Stern { Nov 16th 2006 at 12:05AM }

Nintendo's official 30-second version of our previously mentioned, two-minute Wii commercial is today's most-watched YouTube game video. This edit of the spot has slightly cleaner video and none of the random talking and laughing behind the longer bootleg cut.

This video shatters previous most-watched game video scores. Daily winners usually chart between 20,000-60,000 views; the Wii commercial? It's been viewed 670,000 times -- and counting -- making it the most watched video anywhere on YouTube. The Wii is even better than sex; the number-two video of the site is called "My First Video Blog... (Striptease Included)." (Note that like an actual striptease, this video doesn't deliver on its promise. Yes, we watched.)

Nintendo unfortunately disabled our ability to embed the video. Catch it directly at YouTube.

Tags: ad, commercial, hottest video, HottestVideo, spot

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

fawazr @ Nov 16th 2006 12:25AM

at least it's memorable.

DG @ Nov 16th 2006 12:26AM

Very cool commercial. I love the music.

FetusMan @ Nov 16th 2006 12:27AM

THIRD COMMENT

Ritz @ Nov 16th 2006 12:27AM

Omg, YouTube is being bias towards Nintendo AGAIN.

Random Insanity @ Nov 16th 2006 12:33AM

Interesting comments: ^_^

titogderas (2 minutes ago)
OH MY GOD DO U NEED A PLASMA TV IN ORDER TO PLAY Wii

ps3warlord (3 minutes ago)
wii owns and PS3 owns, Xbox 360 sucks !!! and you xbox fanboy who don't like PS3 will regret the day that you won't be able to play GTA4

titogderas (4 minutes ago)
WTF I WAS LOOKING AT THE CONTROL FOR THE Wii AND I SEEN THIS THING FOR THE TV DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHAT THATS FOR? AND IF U NEED IT

Riemann Lebesgue @ Nov 16th 2006 12:39AM

RI, someone should tell ps3warlord that GTA4 is coming out for the 360 too.

Lone Starr @ Nov 16th 2006 12:50AM

Yoshida Brothers are amazing!! Go buy their CDs.

Mitsuo @ Nov 16th 2006 1:05AM

Lebesgue. I read some one did flame him out for it. Quite funny.

Frexy @ Nov 16th 2006 4:39AM

That movie was featured on the front page of YouTube, no wonder it got that much attention... :)

FuzzyPickles @ Nov 16th 2006 7:27AM

Many movies are featured on the front page of YouTube every day... but they don't beat out stripteases. Must be part of that "buzz" we're all hearing about.

Anyway, it's far from the best commercial in the world, but at least it doesn't insult my intelligence like the PS3 spots do. It shows game clips and shows people using the controller, having fun. The one sentence of speech is simply "we would like to play" or whatever he said. No pretentious dribble about the next generation or new generation or revolution or anything. No puzzling imagery. Just games.

The Cell can solve a Rubik's cube in a second. The JVM on my old-ass PC can print out the solution to any cube instantly with the right program (spoiler: JVMs slow everything down A LOT). Wow, good job of showing your superiority.

shivr @ Nov 16th 2006 8:56AM

I think it's pretty cute, nice music too. Why didn't the girl get to play though? :(

some interesting items:

-all the games being played seemed to be one player, with one guy playing the game and the others standing around him (emotional support?)

-all the games being played (red steel, zelda, metroid prime 3) were of the "hardcore" veriety. No wii sports or raving rabbids or monkey balls here.

So I guess this is more of a 'hardcore' commercial? Though still done in the spirit of fun and community, no solitary guys jumping over thier couches in dark rooms playing red steel :)

I like the ps3 commercials too, at least the rubix and the crow ones. They're strange and arty, but present an entirely different image than the 360's "jump in" set, despite both systems' similar game line-ups. PS3 is being marketed for sophisticated technophiles, 360 for 20-something cool kids looking for large scale rucus with strangers and friends, and Wii for a more intimate, real time fun with a small group of friends. Amazing how while only one out of three of the launch commercial sets actually features games, each one is carefully tailored to it's target audience.