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Xbox Is Now Selling Little Hoodies For Your Controller

I know it's summer in Austrlaia, but you can now buy an official hoodie for your Xbox controller if you feel it's getting a little cold.

www.kotaku.com.au

If your Xbox controller has been looking a little cold lately (and it might be, the weather leading into the Australian summer has been a bit on the cool side this year), you can now nestle it in a little hoodie.

Yes, a hoodie. No, it’s controller-sized. It’s like a little set of pyjamas for your controller.

The Xbox controller hoodies are exactly what they say on the tin — a hoodie for your controller. They have a hood (obviously) for a head the controller does not have. They have little arm holes you can fit the handles into. They even have a zipper down the front, and they come in black or white. I’m surprised they don’t have that little pouch pocket at the front.

The hoodies are currently on the Xbox Gear Shop, and will run you about $AU57, which is dearer than most human-sized hoodies. They DO deliver to Australia but, of course, the Xbox controller hoodies are already sold out. This is because we’re trapped in 2022, where everything is sold in tiny allotments like we’re collecting sneakers.

Now usually Kotaku is nuts, and this is the kangaroo version so double so, but yes Microsoft is selling hoodie jackets for your Xbox controller to keep warm, for $25 each in USD. Here is an example from the Xbox store with controller inside,

Xbox Mini Controller Hoodie

It's the time of year where you may want to cozy up with a nice hoodie. This winter don't let your controllers feel left out with a mini controller hoodie. 100% Polyester mini hoodie that fits your Xbox Series X|S controller Sublimation print design Includes zipper and tiny arm holes for your...

gear.xbox.com

The site says that you will be pre-ordering if you buy now, and orders will ship in mid-February with no exact date given, instead there's a range. Hopefully this isn't another product delay...

Anyway, not really sure what the point of this is. You can't really use the controller this way, sure you can feel some of the buttons but you'll have parts of the coat in the way and for some people who go off touch it may throw them off, not to mention it may make you hard press or slip around. Trigger use will be interesting.

You can zip down the front but that's only going to help with the Start and select Back buttons at best.

It seems the only purpose of this really, is to put your controller in a coat and then stare at it like a child say "baby are you warm", or maybe you're a deranged gamer, and you get the white one and put it in the laundry with the wrong stuff and make it pink, and then you pretend that the controller is waiting for you in the bed room, it turns you on and you imagine the controller saying "I'm ready for beddy" and you start to undress it because you lost your mind and need to be locked in a looney cell with full padding.

Or maybe you just have it in the coat sitting next to the stockings and presents as the kids come and get their gifts on xmas. Then afterward you uh.. do nothing with it?

Seriously though, no idea who greenlit this idea it's basically wasting $25, not even a new born baby fresh out is going to fit in that hoodie so this is just a strange product all around, at least the Series X socks are usable as SOCKS, but I have no clue who thought this was a good idea. Watch it be Phil Spencer who greenlit the product and it was Matt Booty who came up with it.

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

This is fucking dumb.

I'll be getting 2 though for my son.

 

[pqueue]

fucking awesome, ordered 1 in the black.

just for shits and giggles.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Need one for my Elite.

 

[RoboFu]

That’s so stupid it’s awesome

 

[pqueue]

Anyway, not really sure what the point of this is. You can't really use the controller this way, sure you can feel some of the buttons but you'll have parts of the coat in the way and for some people who go off touch it may throw them off, not to mention it may make you hard press or slip around. Trigger use will be interesting.

For fun's sake. Everything does not have to have a purpose for you.

Seriously though, no idea who greenlit

Who the fuck cares. It is fun. It is no different than those idiots who go out and buy Funko Pops or whatever. The damn things are pointless. They cannot be played with and are just meant to sit there. Forever.

Watch it be Phil Spencer who greenlit the product and it was Matt Booty who came up with it.

Aw of course. Had to hit out at the top. How tired.
Companies have marketing dept as well as licensing groups that work with outside parties to make this stuff. Pretty sure no one at the C-level is even aware of this.

 

[alabtrosMyster]

Do they fit Dualshock controllers? They would sell more.

 

[hybrid_birth]

Thank you Microsoft for selling condoms to keep my joystick warm.

 

[Scotty W]

Check your pockets before putting your hands in- or you’re liable to catch a nibble from a green rat!

 

[Torrent of Pork]

This is very dumb, and I'm glad it exists even though I won't be buying it.

