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Is boob-shaped controller a clever gag ad, pie in the sky dream, or the future of gaming? 【Video】

Casey Baseel Jul 15, 2014
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While plenty of video games use busty female characters to try to spice up their gameplay and drum up sales, few are as unabashed and exuberant in their mammary motivations as Senran Kagura. The bosomy brainchild of producer Kenichiro Takaki, Senran Kagura is an action title centered on a group of young female ninja that lets players fight hordes of enemies while staring at oversized, under-supported breasts.

Recently, though, a new round of inspiration smacked Takaki in the face, as he realized that cramming his series full of prodigious chests is only half of the equation of letting people play games with big breasts.

So he set out to design a game controller shaped like a pair of boobs.

Takaki isn’t just the producer for Senran Kagura, he also claims to be in charge of an initiative called the Department of Hyper Enormous Boobage Development.

▼ Because for some people, regular enormous boobs just aren’t enough.

The first project the team is working on is a special controller shaped like Takaki’s favorite part of the female body.

▼ Of course you wear it on your head.

It’s called the Head Mount Pai Play (“Pai” being a shortened version of oppai, the Japanese word for “boobs”). To use it, first the disembodied pair of breasts has to be strapped to the wearer’s face like an Oculus Rift or Project Morpheus headset. Manipulating the breasts will then control the character’s on-screen movement.

The Pai Play of course also features vibration, which the video claims is synched to match up with the movement of the character’s chest.

Most high-tech of all is the claim that the headset can read your brain waves, and that if the wearer’s concentration level is high enough, it will send the character into a powered-up mode.

▼ You don’t need any fancy technological gizmo to know that this man is thinking about boobs, though.

According to the earnest researchers at the Department of Hyper Enormous Boobage Development, even non-gamers can enjoy the Pai Play, which can also function as an armrest or face pillow.

▼ Takaki himself seems content to cradle it on his crotch as he thinks about how his inventions could improve the lives of elderly couples.

As the video reaches its climax, though, we’re left with one nagging question, and it’s not “Why?” since the answer for that is pretty simple (dudes like boobs). Rather, we have to ask, just how serious is Takaki?

The presentation ends with the message that the Pai Play is still in the development phase, and that “some of the functions reflect the developer’s imagination.” For people who need their boob fix ASAP, the video then segues into an ad for the upcoming Senran Kagura 2 – Shinku, which is scheduled for release on the Nintendo 3DS early next month.

It’s also kind of hard to see how the controller would work in practical terms. While we suppose each breast could correspond to one digital pad or analog stick, most video game platforms work with controllers that also have a host of action buttons. The number of corresponding strokes, pats, and squeezes that’d be necessary to differentiate between them may be beyond even the active imaginations of the sort of person who’d attach a swimsuit model’s chest to his head in order to play some video games.

At the same time, it’s important to remember that Takaki is the creator of Senran Kagura, a series so fixated on female chests that a line of cell phone straps bearing the cast’s likenesses were designed to smell like boobs. If anyone is serious about turning the Pai Play into a reality, it’s this man.

Source: Kai-You, YouTube
Screenshots: YouTube