Microsoft's Moving Xbox Ad Was the Best Thing About the Super Bowl (cnet.com)

Mark Serrels, writing for CNET: Super Bowl 53 has come and gone and, for me at least, there was one clear highlight. This Microsoft commercial. [...] Essentially a commercial for Microsoft's Xbox Adaptive Controller, this ad follows up on an earlier ad from the Christmas period, which highlights young kids with limited mobility playing video games. It's incredible.

It tells the story of kids with limited mobility and their love for video games. All kids love video games and if you're a person with limited mobility, video games can often provide a pathway to experiences that are often difficult in the real world. But in some cases, particular types of limited mobility can make even the games themselves difficult to play -- which is where the Xbox Adaptive Controller comes in. Further reading: Xbox wire; and Why Xbox spent a year designing the Adaptive Controller packaging.

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Idiots

[Anonymous Coward]

This was an entertaining game dominated by the defenses of two really good football teams. I'm sorry that you dorks are incapable of appreciating that most people aren't enterained by World of Warcraft or stupid TV shows about space travel 300 years in the future.

Re:Idiots

[Anonymous Coward]

As if watching a bunch of muscle-heads fight over a ball is somehow a higher class of entertainment.

At least with video games, you are making the tactical decisions yourself.

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[Bite The Pillow]

This is not correct, highlights a very minority opinion, and belongs on the toilet paper of some insufferable blogger's tackily decorated rental mobile home.

Re:U.S. football damages lives.

[Kokuyo]

At least people care about football athletes. Try cheerleading if you really want to feel expendable.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Evil Micro$oft making their products available for children with disabilities, the nerve!!