 

[Trogdor1123]

This is so stupid… I want PlayStation ones now…

 

[M1chl]

You can couch your baby since birth to be on the right side of the history.

 

[Fermbiz]

I need one for my beer

 

[Jennings]

This is so stupid… I want PlayStation ones now…

 

[WeAreVenom8659]

this is my kind of stupid
need

 

[MarkMe2525]

Ridiculous but cute.

 

[adamsapple]

I fuckin' knew it was gonna be an Eddie thread before even clicking it ..

 

[Topher]

Somewhere....... Riky is ordering 20 of them.

Miss ya bro!

 

[Jigsaah]

im gonna buy this just because it's a unique idea and I want people to take chances on new ideas

 

[GHG]

Making sure the controller stays warm in the long periods between first party game releases.

I see you Phil.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

Im gonna order some for my dualsenses, helping my gamepass truthers.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

They'll sell anything these days, sell outs.

I caved before I even started resisting, just pre-ordered two to give the kids as a surprise for XMAS. What am I doing with my life?

EDIT: delivery in Aus for March, oh well, surprise gift post XMAS, in time for daughter's bday.

 

[Celcius]

That’s how you make money - provide a solution to a problem people didn’t even know they had

 

[Pejo]

Who's gonna be the first to tweet Xbox a dick pick in a controller hoodie?

 

[Topher]

Who's gonna be the first to tweet Xbox a dick pick in a controller hoodie?

We have a dick pic specialist here at NeoGAF.

Rumor is Mod of War vetted him, but I'm not sure.

 

[LordBlodgett]

This is ridiculous, yet intriguing. What a weird idea

 

[LordCBH]

That's retarded.




I dig it lol

 

[Editaur]

I really wish this style of advertising will end already but let them eat cake.

 

[Syphon Filter]

seems corny.

 

[Iced Arcade]

Edit... Read that wrong lol dummy

 

[Punished Miku]

Thats impressively stupid.

 

[Captain Toad]

Just make some games.

Good grief. Halo cookbooks, doll clothes for controllers, console refrigerators.

Quite the management team.

 

[Warablo]

Sounded so stupid at first, then I saw the pics. I can understand why people are ordering them.

 

[poodaddy]

This is the dumbest shit I've ever seen. Fuckin idiotic man. No defending this.

Spoiler

Probably gonna buy one....at least

.

 

[Beechos]

What in the name of tesla is ms doing with all this weird ass shit. I love it lol. Now bring back the xbox onesie that was something that was at least practical. Also release the full size xbox fridge for sale as opposed to giving it away to influencers.

 

[bentanchorbolt]

That’s so stupid it’s awesome

This. I want to hate it but it’s cool in a really dumb way.

 

[SirTerry-T]

Just picking up the baton that Innocent Smoothies dropped ...

Innocent bottles sport woolly hats to help OAPs through winter

Smoothie brand Innocent has launched its annual Big Knit campaign to help older people by putting woollen hats on its bottles.

www.packagingnews.co.uk

Daft bit of fun for the Festive season.

Fun doesn't need to have a reason.

 

[Synless]

A fool and his money are soon parted…

 

[Gonpachiro Kamaboko]

I hope this starts a trend because it’s very cute

 

[plip.plop]

I feel like they got this idea from working with PepsiCo. Specifically KFC's marketing team from the YUM division. Remember all the weird crap they came out with.

 

[feynoob]

Just make some games.

Good grief. Halo cookbooks, doll clothes for controllers, console refrigerators.

Quite the management team.

What a fun killer.

 

[PuffyCan]

So stupid.. until I realize it can keep my cat from eating the joysticks, best invention ever!

 

[Moses85]

So stupid.. until I realize it can keep my cat from eating the joysticks, best invention ever!

What about make your cat a good friend with

Instead?

 

[PuffyCan]

What about make your cat a good friend with

Instead?

Seriously, if the price was lower, I would buy it without hesitation, one of my cats eats everything not protected,

 

[ahtlas7]

Don’t let Nintendo see this.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Peak capitalism.

 

[Griffon]

This is what happens when the marketing department is out of ideas.

 

[The_Mike]

Who's gonna be the first to tweet Xbox a dick pick in a controller hoodie?

Ezekiel_

 

[nemiroff]

It's stupid and I love it.

 

[Thebonehead]

Product Details
Please note that the initial batch of the mini controller hoodies has sold out, and the next batch will ship in mid-February.